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I'm sorry, I can't understand what you're saying. You've lost me. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's actually called Daylight Saving (no "s") Time. But yes, it is awesome for all the reasons you listed and more. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I heard it's going to be run by robots. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Maybe one, but unlikely. I hope to get there with just enough time to set up tent before sunset. I'll see what I can do, but you should have plenty of people to jump with. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

They break as often as you bend them too far. Your post, and another before yours seem to assume that the ribs have a "time limit" before they break. That's not true. Having ribs just means you have to be more careful with your suit, particularly when packing your rig, storing the suit, and even sitting on the plane in some cases. I am not a big fan of ribs and wouldn't want them in my suit because I don't want to have to worry about breaking them all the time. When I pack the suit gets squashed all up under my rig, and at the end of the day I squash it all up in my gearbag. But that's just my preference. Plastic is plastic. It will break if you deform it past a certain point, not after a certain # of jumps. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Morpheus, I'd imagine. I haven't heard any numbers yet. I'll be on the DZ before sunset Thursday night, hopefully.

I am not sure what "M1.4 x 1.4" is, but here are some similarly priced (though slightly cheaper) M1.4 variants on microfasteners.com. The price is not necessarily unreasonable. I doubt it's cheap to make a screw that tiny and precise. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Well we are in agreement on this.

Wow, now THAT is cool Cookie. What is total thickness? Looks to be the thinnest one I've seen yet! (remember the Mass Madness tent @ WFFC? ) www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That experiment would determine precision more than accuracy (these are different things). Any measurement device has a range of error. If you understand this and can interpret the data, the device is useful. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Cool video, man.

Pricegrabber.com has a rating system built into the search engine for vendors. You can find the lowest prices coupled with honest vendors through that method. Beach camera always seems to have fairly low prices. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yes, the heavier flyer will move faster downward AND foward. A faster forward speed means more ground covered in a given time. Think about canopies (also gliders). A highly loaded canopy, in zero winds, full flight, has a higher forward speed AND descent rate than a lightly loaded canopy. High speed means more distance in a given time. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That is simply wrong. Bricks fall faster than feathers. Wingsuits are, at heart, gliders. With many control surfaces, but still gliders. A heavy glider will glide faster than a light glider. A glider full of bricks will move faster than a glider full of feathers. Both can glide the same distance, but if you design the race around "most distance covered in x seconds", the glider full of bricks will always win. This is very basic aerodynamic fact. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I do not understand this logic at all. In a fixed amount of time, a heavy person will always be able to cover more ground than a light person (assuming each can track the same glideslope). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

We had a great weekend at Zhills... a couple people already showing up for Flock & Dock and we had our own "mini boogie". Darren and Richard from UK are already here, along with myself, Scott Bland, Cancer Chris, Omar, Jeff, Mark, Ryan newly transported from Lake Wales, and the newer bird Dennis all had some great jumps together. Here are some pictures from the weekend. #13 was taken by Darren as I was taking #12. The sunstar you see in #12 was blinding me, which is responsible for the squinty-eyed face I am making, which makes me look like a crying clown (the tongue switch is responsible for the weird mouth). Darren, Omar, and I laughed at this picture for a solid 5 minutes... See you all on Thursday! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

His username on here is "tonyhathaway" and he has posted feedback on the helmet, on these very forums. CLICK There aren't a LOT of people using them so I guess feedback is harder to find. I am going to try to build myself one soon. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Fiberglass is a composite... Composite = fibers + matrix. The fibers can be glass fibers, carbon fibers, or many other things... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

This "4-way" is getting pretty big... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That wording is confusing. Does it mean you need to do "rigger work" 90 days per year? I don't even SKYDIVE that often! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

$730 from Beach Camera, shipped, minus the rebate is a nice $630. I paid $800 just a month ago, but oh well, I would have missed some cool picture opportunities if I didn't have the camera now. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Understatement. 10, 9, 8, 7 days remaining! Mike, you're just not happy unless you make 10 jumps a day, are you? Normally you could count me in for the night jump, but I am sure I will not be up for it on Saturday. Plus I don't think I'm ready to do a night jump on my new canopy yet. But I bet you will find enough for a small group. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Thanks. My interest in it is not based on money, but on having personal accountability for what is on my back. It would be satisfying for me to know I packed my own reserve. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Tom, I've heard an opposite opinion expressed by some riggers, in regards to someone getting a rigging certificate just to pack his own shit (I am somewhat interested in this myself, but have not found the TIME to go through the process). I have been told by several riggers that there is a "currency" factor to consider in packing reserves, just like in jumping. According to this logic, if I am only packing 3 reserves a year (my own), I am probably "rusty" every time I do it and am therefore not making phenomenal packjobs, or worse, am likely to forget an important step. What is your opinion on this? Valid concern, or are these riggers just trying to protect their trade? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I do not agree. The whole load went unstable on exit. The only two pilots who were using the leg pouch, Mike and I, had the premature, go figure. Nick, I think you misunderstood me, because from what you say we are in agreement. When I said "almost every flyer on the load", I meant that almost every flyer on the load went unstable (even those who didn't have prematures). I know you and Mike were the only two using the pouches, and the only two with prematures (and I do believe those are correlated), but I guess I did not specify that in my post, my bad. My post was intended to put forth the opinion that it was the instability (primarily) in combination with the high speed (secondarily) that did not mix well with the pouch. My response to the original poster was saying that even if the leg pouch was rotated 180 degrees (facing "up" instead of "down", as it appears to be in the picture he posted of the "mystery suit") it would still have caused you and Mike problems on that exit. Do you agree with this? I was saying that it is the construction and location of the pouch (rather than the orientation) that was responsible for the premature. I do not think that a stable high speed exit would cause any problems for the leg pouch, but going unstable is certainly a bad thing with that much relative wind hitting you... www.WingsuitPhotos.com