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Ive used the NEX for video for a while now. But I just started using it for freefall stills as well, as Sony released a timelapse app (for the Sony NEX 5R and up) that works like magic. https://www.playmemoriescameraapps.com/portal/usbdetail.php?eid=IS9104-NPIA09014_00-000003 Ive installed it on my NEX and it essentially turns it into a GoPro like stills camera. Hit the shutter before exit, and at set intervals, it takes photos with the settings of your choice. Anything from 1 second and up. Illiminates the need for a biteswitch, but of course does create the need to sort through a load of stills after landing. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Some new video stuff from the last few months :) FLB Training at Texel - Vimeo Spring BASE adventures - Vimeo FinFlock Carving - Vimeo Puerto Rico Freefall Fest - Vimeo JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

It doesnt look like the smooth slowmotion that should come out of the camera. Im seeing double/skipped frames in that video. When you import in premiere, rightclick on the 120 fps clip, and choose 'interprete movie' and than choose 'set framerate' to 29.97 (this means it sets it to 30 fps playback, like your project, using every single frame of the 120 it shot at). When you put the video on your timeline, it should than give smooth slowmos. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Such a shame this thread wasnt posted on April 1st, as it should have JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Just order a black wingsuit, and stand around in it for 10 minutes and it will be hotter than hell the day Hitler arrived! JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

After jumping ends and the beerlight is on, I know many skydivers who are not even able to remember their own name. Let alone use it to sign a logbook... JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Its a document where I note which jumps I made with which students, how many jumps are on my main, and in general the places Ive been. Fun to read back. And if somebody asks, where I can look up data on these students regarding how they did, and if they passed their FFC etc. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Our Dutch rules/regulations allow for a digital logbook to be kept, as long as all details on location/date/jump type/delay etc are noted. This means an altitrack and/or protrack are not concidered a logbook. But a detailed listing (downloaded data, with added location/jump type information) are, through JumpTrack or Paralog. Ive been using this digital logbook (on my laptop) as my only logbook the last several thousand jumps as well, and never had any problems on any DZ world-wide presenting this as my logbook for DZ checks/registration. But its also in my organisations rules as such. USPA may have a paper logbook in their rules, which would mean you need to stick to it. And a DZO can hold you up to that. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I am curious why you are against structured teaching/instruction, yet started promoting/running your own brand affiliated teaching program at the same time as you where protesting the USPA one. As its seems like you sacrifice actual control by an organisation to have personal control. Yet control thats not in any way binding when it comes to whats taught. And step by step, DZ's now step in with their own variations of rules, that often end up way more strict or even completely retared compared to anything the USPA would have been pushing forward. As to stickers 'working'. Ever been in a plane with those 'no farting' stickers? Did those seem in any way effective? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

At least that second reply in that thread got sorted But no mention of that of course...hehe JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

With a lot of new people in wingsuit flying seemingly being more worried about the biggest possible size of the suit they fly, vs the skills and navigation needed to even fly a smaller one, I dont think thats a thing we'll see changing any time soon.. edited to add: Seems to have worked well for Lodi...but seems to be the whole community that lost acces. Not the individual. FF and FS jumpers are individuals, but to a DZ, 'we' are the wingsuiters. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I think wingsuiting has one big problem compared to other disciplines. We are focussed too much on gear, and too little on skills. In FF or RW there is a very set structure regarding the steps people need to take to get up to the skill levels needed to safely jump in bigger groups. In wingsuit, it seems like having a suit is often deemed enough. Also regarding the incident/accident you mention, how often do you see a person with 5 FreeFly jumps and no formation experience taken onto a 20 way? And thats outside of the actual details on that particular incident (failed FFC etc). Bad judgement calls on the people organizing. Where in any other discipline, going low or not getting to a group end with that person getting coaching/training to get better. In wingsuiting often the advise to 'get this or that suit' is given instead. If you suck in freefly/rw, get coaching, if you suck in a wingsuit, buy a bigger one. If people would focus more on individual flying skills in 2 ways, vs the whole numbers game of who flies the biggest group of people through the sky we'd see a much more controlled and safe type of flying resorting more to building of skills. And to a much lesser degree turn the discipline into a carnaval act that revolves around low skilled skydivers doing dangerous stuff in suits and formations way beyond their experience level. The direction of wingsuiting? I hope one that focussed more on skills, and less on how big the wings you fly are (and if you should get even bigger ones). Any modern (smaller) wingsuit can be made to do amazing things in both distance/time performance as wel as (most important) agility. Learn to fly your body! JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I think its probably closer to 1.5 in the real world. The best scores set at the various tracking competitions (with a lot of wind, and speed built up before the plane-out) are around 1.7 to 1.8 Seeing wingsuit scores also edge towards glide ratios of around 4, where the true glide ratio is probably closer to 3 without all the above influences, Id say a 20 to 25% margin in terms of what the 'real' performance is, is probably a realistic one. As to wingsuit news, sadly the amount (often un-edited) of videos people put online went above what's humanly possible to weed through to find the real gems worth promoting. Facebook sharing also took over a lot of that 'work' over the years. Though I do a lot of stuff for the love of the sport, spending 1 up to 3 hours daily going through tons of youtube and vimeo to keep wingsuit news up and running was starting to become a fulltime job. At the moment there is a lot of personal flying, coaching, editing (and a ws writing project) that have all benefited loads from the extra free time that the coma of wingsuit news gave me. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

