Calvin19

Me and SINE innovations will have the FRASCA system up again that week. (our original idea was a new site, upwards of 100meters, but after my crash we need to settle for Iguanadon again. i cant hike and scout.) i will post again about more details. anybody who understands the risks of climbing and BASE (and can use a grigri) is welcome. as always, no promises.

how tall is it? As and cranes are my fav.

if its a hot crane, wear your rig tight and climb close to the ladder or put it on your front, but not in the stashbag, stashbag it to big for me. usualy, i just wear my rig because i climb the outside of the crane, its faster for me and uses more muscles so the same ones dont get tired. -SPACE-

Agreed, i design Radio Control sailplanes that i have used in competition, and the winglets i haveput on the wingtips work for the same benefit as stabilisers on a big square (read:disgustingly low aspect ratio) canopies, but do it only on the airflow on the bottom side of the wing. winglets on the top surface of wings are there to keep the air above the wing at a low pressure, in effect they increas the aspect ratio of said wing. being that the glide ratio of a BASE canopy is hopeless anyway, originaly the stabs were probably to improve glide, but the canopy has a huge anehedral to it. i would love to see Tom cut the stabs off one of his old tarps. that would be sweet. i bet it does help the flare a lot. thanks kids.

ok, i know they act as inverted winglets, but what do they do for opening? and WHY are they called stabilisers? i originaly thought they were for yaw stability. paragliders do not have them, (well, at least most of them) pataglider wingtips curve down a lot more though. i can see the point that it is a good place to stop the slider. but what wouldt the problem of letteing the rear of the slider com all the way up to the canopy with the washers placed there? i bet with no stabilisers there would be less offheading openings from the linestretch end of it. it would also be easier to pack.

seriously, i need to know the point of these fabric labias.

its not worth it. -SPACE-

Eating is Cheating! -a bumper sticked my old flight instructor has, making fun of Eating complexes. damn we are bastards. -SPACE-

BASE is finding out exactly how long you can go without sleep. its also finding out how little you need to sleep every night.

i believe it would. ir is a good. idea. of course, it would make these cascades become slack while the control lines are being pulled. right? -SPACE-

i can hypothisise on how this happened, its just like tension knots in the lines. the trailing edge of the canopy is flailing around a lot being that it has no lines to it, you can see on slider down openings the tail is just dort of floppy, so it flipped up and wraped around the bridal. of course, the pic looks like the bridal wrapped around he canopy. it could have switched when tension was distributed differently. (try it with twisted lines, same thing happens) Also, as a canopy opens from high speed, it drags a LOT of air with it very fast, and creats an extreme downward flow of air. i think it would be very easy for the PC and bridal to be effected enough in this turbulence to become wrapped in the lines of the canopy or even the tailpocket. keep in mind that as the canopy opens, in the second it takes for the jumper to go from 80 to 20 MPH, the air that the canopy has initialy dragged with it for the first quarter of a second is going close to 80MPH, and as the canopy is slowing down, where does this air go? it does decelerate quickly, but its going in the same direction as the canopy, therefor, PC/bridal tangles. Just my idea.

Sigh. I should have never said anything. Hopelessness. to me it is the most beautiful thing in the world. its the most desperate of human emotions i think. Its when the high schooler is reading his last letter from the girl who just dumped him in the pooring rain. its the way you feel when you watched that long jumper jump the 5 meter gap in the draw-bridge 60 meters above the river, its the way you felt when you witnessed your first base jump from 2 meters away. its that feeling in the seat of your pants as you fly a 30' airplane through a 60' hole in the moab arch. its the way you feel about base before you ever got into it. its not hopelessness as in there is no hope for living, or hope for a beautiful life. Hopeless is the only way i can describe how i feel when i get those moments. if anyone can give me a better or different discription then tall me, please.

i cutaway my canopy on my warlock once. it was a bitch getting the cable back through the shoulder and neck. try ssending the other cable through FROM the end of the housing on the mud flap. thats how i did it. also why gargoyls are kick ass. heavy, but kick ass.

yeah, i think that hopelessness is more beautiful than haveing faith. what i mean by hopeless is not what a wuffo would originaly think, its just a way i look at things.

some think base is commitment. its not commitment. commitment is sticking with somebody or something, commitment is haveing a choice to get out. when you step off a cliff, there is no hope. BASE is not about commitment, its about hopelesness.

agreed.

didnt bail out. sadly. before i started base hardcore we jumped some sketchball old rigs for fun. 28' military rounds were among them

i request a picture. I have seen and used bailout rigs with a meshless pilot chute, that had no openings, it is hard to explain, i am going to try to find a pic of one on google image. these bailout rigs were 40s military, and later converted to civilian sailplane/aerobatic bailout rigs.

ps, i have used duct tape, and it does work, just, ill never use it again.

i also use 1" masking tape, it tears better than one half inch tape, i tested it a bit, and the half inch stretches as it is tensioned and is much harderto brake.

masking tape will brake, i always use a masking tape tailgate even with that packjob. its a kickass packjob as well. i have put 6 wraps on a sliderup packjob at the royal gorge and anybody who knows those delays knows that it will brake even thn.

this was a meshless pc correct? as in there was ribs that led to the canopy? in a spoke fashion?

dude, what is a pilot chute? do you mean bridalchute?

i do not, i tape at the top of the control lines. i think that if all the control lines are controled with tape, then there is no way other lines can get around it. but i dont know that much about lineovers. i pack a weird way now, deadmanwalking taught me a new way to wrap the outside cells around the packjob, and he swears it works better than a tailgate.

hmmm... i havrnt had any overseas experience, but to me, Base is a lot like flying low and fast, or rope jumping. here are my close calls etc in those areas. Its glancing over at your best friend and say "so, lets take it down before the cops show up" because you sat in your car at 4am parked on the side of a bridge, where you have been sitting for the last 3 hours in perfect silence, watching the traffic light turn 84 times a half mile in front of you, after you did the first jump on a new ropejump system where everything went wrong, even though there was 2 competent people that set it up, and there was a reliable backup, you still freefell 60 meters, and at the last second realised that something went wrong, lock off the grigri, and brace for impact. your feet slam into the ground. but thats it. you bounce back up into the night sky and realise that another meter, and you would be dead. Its hiking 3 miles at 13,000'msl, even though your broken ankle hurtslike hell, and you still havent been cleared for weight bearing, just so you can have a glass of red wine over your destroyed airplane that one of your best freinds crashed a week before. saying goodbye to her, and "you wouldnt have wanted to grow up anyway, i love you"