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I am pretty sure he does.

Nice video Marko! You really get around.

A Skyflyer3 (or 6), on the other hand, might still be a lot of fun! Probably the suit that brings me the best memories. But I'd still recommend at least 50 jumps in a smaller suit first, even if that is ultra conservative by today's standards. EDIT: This one is definitely not a stock S1. Says it's a custom Robi build and looks closer to an S3, but still different. I think I count 5 leg cells, and I think the S3 only has 4. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Man that legwing looks tiny (narrow) compared to any modern suit... www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Which suit do you wear when carving around rodeos? Couldn't tell even from that outside shot on the second one... though it was a killer shot! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's important we clarify our measurement standard. In my posts, I was referring to the measurement from PC to pin. Not sure if anyone else was referring to an alternate measurement standard (for example, PC to bag). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

With any suit, and any rig, the longer bridle is the most important modification, and the only one needed. Also, how much you need a longer bridle depends how long your current bridle is. If it's 6', you really need a longer one. If it's 7.5', then you have a "less urgent" need for a longer one. 9' is ideal though. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

If we're playing tricky questions, we should at least interpret them at face value. The question asked was not "what would you check?" It was "what items are most important?" If I deem something as "not the most important," that is not equivalent to saying "I would not check it." I check all sorts of unimportant things as a matter of routine on every skydive. The most important thing to do on every skydive is to pull, but that doesn't mean that is the only thing I do in the whole jump.

Which post # did Kallend say any of those things? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I can't believe I'm playing this game, but here we go: Post #57, you called the smartest guy in this thread an "utter idiot." (smartest in terms of aerodynamic principles... don't let that go to your head too much professor ) Please show us which post number before #57 where he insulted you. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's got electrolytes. And, I think "footfinger" would be better than fingerleg. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

For those who aren't on Facebook, here is my video from the Wingsuit World Record event in Perris this September. Three ways to watch! my site | youtubes | facebook (public link, no account needed) Enjoy! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Yup, it has nothing to do with a wingsuit. People have been doing high (and low) hop n pops, which equate to short freefalls and long canopy rides, long before wingsuits came around. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Even easier. I start my dive at 12pm. I start my flare at 12:01pm. My flare causes me to travel upward from 12:01pm to 12:01:30pm. Question: Between 12:01pm and 12:01:30pm, did I (a) gain altitude (b) lose altitude or (c) stay level? Multiple guess... that should make this extremely difficult question a bit easier.

For once your words speak very clearly. You are making what you believe is an educated guess, but you have no experience flying wingsuits, and are arguing with those who do have such experience. Question: at what angle dive must one fly a wingsuit before he is able to do a 6 second climb? Since you can judge with your eyes, you must know. Next question: at what angle dive was the pilot in the video diving? Final, and most important question: on WHAT are you basing these previous answers? Surely you are probably qualified to watch one of the glider type that you fly, and judge with your eyes what sort of climb is possible based on the angle of the dive. But wingsuits are extremely different from the glider types you fly, you have never flown a wingsuit, and you haven't seen many videos like the one posted, because... let's face it... NONE of us have! Most BASE videos are taken from the pilot's perspective or from a fixed point close to the line of flight, which the pilot zooms by. This video shows something I had never seen before (maybe others have). There is very limited data out there for those of us who haven't been in these pilots' shoes (one reason for all the arguments), and yet you think you can judge a video of something you've never done, conclude that you "think" the video showed not a dive/flare but a thermal, and then argue for pages about how what you "thought" must be right, and everyone else is an idiot for thinking otherwise. I don't think that seems very logical. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

In other words, it had nothing to do with thermals. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've heard that the next generation of passenger jets will not have engines, since they've also learned that climbing is accomplished not through airspeed, but through going slower and riding thermals. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Lurch, not one single person in this thread has claimed it isn't possible. There have been two posters, however (one being me) who have pointed out that the camera angle shown does not make it clear what is happening on those specific jumps. That is neither heckling nor hating... it's just being objective. I don't know whether the pilots in those videos are climbing or not. It's impossible to tell. I'd love to see a camera angle which is level on all axes (there a few ways to accomplish this, one of the easiest is to get the horizon in frame), and a flight trajectory which is normal to the LOS of the camera (this is harder to prove, but "close enough" would probably be good enough). Unfortunately, when the camera is pointed at a mountain or a valley, and the pilot is carving hard away from the camera, you cannot accurately judge glide angle from the way the video appears. I have seen tons of BASE jumping videos, shot with long lenses, of dudes in tracking suits that appear to be going straight up like a rocket. Actually, if you could execute one of your climbs as you pass the edge of a puffy, looking straight at the puffy (to your side), such that as you get to the edge of it, the horizon comes into view... parallax would make it very clear whether you're ascending or descending at that point... just look whether the cloud appears to be moving up or down relative to the horizon in the distance. No fancy GPS needed, just a video camera and a puffy. Only problem with that idea is that clouds do not sit perfectly still. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I don't doubt that it's possible, and that video is more convincing than others I've seen, but it's still not a perfectly objective perspective. Parallax through a long zoom lens can do some really funny things. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Do you have a lot more jumps than the 1200 your profile says, or have you really logged 48 hours in that many jumps? That would be an average of 2.4 minutes per jump. I know I just hit 24 hours myself with a little shy of 1100 jumps, which is an average of around 80 seconds per jump (this includes 200 pre-wingsuit jumps, the occasional freefly, and lots of 90-100 second flocks, I'd imagine). www.WingsuitPhotos.com

It's not a matter of belief or disbelief, because it is a simple fact. The open source movement is huge. People do it to help out both themselves and others, and because they enjoy it. Really. EDIT: And sometimes, there is a benefit to the software dev other than cash money, such as data mining possibilities or advertising, as some posts here have alluded to. Hard to say if that is the case here or not. Still, those things are usually preferable to paying cash money. That's why we all use Google, and dropzone.com, brought to you by advertising and data mining.

Or he could ARP poison his own network and get packets headed for the other device that way... I think.

Wow, I never knew the GN had a barometric altimeter. Crazy. I wonder what motivated them to do that? I have the previous Nexus phone which does not have that feature. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

What wingsuits do you fly, and how long is your "standard" bridle? I agree that most mods are not needed... but a proper length bridle is essential, and a "standard length" bridle varies from manufacturer and even rig to rig... I've seen some that are 6' and some that are 7'. For many larger suits, either of those are too short, but the 6' is WAY too short. On a SM1 (not the largest suit anymore) I experienced significant delays for many jumps, with a 6' bridle. Changing to a 9' bridle fixed that immediately. I don't know what my PC was doing during those delays, but would not have been happy had it decided to land on my head after getting tired of burble dancing. At best, a too-short bridle is annoying, at worst, it is a recipe for PC in tow or worse. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I'm having a really hard time understanding exactly what was done in that video. I'm less sure what the first part (before all the text) is showing, but even the second part leaves me with a few questions. Is it more clear to anything else? The idea seems good, just not described fully. www.WingsuitPhotos.com