birdynamnam

Got you big time. Buy you one in Cochstedt to make up.

Ok: I will tell Loic that

How can I improve my transition to backflying, not loosing so much altitude? Transition

eeeuuww don't want to hear the details...

me first

Don't know the ZP.exe, but I have tried all the others that you list and they are all great for wingsuit. As has been said a lot of times. However none of them will match your elliptical in flight and flare performance, sorry, but on the other hand they are all cool when you have the twists. So take your pick and live with it

good post, thanks

yes it was

aprox. 150 jumps

no, the one I have got cannot possibly crack. It is very solid. There might be different quality balls around?

changed my leather hackey to a golf practice ball, same size as the hackey but super lightweight

must be a hell of an experience jumping from a passenger jet

Not to worry next time is Nov. 17-18, 2007.

CReW experience also very usefull indeed..

Good... Thats settled then. Bowie you now know what you are going to do 3-8 July.

wouups, sorry for the highjack.. I am just looking forward to Cochstedt here

yes absolutely! There are added challenges. It is much harder than RW bigway. But that is *still* not my point which was more the diciplin thing when one slot is missing...

Based on my experience I find that wingsuit big formations are just RW bigway formations in the horizontal level. It adds some additional challenges to RW bigway challenges already there, yes. But the fact remains that if you are going slot specific, the same kind of diciplin may be needed and that is my sole point here. Not to start a debate about RW vs FF experience and so on. And yes people with say 30 RW jumps may not be allowed on a 200RW bigway skydive and that is basically okay. They will join later when they reach the required skill level.

Yup I think that having some RW bigway skills is definitely a plus. Not all have them, some might not even have been doing bigway RW before doing the wingsuit bigways. Anyway one thing I would like to see when doing bigways in wingsuit in generel is more diciplin as we know it from RW bigway formations. Example: Say you have a slot and the guy you are supposed to fly right behind is a little late, then you should actually leave a little space vertically and horizontally so that the missing guy have a chance of reaching the slot. Everybody is racing for the formation and filling in as best as they can no matter who is missing, keeping some from reaching their slot resulting in incomplete formations. If you on the other hand wait for the missing person the wingsuiters behind you must detect this and keep there waiting position behind you as well. Shouldn't wait forever, no... Another thing is the guy missing might have been involved in some serious wingsuit kong-fu-fighting during exit, often a reason for being late, which is another common thing that organizers should have focus on. We have to stand really tight in the plane and exit quickly.. I would like to have some more space or a better and more rehearsed by everybody exit-plan-system that works. It can keep the sudden and expensive dentist bill's away

I agree that the new shape is better for thre reasons that you mention, plus I would think it would be less tirering to fly? Stiil think that all wings looks just a tiny bit smaller, not that this should be a bad thing though..

though it is obvious that the wings are smaller than on the S3S/S6, I would say that if you where able to get high "enough" performance out of less surface area that would be ideal to me. Why flap around in tons of nylon if you could do with a little less and more intelligently applied material? It seems to me that the suit is (naturally) a hybrid of some previous designs (Firebird wing back inlets, Phi arm wings angle, S6 back deflector though a lot bigger). I notice the angle of the arms are more swept back. I like that idea. I don't quite get it why the legwing is that narrow. seems more narrow than S3S/S6? Personally I like a suit with a bit wider leg stance.. Bla bla.. the best thing is to try it on ofcourse..If it feels good it is all good

Ask Daniel (blueskypara@free.fr) He is using that suit a lot. Check his site, here is one pic from his gallery: http://blueskypara.free.fr/phpwebgallery/galleries/LeBlancMay2006/LeBlancMay2006-1.jpg

plus insects they really like the yellow color bzzzzz bzzzzz