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Hey Guys, To me, the Flock U boogie at Pepperell was awesome. Thank to the DZ staff, Jeff and Scotty for coming up from Florida, Purple Mike – great base – , the girl and guys from CPI, Papa Smurf, and our local wingsuit crowd we had some great wuingsuit jumps and after sunset fun. Hey Lurch, you’re pretty much indestructible man. Do you have titanium feathers or something? I am sure you can put some duct tape on your chest and be up and flying by the weekend for Tiki. We need you brother! WINGSUIT!!! SKYDIVING!!! Riccardo FU5

Hi Brian, Great Comment. You are so right, indeed I do not recall seeing the prop on exit in my last 200 jumps. Next tracking-dive after spotting I will try the exit you pointed out. Look forward to next flight. Soon I will have Don take care of my corners and I will buy some hard risers inserts. I do not feel comfortavle with a 100'' bridle because my BOC is free-fly tight and I do not want to loosen it up. Yesterday I got an alomost new Cypres 2 to replace my dying Cypres. I look forward to seeing you and the flock again at Pepperell. Have fun this weekend in Florida. Riccardo

Like phoenixlpr says, the Neptune detects barometric air changes from which the fall rate is computed. The profiles I shows are from my Paralog and they report fall rate in true air speed. That is the vertical speed of the skydiver during the dive at the elevation he is at. Another way to present the data could be to show the SLAS. That is the vertical speed of the skydiver referred to sea level elevation. What is the brand and model of the GPS that you are wearing? Does it have capability to export profiles in to Google Earth? The profile of tracking jump 209 shows approximately 70 mph of fall rate change from 10,000' and 9,000'. The fall rate goes from 140 mph to 70 mph in approximately 5 s. From the note on my logbook, what happened there, I think, is that I changed the attitude of my body during the track from a steeper head low to a very slow head high track. In other words, I think that as the angle of attack of the body widely changed in short time I did slow down. I was not looking for this effect, but next time I will certainly try to play with that. Thanks for the comment. Safe and fun jumps, Riccardo

You have a point. I am 6'4'' 225 lb with gear on. My weight is distributed in that I am pretty slim. The winguit I was wearing for my maiden flight was an original Classic that I checked out from my BMI. I plan to stay with this model or with a similar one (GTI as far as I know) for a while since as far as I understand these are good entry level suits. The profiles I posted are profiles of my tracks with no wingsuit on. Only my freefly suit which is pretty tight. Next time I will go tracking I will try to exit as you suggest, with arms closed and legs spread and see how that goes. Thanks. This I am posting is the profile of my only wingsuit jump. It shows a slow speed of 61 mph TAS and deployment speed of 106 mph TAS. More importantly the speed on exit of 127 mph TAS during the spins. Thanks, Riccardo

The video I have seen of my winguit exit confirms that I am steep on my head. I have not seen any videos of exits during practice tracking-dives and next time I will ask the videographer to video my exit.

Hi, I did my first bird-dive and got hooked to it. After the dive, my BMI recommended a number of things to work on through a bunch of practice tracking dives. His comments include (1) a stable exit (during my bird-dive I ended up on my head on exit followed by a spin from which I recovered fine). He’d also like (2) a more stable deployment (during my bird-dive, I also ended up kind of on my head during deployment). Before wingsuit, I never really did tracking-dives, now I have made about ten of them and I have got pretty hooked to tracking. Through tracking, I figured out how to have a nice wingsuit-style deployment position so that my original Sabre 170 does not open too fast. I still have two questions though: 1. How come that when I exit the otter in a wingsuit-style position I always end up kind of on my head. You see in the profiles of two tracking dives I attached speeds of 140 mph and 160 mph right after exit. 2. These profiles also show true air speeds of 72 mph and 82 mph during my slow track in a wingsuit-like position (these results are consistent with others I have). Can these readings be trusted? I wear my Neptune on my wrist, I tried wearing two Neptunes (one on each wrist) having comparable results between the two. Is there a better position to wear Neptunes to get accurate readings during track-dives or wingsuit-dives? Thanks a bunch. Safe, long, fast, and slow flights, Riccardo

Hey folks, Thanks for feedback and experience. I appreciate it. In the reviews for the TEMPO under Dropzone.com/gears I have read that quite a few guys had there TEMPOs turning left and had to keep holding on to the right toggle to fly straight. Have you heard of or experienced this behavior with this canopy. Is it due to line shrinking and aging? Is it likely to happen on a new canopy? Also when I compute my 1.15 wing loading I take the real surface of the TEMPO 170, which is 178 sft. My weight geared up is 205 lb (without main). TEMPO suggests a max suspended weight of 200 lb. How should I take this data? Very conservative estimate related to fly capability or what? Thanks again, RS

Thanks, My container doesn't fits anything bigger than 178 176 reserve. Well yeah, you should get the container to fit the reserve and not the other way around...But when you try to go with used gear is not always easy. The other thing is that I signed up for several canopy control classes and I plan to get proficient enough to get down to a 150-170 Main by the end of August. With regard to the TEMPO, the guy I bought the container from was selling it as a reserve (new in the box). Everybody says PDR is better and probably it is true. But what is wrong with TEMPOs? RS

Hi Everybody, I am about to jump with a rig that has a new 170 TEMPO loaded at 1.15. I have got 50 jumps and high level of currency. I plan to be jumping a lot this year. So far though I have jumped with 200 or bigger canopies and with my new rig I will move down to a 190 Sabre. I am writing to ask you a feedback about how TEMPOs, perform at mine or higher wing loadings. I appreciate any prior experience and suggestions you may have, things I should be aware of with this canopy, or any word of wisdom that can get me to the ground safe in case I am on a reserve ride with this canopy. P.S. I hope this is the right form to post this ad. Thanks, RS