KrisFlyZ

I not much of a beer drinker but will be Glad to buy you one. Contact info is same.....but will PM again. Kris.

Congratulations!! That is sweet. How tiring are the flights? Can all the altitude be used in a straightline flight(not that it matters)? Kris.

This happened on a PC with a plastic pipe handle as well...not that the handle would have mattered...the know was around the material the PC trailed for a few secs and extracted the PC a few secs before impact was due(the shadow in the video was getting close). Several people including me(I deleted all the pics on that SD card by mistake) took pics of the PC. Maybe someone will post. I think the jumper held the PC a sec after extracting it from the pouch before throwing it. Does this fall under the weak PC throw category? Kris.

2.0 to White House. That means you are flying quite a bit more than 2.5. I heard you were opening quite high on top of the whitehouse. Based on the guy that said it...500' is not what he considers high. Kris.

Please do. Kris.

I have seen people(One Newbie and one very experienced jumper) use that PC packjob on WS BASE jumps. The experienced jumper asked Robi how he packed his PC and the newbie told me he and his mate(or whoever else..I didn't catch that part) looked at all the packing methods and figured out that the tight BURRITO pack job was the best method. I told him then that it was stupid...especially combined with his pull altitude. Anyway...a link of this post is going to his email. Flame away please. Kris.

Congrats Peter. Nice one. Kris.

From a GPS log I have(not mine) after a dive and planeout in a wingsuit, between sec 18 and sec 41 of the jump, the average GR is 3.37. Overall GR for the jump before a 90 degree turn is 2.0 and overall GR is 1.7 The planeout is not really a planeout...it is full flight and is still quite steep but the speed keeps dropping but is between 100mph and 120 mph for the whole period. The GPS we used is not that accurate...its just a cheap Handheld unit without DGPS. Multipath errors from GPS are quite small. If the error was only from multipath, it is not even worth worrying about. Check this Kris.

Can someone please update the altitudes and distances? From what I read on here recently. Smell is 960m exit and 1.6Km to the shore, 1.7 km to the whitehouse. What about exits 4, 5, 6 and 7? is 700m-800 m correct? #8 is 1500m to LZ. Kris.

This is terrible news. Condolences to everyone that knew the jumper. Kris.

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In real life 230 lb jumper has a very different wing thickness(vs imagining jumpers of same dimensions but different weights) and that IMO also has an effect on the form drag characteristics of the resultant wing. Thinner wing can sustain a higher maximum speed so ideal calculations don't really play out like that in real life. Want to argue that? Take it up with deadmanwalking . As for break off after a flock....I agree. It is not possible to judge who 'outflew' who. Too many visual issues and if you are watching someone, you are not maxing out. Kris.

I thought the unit recorded AoA and other such parameters...do you intend to also have some kind of beeping or HUD as well? Kris.

It is immediately evident from the pics that Chuck has a shorter torso and longer legs than Jeff(?). SO not really that good of a comparision because leg length determines wing width(on truely custom suits). The pics were not taken from the same distance and also the angle is a bit off but I was able to do some manipulation. One important thing is that the camera is at exactly 90 degrees to the plane in which the wingsuit is otherwise...it will look like this pic on the PF website. http://www.phoenix-fly.com/products/Phantom.htm Robi's left leg is further back than the right leg from where the camera is looking. It makes the picture look like Robi is standing on a slight incline. Kris.

How do you know when you are actually flying the next time that you are at 16 degrees? Kris.

An interesting post by DW that touches on this subject. Kris.

Yeah, do you need his email? Do you remember " Duck Laying an Egg" . Kris.

Check This Kris.

I think every second logging is good enough. If the end result is that it is a) easy to mount b) has WAAS/ENOS capability and c)acquires and maintains a satelite fix like the newer Garmin units with a SiRF chip I want one. Kris.

Thank you. Kris.

The most difficult thing for me was to get the head down and not look at things while flying. I'd forget that on every jump. Get the head still and look with your eyes...even then in my experience the best flights are when the eyes are fixed and the concentration is total. Anyway...it seems like a good wingsuit pilot will make a good camera person. Kris.

Dont be fooled. The GS1/SugarGlider can fly fast as fuck forward with the right person flying it. I have seen it done. Be safe Ed Hey Ed, Not doubting you...I'd love to see that. Coz my mind is made up(theoritically about wing area distribution for forward speed) about that and it is good once in a while to get a dose of reality. Chuck...no doubt that huge legwing will make the Mach1 suit faster. I am wondering(again in theory) if the huge arm wings don't come in the way of forward speed. Also the wing inflation inlets add drag to the wing leading edge. Even with all this that suit will be fast (kinda like a Corvette....it may not be the most efficient 5.7 V8 out there but because of the big engine it does not need to be as efficient.). It just remains to be seen how fast. Can Headcorn U.K get a demo suit next season? There are so many guys at this DZ that Know Tony. Would be nice to try one. I met Tony at Richmond boogie and went to him with my GTI to see if he could hook up a pouch for a GPS. After that meeting I thought he will make wingsuits someday.

Sorry if this post is not helpful. Search for Scott Campos's posts on this subject. LouDiamond on here. I jumped a season with a Foretrex 201(still have it). In theory because of DGPS (WAAS/ENOS capability) these units are supposed to be extremely accurate....but as you mentioned they hardly acquire and maintain a signal in the airplane (other than in the co-pilots seat)...that makes them almost useless. I use an Edge 205 and an Edge 305(with the new SiRF chip) and even though they don't have DGPS....they maintain a strong signal from 8-9 satelites(about 20-30 ft accuracy) even inside a Beaver. Ideally a GPSMAP 60 and 76 Cx with DGPS and the SiRF chip sounds like a good choice but it is a pain to mount. Kris.

Got them from two different sources and then realized that they are of the same jump. If you observe closely, you can see the second photographer in one of the pics. I heard the funniest comment from one of the jumpers about the posture in one of the pics. Want to guess what it was? One of the filenames is a clue. Here are pics from an exit in the same suit earlier this summer. There are some subtle differences. Kris.

I totally agree. The Phantom arm wing is the perfect example of "larger area is needed but it also needs to be in the right place". Also, the leg muscles thing. Can there be a suit that falls like the GS-1 but flies forward like the V-2 at the same time? Let's see. Kris.