A Negative G exit video! Was I the first?

[kevin922 0]

Ok guys. This weekend I pulled off an exit i've been dreaming about doing for a while now. Here @ Skydive orange I talked with the pilot and we did a Negative G exit. Basically I was on my hands and knees in the door he did a negative G (i floated in the plane) and pushed myself outside the plane. I know it was dangerous, and I probably wont' do it again unless i brainstormed some more on the safety of it. Has anyone else out there done this or seen it done? Check out the video!
http://www.interone.net/negg.html
Let me know what you think. Sorry for the poor quality, not sure why the export was so bad.

[freeflir29 0]

Why the hell does everybody have to use Quick Time! I don't have it on my computer at work!
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

Well what format can i export for your viewing pleasure? Real Media?

[freeflir29 0]

Anything that will play on Real Player 7, the Win NT version.
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

Ok - here is the video in .wmv format - should be viewable in Windows Media Viewer. Let me know what other format you want.
And I can't attach it, it's too big. find it at http://www.interone.net/vid/negg.wmv

[freeflir29 0]

OK....the audio sounds great but all I got was 3 still pics one of your arm and then two of the inside of the aircraft. Not really any video to speak of. Man...this techno shit gets difficult don't it. "There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

Humm.. not having any problems here.. Sorry to hear that - it's a cool video :)

[freeflir29 0]

Aren't I a pain in the ass....
I can see that it's an Otter. Yep, you betcha that is dangerous. Can you say "Strike the horizontal stab" kids? Negative G exits are well and good in something with a ramp but you are flirting with disaster going out the side. But hey! Ya lived right?
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

Yeah I know.. i still think there is a safer way to do it.. maybe as soon as i push out he can do an opposite bank turn or something
But hey - they said it was crazy to jump out of a perfectly good airplane to begin with.. :)
Would be bad ass in a casa, though I don't know how well it would work when you have nothing to push against.

[freeflir29 0]

"I don't know how well it would work when you have nothing to push against."
Yeah....someone was just tellin me of tryin to launch a raft with a negative G exit. The raft went out great but he and another guy ended up "stuck" to the ceiling.....LMAO
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

Lol.. guess there is no way to track while in a negative G environment.

[PhreeZone 20]

"The raft went out great but he and another guy ended up "stuck" to the ceiling"
Please.... I've had a whole raft get stuck on the roof of a CASA. That included the 3 people in it and the 5 on the outside. We were up there long enough to allow me to look up at the cockpit exchange shurgs with the copilot, look back at the raft and drop my grip on the ropes and grab the raft material. About that time the copilot slow added some G's to get us down and we all landed about 4 feet back inside the casa. I got up, looked at the people in the raft, made sure everyone was ok then called off the 0-G lift the pilot was trying to throw at us. It was an interesting dive, my Bonehead now has a paint streak from the door, Wildblue broke a Digitude hitting someones helment or the door, we pulled the raft out and it was rock solid, but even with its own pass we still did'nt have the raft land on the DZ......
A rainy day at the DZ is better then a Sunny day at work

[chopchop 0]

That was pretty f*cking cool. Scary but cool.
chopchop
PD makes canopies all day long, you only have one life, when in doubt, cut away...

[fonz 0]

kevin922> Well what format can i export for your viewing pleasure?
If y'ask me: mpeg.
Alphons

[kevin922 0]

Okay here is a run down of the files:
http://www.interone.net/negg.html
http://www.interone.net/vid/negg.wmv
http://www.interone.net/vid/negg.mpg
Not hearing much feedback on the video..

[wildblue 7]

hehe... that sucked.
Cost me $45 to get it fixed too!
Then, I saw these two guys swoopin across the pond, and I was like 'weeeeeee!!!!'

[kevin922 0]

45 bucks to get it fixed? whut?

[freeflir29 0]

Holy SHIT! Dude you notice how close your hand was to that horizontal stab? BTW, The MPEG works like a big dog!
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[kevin922 0]

It wasn't as close as it looks in the video.. I was a good 5 - 8 feet from it :) The video quality sucks on those net files.

[freeflir29 0]

"The video quality sucks on those net files."
Nahh, not at all. The MPEG worked really well. It's as good as most online clips I have seen. Besides, really good quality stuff eats up mega bandwidth. Look at some of the stuff on headdown.net. I'm on corporate LAN and some of those things take 15 or 20 minutes to download. Like 30-40 meg or so.
"There once was a man named Enis....."-Krusty the Clown
Clay

[wildblue 7]

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45 bucks to get it fixed? whut?

Eh? Sorry... should have quoted. My digitude that got busted on the jump he was talking about.
Then, I saw these two guys swoopin across the pond, and I was like 'weeeeeee!!!!'

[PhreeZone 20]

Being on a LAN has nothing to do with download speeds from the net. I've set up LAN's that have a frame-relay ISDN line that are only capible of 25-45 kbps and then again I've setup a LAN that had multiple DS3 lines that were being routed over gigabit switches on a fiber network.I was consistantly getting 55-75 mbps on that one at peak usage. (I loved surfing the net from that one) The LAN just means you get fast internal transfers, it has nothing to do with external speeds.
A rainy day at the DZ is better then a Sunny day at work

[RemiAndKaren 0]

Phree said:
BLA BLA BLA mbps BLA BLA BLA gigabit BLA BLA BLA fiber BLA BLA BLA DS3 BLA BLABLA.....
geek...
Remi
Muff 914

[Aviatrr 0]

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Phree said:
BLA BLA BLA mbps BLA BLA BLA gigabit BLA BLA BLA fiber BLA BLA BLA DS3 BLA BLABLA.....

Damn.....you got more out of that post than I did.. Mike

[billvon 3,085]

>Yeah I know.. i still think there is a safer way to do it.. maybe as soon as i push out he can do an opposite bank
>turn or something
Banking in zero-G does not move the plane, just rotates it along its roll axis. Probably the safest thing to do would be to go back to normal flight as soon as you left the door. Alternatively, use a plane that has better clearance between the door and the horizontal stab.
>Lol.. guess there is no way to track while in a negative G environment.
You're not in a negative-G environment, only the plane is. As soon as you hit the air, nothing is unusual about body flight. (Unless, of course, the plane manages to put its horizontal stab in your way.)
-bill von