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sorry leroy....i have seriously doubts on this. I am beyond "doubt" on that one. I'll give $100 to the human being who can sustain a 20mph fallrate in a S.U.I.T. And Leroy, I already said twice that it was the forward speed the GTi pilot had trouble with. Yes, yes, yes, it is simple to fly a GTi in the 50's or 40's, vertically. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Link to the forum? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I can't believe the guy singing is the same guy from Requiem for a Dream! You should try flying cleaner. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Buried pierre3636 Some of us get the picture, Zach. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Then aren't you saying exactly the same thing I was saying? At the moment, there are only a few jumps/groups where people would truly need to fly max in a high performance suit. As I said above, if you are wearing a GTi, and flying with a flock that is beyond the range of your suit, it does not fix the situation to say to yourself: "90% of the time I'd be ok!" www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I have to agree about Classic being ok for 90% flocks. Mine was flying at 45mph averages. You cut off my quote... I specifically said (right after the fallrate part) that the forward speed was the part that the GTi flyer could barely keep up with. Look at his legs in the picture... there is no more forward speed to be gleaned from that suit. Being ok for 90% flocks is worthless when you are flying in the other 10%. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Are you talking to me or Glen? Glen doesn't have Z-Flock photos. And I never claimed 90% of the jumps needed a high-performance suit. Just pointed out one specific jump where it would have helped a lot to have one. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

That statement just isn't true anymore hero, at least not out here. True... to reference 3.0's 9-way diamond yet again... Harry Parker (yellow/red) was wearing a GTi with armwing gripper/extensions and was giving it ALL he had. He was LAID OUT and still kept falling behind at times, and he is a very good flyer and a good build. I didn't think the flock felt particularly hard, but I checked my Neptune graph later on and we were averaging between 55 and 60mph... and had a decent forward speed too (the part Harry had a hard time with). Scott Bland (our base) was not even intending to make this a "faster flock"... it felt normal for most of us. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Then again, Jeff flies his almost exclusively, even in flocks, and he is not a heavy guy. It's true that flying dirty sucks, but having extra range (or "pop" for us Americans) available to you is nice. We'll see how often I fly mine once I get used to it. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

In his defense, he says he's looking for a intermediate wingsuit and would like a Phantom... but will also consider an S3. So he's not exactly saying S3=intermediate. But the wording is a bit vague. If he has the Prodigy wired he should be fine with the S3. But in principle I agree with you, the S3 is not an intermediate suit, but then again when you consider suits like the GS1 and Mach 1, it's not the most advanced, difficult to fly suit either. I'd say it's somewhere between middle and top of the line, as far as ease-of-flyability goes. So just slightly above intermediate. I put 75 jumps on a GTi before buying my S3, which I still love 400 flights later. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Ok. And I agree it would be nice to see "narrow" cams again with the advent of solid state... even though I currently have no need for a side-mount setup, the option would be nice. But really, it wasn't the DV format that made "narrow" cams go away, since the old narrow cams were DV. Hopefully the new cameras are less "square" than the HC HDV series. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

By "storing the data" are you referring to the recording process, or archival data? Because HDD and DVD are great for archives. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Me neither! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

At the Hog Flop a few years ago somebody got his hand tangled in the rope after everybody got out of the raft, and the drag caused him to seriously hurt (dislocate?) his elbow or wrist, before managing to free himself. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Why would I want to spoil 8 minutes of something that's only 40 minutes long to begin with? Percentage wise, that would be like watching a half-hour preview for The Godfather. I've never liked most previews in general (even the short 1 minute kind) - usually they just spoil all the major things about the next episode. Fortunately I don't even have the option of watching them since I download the shows I watch. But I was unfortunate enough to have to watch Heroes on a real television one night and was in utter disbelief at the fact that after every commercial break, they have a 10-second preview of what will happen in the next 10 minutes of the show. Are our attention spans so short that we need to know what will happen in each SCENE, before it even happens? What's next, a real-time narrator for every scene, saving us the trouble of interpreting the way the events are unfolding? Cliff's Notes? And I'm also not sure why you call it "NBC Heroes" over just "Heroes". I've never said, for example, I can't wait for tonight's episode of "FOX Simpsons". I have no reason to plug any networks. All ranting aside... yes it will be interesting to see how they wrap up the season. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

The article is not very clear... it describes a "world record" achieved by women, but does not specify that it is a "women's world record", just a "world record". Again, more clarification from inside the community is needed. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Easy... no video editing software at work! www.WingsuitPhotos.com

According to his profile, he has five kids. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Wow, nice find Steve. I would love to see pictures, and it's going to have to be tighter than this to qualify. Any Aussies who can comment? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Something like that. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

I've got his email address at home Scott, I'll email it to you later tonight. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Depends how important not drowning is to you. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Somewhere I am sure there is a statistic which says you have a 1 in xxxx chance of dying from shark bite. This is not true unless you go in water where sharks live. So it would make sense for somebody who's never been in water or near a shark in their life, to freak out when they go swimming and see one for the first time. Their chances just went from zero to a finite number, which is mathematically an infinite increase (ok, that's not even technically true but it illustrates the severity of the difference). Likewise there is a statistical chance (according to somebody) of dying by avalanche. If you've lived in FL your whole life, the first time you go skiing up north, your chances of avalanche death have now gone from zero to something. But in general I agree that fear and risk do not always coincide, in dangerous activities. This has largely to do with complacency, which we all (hopefully) try to avoid. Q: Why do most people think driving is so much more safe than skydiving? A: Because most people drive on a daily basis, and most people don't skydive on a regular basis. No, I am NOT trying to bring up that argument again, as I do not believe either is measurably "safer". But if I had to guess I'd say skydiving is more dangerous. I believe the difference is much less than most whuffos think though. I have always said that the merit of that argument is it brings to light the fact that most drivers underestimate how dangerous driving is; they have become very complacent. Just look around you on the highway. Hopefully we don't have to experience that same feeling in the sky (feeling surrounded by complacent pilots) but I'll admit watching a load land on a busy day during a boogie, it is easy to feel it sometimes. www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Uh-oh, it's Tony-tonysuits! Who could it possibly be with that mysterious username? www.WingsuitPhotos.com

Actually, it takes 3 DVD-R's to store 1 hour of raw video. And the cost of 3 DVD-R's is cheaper than 1 DV tape. Con: you now have to add in the time to burn your archive discs (although you're saving time in the capture process). Pro: you don't have to archive everything... you can cut out boring canopy rides and stuff like that. Con: optical media is prone to failure. I back up things that are REALLY important to me twice, on two sets of DVD-R's. Normal stuff, I have all my original tapes for, but I also have it on DVD-R's for faster access. www.WingsuitPhotos.com