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On that regard I think the article just used bad wording. What I understand is that on proximity flying the jumpers are not flying the wingsuits to their limit, precisely because they need that margin to bail out. "Not flying to the limit" can be (erroneously) reworded to "fly the suit very badly".

Exactly! Besides that, like others said, I bet she can work a lot on her body position. Last summer I jumped with a girl shorter than 5 feet and around 100lb as well. I am 5'10'' and around 166lb, and used a competition RW suit. Matching fall rate was not comfortable, but was definitely doable. Another guy came with us in a freefly suit and he couldn't keep up, he sinked like a stone. Similarly, later that year, I was jumping with a friend, a little bit heavier than 100lb, around 5'8''. We were freeflying and matching her was quite difficult for me. She took off the suit, put some tight jeans and a tight t-shirt and everything was perfect. Weight should be the last resort. And at 25 jumps considering big ways should be out of the question..

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I've heard of a skydiver hitting a bird during the latest stage of the freefall somewhere in Belgium or Germany. It was a small bird, that hit on the visor of the helmet, breaking it and it caused some injury to the skydiver. Not life threatening, but definitely not nice (a black eye and cheek bone broken I think).

Guy A calls out (in dz.com) guy B that cares more about looking cool than knowing his shit and paying attention to the dive. Guy C tells guy A that he is envious of guy B's mad skillz and coolness. Thread drifts to personal attacks. Business as usual

The screw protrudes about 4mm. I didn't pay too much attention to it, since a hit hard enough to cause me problems with the screw will cause me problems anyway. But I agree that minimizing the risk is a good idea. It is easy to create a filling with the polycaprolactone, and I think I'll do it, so the screw doesn't protrude anymore and the hit will be distributed in a larger surface. Thanks for the feedback!

I've made a custom setup for my G3 and my AZ1VR. I though somebody could be interested, even though it looks like I am the only one concerned by most camera mounts on FF helmets. It includes cutaway (I know it is not very effective on FF helmets, but getting rid of the strap helps to remove the helmet), and a snag-resistant homemade mount. I thought somebody here might find it interesting. The mount was made with polycaprolactone. The cutaway handle is the one from the skyshot evo. Let me know what you think. http://imgur.com/a/Y10Jj

1.1 is already significant. In that case I would suggest you to go for something similar in size, possibly even bigger, but not student gear. But of course finding something cheap, that can accommodate your size, might not be easy..... So if you are not willing to spend more money this might be your best option. Anyway, please talk to your instructors/rigger. They should know what is better for you.

Looks like a bad idea to me. PdF (the maker of the Atom rigs) will quit the sport skydiving business soon, so if you ever need any kind of customer service, spare parts, whatever, you might have a hard time finding it. Besides that, unless you are heavy and very conservative, a NA 220 won't be that fun and will restrict you in slightly windy conditions, as you'll be too "floaty". What will be your wingload on it? I don't think the price is bad, but I do think you'll be looking for something else soon, and selling the rig to get some of your money back will be complicated. It looks safe though, if everything is in good condition. Bottom line is that this is student gear, and I would say that you are better with beginner gear, not student gear. But of course it also depends on what are your targets on the sport. If you are going to make 20 jumps per year then go for it. If you are going to make 200 jumps per year avoid it. Disclaimer: I have slightly more than 200 jumps, so you should listen to somebody with more experience, especially the ones that you know in person and can be trusted.

Exactly. To elaborate a bit more on my reply before. You can sew a loop like this one: http://www.rigginginnovations.com/App_Themes/Curv/images/Container/SliderStow2.jpg Then, with any standard magnetic slider keeper, like skysystems' skytie, you can just cut the elastic and sew some velcro, and put that velcro around the loop. That way the keeper will not interfere with the reserve flap, and in the unlikely event of an entanglement with the keeper during a cutaway, the velcro should release from the loop and leave. Just don't sew the loop too tight and don't double-mate the velcro, as this would require too much force to release.

