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Did you see the video of LB posted last week? WS'ers lined up with an hour plus wait. "mainstream" is a term that no one likely ever thought would be associated with BASE.

Yes it works. but could create some issues depending on your helmet and skill. OIS is always a problem in freefall. the OIS on the 550 can be shut down, but the suspension system is still active. This will be problematic. Read through the other threads and you'll find a comparison of the 100 vs the 550 in a video.

This would suggest you're changing framerate or media speed/timewarp. Does it blur/ghost on the timeline? It's also possible you're seeing interlacing which is sometimes incorrectly identified as ghosting. The way to immediately check this is to set your project properties to Progressive, and set the Blending method to interpolate. then render to see if the ghosting goes away.

On November 19-21, We're holding a Wingsuit Vertical Skills camp! The Vertical Skills Camp will be to teach vertical formation flying (Think "3D") and we'll be putting up a mix of vertical formations and horizontal formations. This camp is primarily aimed at intermediate and above wingsuit skydivers, however anyone can attend and will be part of the formations. This is also an audition camp for the 25 Way Vertical Invitational being held in Z-Hills, January 2011. Slots for this event are limited, so sign up early! Call Elsinore Manifest for more details. Registration is 25.00

I signed, but gotta disagree with you in part. In 1995, working on "Echoes of Tenaya," we had a film permit (very expensive even back then). Climbers were not allowed on the face, but BASE jumpers hosed the morning shots. When the rangers approached them, the BASE jumpers and rangers had quite an argument. I'm told they left a mess on top, but didn't see it for myself. We're our own worst enemies. Both sides have hopefully matured because if by any chance this movement wins some relief, it won't take much to lose it again.

I posted this in Speakers Corner because the CD is called "In Uniform." It's a free album of songs written for our men and women in uniform. The work is typical Isham, which means that it's very good. http://www.isham.com/ You do have to give up an email address and zipcode to get the music.

happy happy fun lady! Thanks for all the great things you do for me and others around S'nore. It is very appreciated.

in water in an attempt to swim with goldfish. Seriously, a young wingsuiter had a cutaway due to an entanglement between his main/riser and camera helmet. Cutaway his main and lost his cam helmet in the process. Landed his reserve in the channel just west of the polo field at North Shore. Skydiver is safe, just red=faced He was jumping a fairly new Ghost, He did recover his main from the sea, just lost his helmet and CX camcorder. He had watched the water training. Whether it helped or not, I don't know. More to the story as it comes in.

IMO, GoPro's look like crap at any distance farther than 2-3' away. they're not for outside video (imo) The LAST thing you want is a newbie camera flyer in that close. CX series with a .5 lens are great for newbies.

As responded in my PM. ~you're not going to find any camera worth owning for $70.00 ~even if you did, it would be terrible quality compared to what the videographer would shoot ~You'll be missing out on the skydive, because you'd be messing with your camera. ~since your camera puts you and your TI at risk, most places won't allow you to carry a camera anyway. ~even if they did let you, there is a significant risk you'd lose it, putting others (on the ground) at risk. $70.00 is cheap for a videographer on a jump.

Carry a stash bag to keep it clean and protected from the parking lot, trunk, spilled sode, etc. It's a fairly common practice.

Can't think of much that I'd like more.

Because everything allowed by the FAA is perfectly safe including doing your first jump at night solo over the ocean. In a wingsuit with a camera on your head, foot, chest. And smoke. Can't forget the smoke. And a buddy to take video. He should be at least as experienced as you on your first.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/A-skydiving-entrance-for-a-high-school-game-ball?urn=highschool-275049 this is terrific, in that it's a high school game, no one got hanged up, no one fell down, crowd loved it, and it made Yahoo.