With enough wind...maybe yea... I think for both wingsuits and trackingsuits, people have a bit of a skewed view of GPS scores in competitions and actual glide-ratios and how big the influence of a preceding dive and flare is combined with wind. For sure both tracksuits and wingsuits fly far. But not always in the extremes some people are quoting. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

In terms of easy pull and acrobatics/backflying the Havok definately wont dissapoint. It will give you the same ease of flight as the Phantom you're used to, but certainly give you the boost in lift/performance you need to make staying up with groups a lot easier. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Phoenix-Fly gets a lot of emails regarding lead times. Often up to 40/50 a day. We try to answer them to the best of our ability. We always have a rough indication of lead times on the website (bottom of the page with price information). Using this lead time indication as a minimum before asking questions on 'is it there yet' , does help keep the amount of emails to a minimum. Though we of course understand the eager anticipation. A suit ordered February with the current lead time of +- 3,5 months will put it at a delivery time of around mid June (+- depending on exact order date). On some of the newer suits (Viper/V5) template construction for varyious sizes may add a few weeks to that depending on body size. The factory (both facilities) work 6 days a week to produce quality wingsuits, and we hope to slowly bring lead times back down as the summer season progresses. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Sure, the whole ban sucks. But unless all this stupid stuff stops, that isnt going to change and only get worse in the near or far future. Instead of just saying 'yea...that wasnt to bright' you're all getting angry and point and shout 'other disciplines do stupid things as well'. Why not just look at what caused this, and try to fix that problem? As to the thread title. Got to fly the PF Viper indoors in a horizontal windtunnel yesterday. Awesome fun! Facebook JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

It's a bit different compared to how that one had the whole bootie and wing setup. But it's from the same designer...so what do ya know JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I don't fully agree there. Both cutaways seem to have complacency as the root cause. Both jumpers could have made smarter gear decisions, seen the type of suits they jumped. In general we're a safe discipline, but there are (compared to other disciplines like FF and RW) so many people doing dumb things with low deployments, unsafe stunts, stupid gear choices, skimming the airplane tail, outlandings etc etc that (in the eyes of somse DZO's) make us the group that does 10% of the jumps on their DZ, but seemingly causes 50% of the hassle and negative issues. In light of those events, I can see a DZO saying 'screw you guys...'. 2 normal cutaways are usually the result of standard packjobs that don't work accordingly. The cutaways mentioned here, seem to have a mentality problem partly at the basis as a cause. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Only a few people have been flying pre-production models before (basically people close to Mr Pecnik size) for internal review/testing the last few months. The first actual production models have been hitting the streets since about last month. So it shouldnt be long untill you see more videos and talk pop up. The templates for other sizes have had a small delay, due to Robi's finger pointing the wrong way after a landing. But everything is up and running, and the factory is working 6 days a week to bang out suits in the quality everyone is expecting! What happened? JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Something I see a lot is people skipping to another country to avoid their home country rules. Do note, that unless you have another licence like USPA for that country, you will always be jumping anywhere in the world as a BPA jumper. Should there be a problem where you need your (liability and/or medical) insurance, its still your own rules that are being ignored. And the insurance 'could' give you shit for that, and not pay up. A Swedish jumper that needs 500 jumps to wingsuit in Sweden, will need the same 500 jumps to fly elsewhere. And a USPA jumper needing 200 jumps can not go to France and learn to fly at 150 jumps, even though they offer that. For both jumpers, the only 'loophole' regulation wise is to get a local skydiving licence which is also valid for their type of insurance. Its all very technical stuff, not related to safety. But in case you put a dent in an airplane, something worth thinking about. That aside the BPA rules dont make much sense anyways. All these rules, but you can still get away with skipping them with CCI approval. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

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Seeing how some people always go for the 'cheap' GoPro, but by now are onto their 4th one due to upgrades and loosing the odd camera, I think expensive is also a relative term But quality wise, these expensive cameras also shoot in a range where most consumer cameras/DSLRs dont even come close to. Compression wise they shoot in a format similar to RAW on photo cameras. And they often shoot higher framerates and higher resolutions (playing with 5K / Raw / 100 fps footage at the moment). And some of them also allow multiple streams to be shot the same time. So you can shoot, say 30fps and 100 fps footage with different view angles (crop-factor) at the same time to two different cards in the camera. Its a shitload of cash. But you also get quite a lot of quality for that money. Sadly than its the computer and your storage capacity you need to start upgrading as shots at that quality often run into 10 to 20 GB per minute of filmed footage (at higher framerates). JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

Saw a friend with an inline skate wrist protector simply modded into a wrist mount. Also a simple route to go down if you take the home engineering path JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I think many people have jumped the various RED's over the last few years. But in terms of biggest setups, I think Joe Jennings (who regularly jumps a RED as well) jumping the belly mounted IMAX camera, the size of a small fridge for the Wild California IMAX feature, is probably the hands-down winner. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?