Without more data (containers and canopy sizes) and without seeing the packing I wouldn't give this too much credit. Disclaimer: I have a wings. Last year I pulled my reserve for repack and the RPC came out barely a meter. This year I did the same and it hit the wall that was like 2 meters away. I think how stuffed is your container and how you fold your bridle can affect the RPC launching.

I'll do it just as the guys from RI on the Curv. I have a repack this weekend and I plan to ask my rigger to sew a loop close to the binding tape. I had a loop sewed lower before, and it was too low for keeping the slider stowed, it came out all the time.

Which is precisely what he is going to do.

Isn't this true as well for just looking at the altimeter? What I mean is that convincing them that this is something that they should do is easy. But making them develop the perceptional awareness is something different. On that sense watching the video of the double cypres fire might be more effective, after watching it I assume they'll pay more attention to their real task (survive), I believe.

This video opens a question to me. How do you make people that can't be bothered to look at their altimeters to pay attention to subtle temperature changes and light properties?

That's a pretty good question. I imagine it wouldn't be possible to wrap around the elastic, thanks to the net, but if the bridle extends too much after the red line the net might not be enough, and the loop will be trapped (pun intended) around the net, blocked by the bridle stiffener and fabric. If that happens the RPC might not be able to pull the free bag, since the bridle might be trapped, and the main might not leave. It would be some sort of tension knot between the MARD loop and the reserve bridle, with a little bit of horseshoe. Am I missanalyzing something? As somebody else suggested, why not using a pocket?

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I've seen that video before. Actually this is the video that convinced me to change my reserve. I have a Wings W11, and before I had a Tempo 170 on it. Pulling it out on the ground was not a problem, pulling with one arm, the rig lifted half an inch before letting go the freebag. But for peace of mind I change it for an Speed 170. It looks much better, and top of the reserve tray is not tight by any means.

I wouldn't wait to see if it breaks again. Find the reason now. If it breaks while on the door or jumping you'll be in a very serious trouble. Being said that, it looks like the loop quality was not the best. A loop has to hold MUCH more than 6 jumps, no matter how you close it or pull out the pull up cord.

You are probably right. But probably it is still a bad idea Based on what? Have you only heard that? Great advice! Based on the fact that x-braced canopies tend to spin on you easily, combined with the fact that with a wingsuit is easier (not easy, that depends on skills, but easier) to have a bad body position. Combine these two things with an extra fact, that is that your movement is highly restricted until you open the zips or use the suit cutaways. Then you have a mix of facts that result in using x-braced canopies or highly elliptical ones with wingsuits being a bad idea. That doesn't mean is not doable.

Any chance you are going to SC'14?

Things to consider for the wings: The top reserve flap makes the reserve tray quite "enclosing". I wouldn't overstuff it. (I have a wings and I changed the reserve just for that reason). Things to consider for the icon: The riser covers open quite frequently and easily. Maybe they solved it on the nexgen or with the magnetic riser covers. The hip ring on the icon is lower than the junction of the MLW (the leg straps attach to the ring at two points). The hip ring on the wings is right on the MLW junction (the leg strap is attached at a single point). I find the later better, but this is highly dependable on your body and preference. The icon has a MARD with collins lanyard. The wings has a MARD without it. But maybe you don't care about any MARD. In the icon the AAD cutter is above the freebag, in the wings is at the bottom of the freebag tray. The icon allows an easy installation of a skytie, the wings doesn't. At the end it depends on your preferences, IMHO both are very good and capable containers.

You are probably right. But probably it is still a bad idea

It can be way higher than 50%, see my post above.

There was an article in dz.com about that. This is the website: http://www.dropzone.com/gear/articles/Reversedvs.Non-ReversedR.shtml For some reason it doesn't work right now, but you can check out google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mGI5z89aa64J:www.dropzone.com/gear/articles/Reversedvs.Non-ReversedR.shtml+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de&lr=lang_de%7Clang_en%7Clang_es