dploi

dploi - 1250

Canopy was already flying before launch.

(Responding to the first post). Sounds like you have ONE asshole on your hands. Do not extend this to the group. I'm not a BMI, nor do agree with 100% of the program, but your post is an obvious slam. Just fly your fucking suits, people.

It's called ground launching. I guess that's what the is for. I've done exactly this from two, um... objects (building (my balcony) and bridge) that were under 25', on a 107 sq ft elliptical canopy. then again, i've also done this from zero feet under the same canopy. launched from the flat ground, hovered and was pushed back a bit, landing about twenty feet behind the "launch point" (a parking spot) after 5 - 6 seconds of flight.

This is true, but not necesarily the case for all canopies. I agree that the extra energy gained from multiple rotations is minimal compared to the difficulties. However, not all wings fly their most efficient in a dive with a slow carving turn hard on the front risers. Some do better with harness input. Some even do better with quick snap from riser turns. Flying the wing smoothly is even more key. A wing may not necesarily build up the most energy from a long dive on front risers. The statement still stands and I'll clarify. The time spent in the turn at the appropriate speed for your canopy and wingloading is less important than a specific degree of turn. This in regards to building speed for a swoop, not necessarily setup and/or safety. For sheer performance, the optimum degree of a turn will be determined by the amount of time you spend rotating your canopy at the best rate to build speed. Then factors like safety (traffic, comfy altitude, etc), and setup will give you a more repeatable and therefore overall "better" degree of turn.

Only met him a few times but he'd a damn nice guy with a super solid character. He ruled the legal span and will be a greatly missed part of my Twin Falls visits. BSBD. :(

Skin is funny. He makes me go "Ha ha!"

The degree of the turn is far less important than the time spent in the turn.

Quit the bickering. Just stick to the 4, like I said. It's rad.

4. The 4 fucking rocks!

It was, actually.

Ground launching is definitely a sport worthy of its own forum. Anyone who doesn't agree hasn't done it.

It was a double slider up that I saw on skydivingmovies.com a few months back. http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1619 Edited to add link to video.

Here's the real lesson: don't fuck up.

Was that not you that was once at the bottom of a double slider up freefall assist from a famous 486' S?

Leaning forward does two things: 1. Puts a little pressure on the front risers to flatten your canopy out a bit when on rears, eeking outthe last bit of performance (less drag relative to the direction of travel). 2. Makes it easier to get that cock in your mouth. Love, Me (edited to remove poster's name from message title)

Not good. The further USPA stays away from BASE the better. BASE does NOT need all those Regulations, suggestions,awards, and Government Involvement!!!!!! Just my .02 Krone as usual. The idea that there aren't enough skydivers is in error. With more than 20,000 people having gotten their D license since I got mine, the number of skydivers hasn't dropped. In fact, I think there are too damn many these days, which is a large part of why I began BASE jumping. Yeah, I guess you can just attribute the above to me being an old man, but I'll be jumping (in some fashion - BASE preferably) until they pry my pilot chute out of my cold dead BOC. I think you know why (wrong or right) USPA is against BASE - the historical El Cap thing. Also GL has not had the history of illegal launching that BASE has. Most GL now is done legally in the daytime and USPA embraces it as an extension of Canopy Control training (just guessing). Really, Nobody does illegal GL (well, i am sure there are a few,but not many we hear about anyway) No dispersions meant against you Tree, just another viewpoint. t I concur. The further a regulatory body stays away from BASE, the better. More BASE in Parachutist simply means more under-experienced skydivers getting excited about fixed object jumping and the USPA claiming responsibility for popularizing a significantly more dangerous sport to these jumpers. It's a bad situation all around.

From what I've seen of the S3-S, it's not just a little upgrade. It's not something that needs to be re-learned either, though. It's a suit that allows experienced S3 pilots to get a signifiacnt performance boost right out of the box.

Hell the fuck no. If you've stood on the edge, exited, and have lived to tell the tale, and you STILL call that a skydive, you are an idiot. Maybe once you're a good distance from the wall, and maybe in a wingsuit or solid track, it can feel like a skydive for a moment, but the first and last few seconds of freefall from even the biggest wall are indisputably different. Maybe your friend is pulling too high.

Do NOT attempt to perform cartwheels on the ground if fully zipped into your wingsuit.

Sorry, but I call bullshit. I seriously doubt that any extra forward motion came from the suit. Though the bit of inflation that occured in the suit before opening is pretty impresive.

This is true.

Who said anything about gaining weight? I'm talking about adjusting your canopy's AoA and AoI. There's no extra weight. There's no extra speed. There is extra lift.

Fucking wow. I just heard it. So where's the erase-from-memory button? Funny as fuck on teh first listen, but frightening in retrospect. Not frightening as in "what a scary situation" but frightening as in "I can't believe this guy is BASE jumper." Solo dayblazing with an injury and then wire striking. More disturbing was how he just lost it in a crisis situation -- NOT a quality of a BASE jumper.

That is some classic shit: "this was not a cliff strike, it was a perfectly executed tree landing". Apparently they used but a fraction of Dwain's video in that compilation. I heard he went on like that for hours. -C. Long live DW.