Should USPA Adopt a New Wingsuit BSR ?

[PhreeZone 20]

I'm out of my arm Wings faster then I can get my camera wings off on video jumps. Zip, zip. About that fast on the arms. Wingsuit pilots tend to be just getting under canopy as the second or third group is landing. They are usually only in the air with other Wingsuits, tandems and CRW. Rarely students, but thats easy to avoid.

Glad to see I'll get such a warm reception when I come to SDC with my wingsuits

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[JamesNahikian 0]

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Glad to see I'll get such a warm reception when I come to SDC with my wingsuits

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D. James Nahikian
CHICAGO

[diverdriver 7]

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I'm out of my arm Wings faster then I can get my camera wings off on video jumps. Zip, zip. About that fast on the arms. Wingsuit pilots tend to be just getting under canopy as the second or third group is landing. They are usually only in the air with other Wingsuits, tandems and CRW. Rarely students, but thats easy to avoid.

Glad to see I'll get such a warm reception when I come to SDC with my wingsuits

Back it up Phree! He does NOT represent SDC. I don't believe he has a home DZ listed in his profile. Just because he lists Chicago does not mean he always jumps at SDC.

I know Missy and Rook are going to be having a lot more wingsuits at SDC this summer. I've been talking with the other pilots to come up with procedures and flight patterns to handle them. I look forward to seeing you this summer and getting your input too.

[PhreeZone 20]

I'm looking forward to flying over SDC and the river with my suit. Might even be able to loan out the second suit to a pilot if he's not flying...

I think that instead of writing rules, a little education can go a long ways on what and how wingsuit operations take place. I'm frequently the only one left inthe air on Solo wingsuit flights because by the time I get back to the DZ and pull the Tandems are at 3500 or less and their videographers are under 2k and headed home fast.

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[VectorBoy 0]

A wingsuit flyer has more to deal with under canopy, especially under a canopy with the line twists that are not uncommon to novice wingsuit flyers. Canopy collision with a non-wingsuit flyer, "oops I needed to free my arms."

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You are very correct in the first part of your reply. This is why wingsuit novices must fly a docile or at least predictable main. And as novices we MUST pull higher than a regular jump. This is not safe under a regular jump run. But in wingsuits we are not falling under a jump run. We navigate several thousand feet or up to some miles from the jump run and navigate back ( when done properly ) to a deployment location that allows deploying high. So there will not be any regular jumpers to collide with. Like I said before some DZs even have wingsuit operating areas away from regular jumpers and any jump run.
Its like AFF all over again in the saddle around 5 grand but still deploying offset from any jump run. Even a bad wingsuit pilot will get enough separation after break off from others in the flock.
To follow up on the last bit of your statement wingsuits have a few seconds of added workload post opening. All wingsuiters can still reach a riser and turn the canopy away from traffic if need be with wings on. We can fly to and deploy in an area with no other canopy traffic than our own group and the ability to get excellent separation from those in our group at breakoff.

Do you have knowledge of a specific incident that you can share?

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