BlindBrick

Swwet, I've been looking for something like that for a two-stage braking procedure for speed diving. Though I'm not sure about puting that kind of stress on a 16 y.o. harness. The funny thing was that a even as recent as this years PIA I'd talked to Strong reps about the possibility of getting a sport rig modded like that and they didn't have a clue. Guess I should have talked to the man himself.

come on Glen, tell us how you really feel. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Thanks to the participants so far. Keep em coming. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I'm having to conduct a research project for my grad stats class. I'm researching whether there's a difference in the perception of financial risk between those with an undergrad vs grad degree. If you have, or are pursuing, a degree in business, I'd be grateful if you could take my survey and email it back to me. If you'd like a summary of my findings, be sure to check yes and I'll email you upon the completion of the project. thanks, -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Per Vigil USA, the red dot corresponds to freefall speed exceeding 78 mph while the yellow dot corresponds to the freefall speed dropping below 78 mph for more than 5/8's of a second. It's not mentioned rather that's real, average or smoothed air speed. If I was a smaller jumper with a wingsuit, I bet there'd be multiple sets of dots. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Wingsuit flight. I was trying for max horizontal speed and then right before I began my pull procedure, I transitioned to max slow fall position to kill horizontal speed. I then collapsed my wings and arched so that I hit belly terminal (typically about 167 for me, but my SuperMach has a lot of fabric flapping around when the wings are collapsed) before I pulled which tends to improve my openings with a wingsuit. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

doh, never thought about the signal noise. I was thinking ti was real speed but the spikes from the noise led me to think I was wrong. thanks. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I had some work done on my Vigil and had them download the data while they were at it. I forgot however to ask what the red line charts. I'm talking about the the line's that's plotting something and not the horizontal line that inidcates the decision point. Anyone have any ideas? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

We (the Cherokee) called oursleves Tsa La Gi which means The People. -Blindbrick "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

That may be the way it is in your country but in the US, the key assumption underlying all commerce except Real Estate is Caveat emptor (let the buyer beware). Unless a given jurisdiction's laws state otherwise, a seller has no legal responsibility to provide any type of customer service or refund. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Got winded out today. Next weekend I'll do another Prodigy jump and then one on my SuperMach and then post both data files here for other people to look at. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

It could very well be. For some reason, Paralog consistently doesn't like my data, so I use Time Machine to make a Google Earth map and then sift through the data points in Time machine to find exit and end of flight. Once I have those I then go back to GE and use the path calculator to figure the distance. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

~16 kt. headwind -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Had a 10 week layoff from wingsuiting and just got back to wingsuiting today. With being uncurrent and with my AAD still on the way back from Belgium, I decided to play it conservative and break out my Prodigy for a few jumps before going back to my SuperMach. Had what felt like a great flight and my numbers are showing a gl of ~2.3. I was wondering how that stacks up against other novices? If it matters, I'm 350 lbs (25 stone/159 kg) out the door. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ya know, lawn darts would work just fine as pylons for those of us in the XXL division. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Not horribly fast right now. I've had to break to avoid overrunning the 182 I exited from before (both the pilot and I coincidently chose the same heading to RTB), but that's about it. However, I'm still new enough to the sport and my SM1 that my numbers for both horizontal and vertical are improving with each jump. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

fastest horizontal speed -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

My wife noticed that I'm the only bird at my DZ and when I do go elsewhere to wingsuit, I'm always sinking out of the flock. She also knew that Chuck Blue told me to get some stickers or graphics on my unadorned helmet ASAP. She just showed me this proof. I'm supposed to take my helmet in Monday for them to apply the viynl. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ask me again in a month, and I'll have a much better idea. I've been down for container repairs for the last 7 weeks, and when you're my size, everything's custom so you can't just borrow another rig. Got my rig back yesterday, so I'll be back in the air this weekend. My impressions so far though have been that my forward speed is tremendous. Compared to my Prodigy, I'm covering, more distance. Also, with my Prodigy I had to slow down for 3 seconds before I pitched, with my SM1, I have to wait a minimum of 5. Performance-wise, I really don't have any numbers. Once I switched to the SM1, Paralog, just went flaky on me. It'll do stuff like say I had a 3 second freefall but plot me over half a mile of freefall on the GoogleEarth map. I've never seen anything that would indicate that Klaus puts out a shoddy product, so I think it's probably just a case of me falling outside the range of the algorithms, and I just haven't emailed him about ti yet. Since my rig was down anyway, I sent my Vigil in to get the logs downloaded. When I get those back next week, I hope to be able to compare them with the raw GPS data to get some accurate numbers. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Safire II 269 @ 1.3 -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Not really, the "Natives" who got the beads were not the tribe who's territory Manhattan island sat in. If we were using that example, then it would have been me giving Chuck Blue's credit card number to Tony and walking away with the suit! Damn, I miss the old ways...

Significantly less than needed to get a cessna load of jumpers tanked.

I'm looking to do some in-flight narration, so iwas considering using a throat mike hooked to my camcorder. I was wondering if that was practical, and if so could anyone recommend a mic? Right now, I've found some good reviews for this one: http://www.ixcessory.com/Merchant/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=I&Category_Code=XTM880D4 Also, I wanted to put in a failure point into the wiring since I'd be tethered to my helmet. I was thinking of using a male-male adapter fastened in such a way that if I jettisoned the helmet, the line would come loose at the adpater. Anyone know if that'll work? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I was visiting Pahokee when the Bangbus Crew filmed their impromptu porno there. I remember Tammy and some of the other girls were not happy about it, and after Herc started nosing around the wetspot on the bar, they said they were going to have to start calling him "Herpes'les"

Which is ironic considering that some scholars think that in ancient usuage, cunt was a term of respect used to describe priestesses -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."