I was merely trying to mollify John and hopefully keep his consistent rants against the coach program out of the wingsuit forum. The USPA Coach rating already has a challenge-course option. AFAIK, it always has. I had a student attempt to pass the USPA Coach course with me last June, she's a teacher with 3K jumps. She was unsatisfactory on the ground and in the air both. By not attending the class, she did not possess the information she needed in order to understand the precepts that drive the program. I also took my AFFI course with somene who challenged the course, and the I/E told them they'd probably better either challenge the course later or spend more time in the pre-course classes. And now we're smack-dab into the discussion I'd hoped to avoid. I truly doubt anyone with or without a teaching certificate could pass the USPA or PF Coach programs without participating in the courses. But of course, they're welcome to try if sparing one day of their lives is that important.

Better...we shoulda JUMPED it. it would hold up for a single jump. The banner is at Elsinore...maybe we'll have another gathering.

Do us both a favor. Close Vegas, hold CTRL+SHIFT and boot Vegas. Hold CTRL+SHIFT until Vegas opens. this will reset Vegas to factory settings. If your friend set up audio for 192 (I'd be surprised if your hardward supports that) then heaven only knows what other prefs and properties were changed out. DVDA should be 48k, 16bit.

That makes it really easy for me as an examiner.

you musta done that, because Vegas sure didn't. No. Audio should default to 48k, 16bit.

Jarno, I don't feel this is accurate. The instruction was for military instructors to teach at the Air Force Academy, not the civilian world. Like you (and probably everyone else), I was really surprised to read the line about "at local DZs for FFC's" etc.., Scott threw JT to the wolves with that one, but I'd chatted with JT about this before Scott's post was made and JT was very clear that he had no plans nor accessibiility to be teaching civilians on dropzones for a very long while. In other words, I don't know that the new BMI's have any intention of teaching in the outside world, or whether that was just something Scott invented without their input. I'd still like to hear from Scott whether this was a waiver issued to the military, and/or whether this has been waived in the past. It's not a far stretch for a newly minted BMI to say "Well, I got my BMI at 80 jumps and everything was fine, so it's not a big deal to train up this newbie at 150 jumps," and so on. This is (admittedly) how I feel the PF program AND the BM programs got watered down over the past decade. [edit] Thank you, HH for unlocking the thread.

if you read some of those reviews, it's *too* dumb

Nice try, Robin... USPA cannot compel dropzones to spend exceptionally high dollars for different training methods than those already in place. USPA can control how they spend our money. Where in that thread is anyone defending how USPA is spending our money? Umm...no where. It's just another one of your fantasies. I'll give ya this, you're a great creative writer. You know this as well as I do, and the truth is, I'm the bigger fool for continuing the discussion with you.

Not quite true...there are significant differences between many of them. One thing for sure, they all open up to release a canopy or two. I'm an RI fanboy. I've got two Talon FX and two Voodoo's. Started with a Stunts Eclipse, went to a used Wings, then a used Talon FS. Really, really love my Voodoo's.

okay, thanks. Appreciated. How would you know? You don't even know what I wrote (or did)... and really, what part of "teach survival skills first, fun skills second" isn't relevant today? Still awaiting your answer. My answer is the same one I put in a different explanation above, but if you wanna poke... Advocacy of replacing/supplementing AFF with SL/IAD is strained at best because it's not practical. Many DZ's won't go for it for any number of reasons. So...dream of your Utopia all you wish. Utopia will always be there for you. But back in the world of reality... Canopy training emphasis in the existing structure, supplanted with better training methods, can be very effective, I believe. Tools like the ParaSim are terrific teaching tools too, but you're not going to see the USPA mandate those at every GM DZ either. Work within the parameters of reality, maybe we can have a real discussion, Robin. Now please, i've got to get back to my Munchkins slaving away in my candyland.

The biggest issue, IMO, is that Scott Campos, BMCI said " All three are located in the Colorado area and will also be available for FFCs at local DZ's. " A lifelong electrician in the military still is only an apprentice in the "outside" world. Once an instructor steps off the military reservation into the civilian world, the rules apply, don't they? [edit] to reiterate, I think the way JT is going about this for the military is terrific, and support him and his program in every way. Short of handing him a PFC rating until he meets all requirements. He knows this, we discussed it prior to all this bruhaha. Sucks that the AFA program is being dragged into a discussion of this sort. It would be so much easier if it were the civilian world.