Calvin19

i think they cost a lot, i didnt check. the rogollo style reserve has decenr heading performance, and amaziing accuracy in zero wind. but forward speed is nothing. i read that the glide was 2/1. but i dont buy it. there are a lot of discusions about them in PG forums. ill look them up. you can buy one brand new for about 1000 US. (the canopy only, that is. ) i dont think we eould want the moron dbag thing.

they pretty much made a retard-proof harness and a moron-proof way to do a static line/dbag, and used a paraglider rogollo style singe surface fast opening parachute. a cool idea, a lot of idiot bought them. i dont think it ever was, or ever will be used for a real escape.

thank you, thats only part of parachutist i read, then toss it in the fire. Nick, I respect your decision along with everyone else. is there a chance for a fatality list, only nameless? Im not good enough to run it, but there are a few that could.

whatever part of BASE i am, i have an opinion. of the 3 votes that can exist, 1-get rid of the list totaly 2-get rid of the names and personal info on the existing list, 3-leave it how it is. my vote would be the third, leave it. I have nothing in my life i need to protect, and if i did something stupid to kill myself, i dont want my name censored, because that would be nothing less than censorship. but, anyone that has a problem with the nameless/impersonal list idea has something wrong with them. leave the list up, remove names and personal info. its a good comprimise. is there not a place online for skydiving fatality info? (i really dont know)

Dorbie, Yeah, I thought of that. So i practiced manipulating the view fields (picture deformaties) of pictures on photoshop. i actualy used a bunch of stills i took with the same camera while flying a paraglider, just basicaly trying to do a "two dimensional" panorama, so i took 4 shots accross, and stacked 3 high, my "Photostich" program really sucks t doing that, so i have to do it in photoshop elements for mac. Photostitch does not even recognise star patters, so that definatly wont work. Im not great at photoshop, but im good enough to match image saturation/exposure etc and image edge splicing. Im not really going for high res, The goal is to be able to print a wall mural, and a 140mp final image will be fine for that. Im not doing research or anything, just want the pretty star picture. The lense i am useing (Canon 17-85 EF-S) will work fine i think, it will not be perfectly sized in all places (kinda like a flat map of earth, it just does not work out) but oh well. oh, and finaly, of course im doing the project year-round, the goal is to have the entire northern sky hemisphere! doesnt even have to be year round, only 6 months or so. i just need to be up at 03:00 some nights. one problem is the images will vary of course in atmospheric um, color? with humidity, temp, etc. i know it matters in astro photography, but it might not even be an issue here. thanks!!! CH

Yes, it a German Dynofor. records real time readings as well as peak readings, can be hooked up to a computer to get a graph as well. it weighs about 1.5 kg, so carry away is no good.

jolly impossible? huh? I know your not useing a surgeons knot in kernmantle nylon climbing rope, its just to give example. but the reason i dont use a multi-twist knot of any kind in rigging (rope rigging, not jumping) is the knots in-consistancy. the loops tend to fold over themselves as tensioned, sometimes even abraiding the outside of the rope. it does not 'invert' but it does fold over itself, and sometimes makes the 3 or 4 twists in the primary part of the knot useless to decrease the angle the rope bends. this of course matters much less as the line gets smaller such as a cotton break cord, but In my opinion, break cord knotting is over-engineered. of course, it does not and cannot hurt. my load cell is to big for a carry-along, but i could use it for an anchor. -SPACE-

Agreed

Aye. fair enough. what we percieve and the actual acceleration is never similar is it?

Hall was also a well known Paraglider pilot, and there is a lot of talk in the PG forums on this as well. Hall was the first to skydive with modified paragliders, very inovative guy.

hmmm... I assume this is from the rotation of the body? not the accual lateral acceleration? I would think that too-shallow settings would cause little more than feeling of surge, not a hard opening.

to clarify, i think it does a lot of good to teach new people, and to remember the departed, Im not for or against it. I also thank nick DG for keeping it current, it is a shitty job. and he is good at it. on a different note, I dont believe in censorship. and the list does not lie. it may speculate here and there, but ot much. I do want to be on it if i die BASE jumping, or in another sport as a 'died outside BASE'.

but it IS looked at as morbid. by EVERYONE who is not a BASE jumper. it is looked at by the media as a proud announcement of how extreme we are. I think it does some good, but i think it does some bad as well. I have it printed out and archived to look at now and then. but every single news article about a fatality refers to it. as if every reported BASE fatitly is reporting the 100 fatalities before it as well.

same website, just my link goes to the 'make your own' i made the two in my post. weak, but someone can do better. or at least spell them correctly

http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php this is fun, you can make up your own. i think it there could be sime funny results from BASE jumpers.

Aye, got it. thank you.

I use a 42 from that object. The opening speed was probably normal. My guess is that the off heading surprise made it feel otherwise. that makes the most sense. 90s make the opeing feela lot harder.

With an instructor you can practice tracking in the tunnel. You can also hook your feet onto the doors to accomplish the same thing. are you being serious about this? if you are, i dont think its really practicing tracking. tracking is super-complicated aerodynamics problem, and is not the same while stuck to a wall inside a kitchen table sized tube with moving air. the feeling, air movement, leg positing (holding on to the door?) body angle, AOA, all different.

hmmm, my dynometer is pretty small. ill bring it on a jump sometime. but i never do SLs. your right though... ill bring it to potato and jack some cord off a new kid and his super-BASE prep kit. that should solve the problem. ill even make it jump(the newbie) on a different note, Cotton is about as in-consistant as it gets. even break cord varies a bit. PSS-what is a surgeons knot? I do a figure-Eight. then a million little retard knots.

really good vents and coastal winds?

poynter manual? we are base jumping home boy. dude, break cord is cotton. 40%? what knot? every knot, in every kind of material, in every weave, in every angle, in different temperatures and saturation of knot. it all matters. from 0% up tp 80%. and yes, i have a dynometer/tensile tester, and yes. i have tested it. cotton is in the lower margins of knot-weakening percentages. while i have not tested 80lb break cord, i would say that it breaks closer to 140lbs than 80 when gradualy pulling/gradual load increased.

of course, if your doing a SL with no PC, just flail a lot and you will be fine. well. live through it kinda fine. maybe. flailing is good. i love sport where flailing is a technique.

dan osmon was the carl boenish of rope jumping. super bad ass dude, "on the shoulders of giants" we are to him, but he went to far to fast. but yeah, kinda like that, just not retard-sketchy.

Aye, agreed there, but in the case of something like a arm bridal wrap, i dono. and it could happen on a crowded A. or B. Or E. Or S. or O.