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Baking instructions I hope "new to the sport" doesn't mean you are already jumping camera without the recommended experience. Please read the sticky. Good luck with the helmet!

So, lessee....you copied an email that was partially written by someone else (I'll assume Lyal) and partially written by me. It's pretty clear. 200 jumps is 200 jumps. I didn't write the part about B or C CoP. My understanding is/was that a C CoP and 200 jumps are recommended by CSPA. If that's not the case, mea culpa, I trusted Lyal on that aspect. Either way, it's pretty clear. 200 jumps is 200 jumps. As are other things *I* require that CSPA doesn't such as audible, AAD, hard helmet, non-elliptical main, low wingloading etc.

Update Vegas. Then you don't need to convert.

Bullshit. Lyle very clearly published the requirements to the best of my knowledge. At no point was there any offer to train anyone that didn't meet the requirements of a C CoP, 200 jumps, logbook demonstrating as much, and had I not been injured, the instruction would have included rigging, gear choices, heading, pilot communication, deployment, and emergency procedures. I did fly with one person (not a coached nor instructional jump) that didn't meet the requirements, who had already been jumping a wingsuit for "a while." I suggest you ask Lyle about our several discussions that took place before I agreed to do the FFC weekend, before making bullshit comments such as this one. Glen, re-read the 50knot comment. "Aloft" would mean "exit altitude."

The gear failure I was referring to was a hackey that allegedly came off a PC at deployment time (wingsuit jump). Dunnow where you got the idea I'm a Tonysuits guy. I own more Birdman and PF than I do Tonysuits. In fact, I'm considering taking the BMI course just so I can learn the famous Birdman "pout" that the models in their magazines do. I'm aware of at least two additional instances where wingsuiters forgot their legstraps and exited. My submission is that the lace-up wings are what prevented these jumps from becoming a fatality. In the case of Dan Kulpa/Sebastian, you're entirely correct; the suit operated 100% as it was designed to operate.

That's likely enough information right there. You may not have an AC3 decoder that works, and SMPU is *very* well known to have problems.

Objective evidence: ~wingsuiters landing off and breaking bones and incurring other injuries. ~wingsuit instructors being told by other wingsuit instructors (on video) to not take a particular student because that student couldn't handle the jump. Student subsequently breaks themselves. ~wingsuiters colliding in clouds breaking bones ~wingsuiters routinely landing off ~wingsuiters colliding in clear air, breaking bones ~wingsuiters flying so far off-heading they end up in water. ~wingsuit students being taken up in 50Kt winds aloft ~wingsuiters with gear failure ending up dead ~wingsuiters with low jump numbers ending up dead. Subjective responses; "It's all their fault, they are experienced skydivers and should know better." Tough shit. "The system didn't provide them enough information to know what they didn't know, and therefore didn't know to find information that might have saved them from incident. Change the system With a lot of room for discussion in between. The incidents cannot be disputed. The question is whether there are enough incidents to justify change. In other words, at what level of injury/fatality does one begin to "give a shit?" and want to do something about it. Any standard is better than no standard.

Baking it makes a big diff.

I do believe I've personally written (and thanked you for your research, and even thanked you for your powerpoint. Failing that, thank you (once again).

That is a clear personal attack, Mr. Moderator. It's not at all a personal attack John. We have strongly differing philosophies. Yours is one of bending contexts to suit your purpose, mine is one of being willing to listen to reason. It's kind of like the coaching thread where you consistently took the position that because you're a professional teacher, no one can teach you anything about teaching. I'm a multi-Grammy, Emmy, DuPont award winner but you'll find me believing I have something to learn from all my contemporaries regardless of their years of experience (or lack of it). No amount of argument is going to convince you that you're not correct in a subjective debate. Ever. Patently clear; brought up in dozens of posts over the years on this website.

I had about 30 minutes with a beta unit. That's about it. Obviously no skydive with it. The processing unit is the same as the CX100, with a lot of bells n' whistles such as a bladed aperture (BMFin will like the bokeh for ground shooting). But... It's a gyro-balanced lens set. I'm not certain, but I'll stick my neck out and say that it can't be locked down. To stop any confusion, you're going to see "60p output" in the marketing of this camera. It's 60p OUTPUT but it still records 60i. It's doing frame blending/interpolation in the output module, not in the record module. Rack focus is easy with this cam, which is a nice feature. Basically, it behaves more like a fixed-lense SLR, but it still is a gyro-based stabilizer. Therefore, neither model will likely work for skydiving. The GPS is cool though.

I have never, ever suggested Dan's death was due to instructor failure. To suggest I ever have is a bullshit argument, and demonstrates the fucked-up cowardice of some in and of itself. I don't blame anyone for Dan's death but Dan. Was he managed the way *I* would have managed his instruction? No. But that doesn't mean the instructor failed. The system failed. And it's that system that motivated myself and others trying to make a difference. Take your shots at me. I'm the guy approached by BOD members of the USPA nearly a year ago about the potential for this sort of program. I assembed a group of what I feel are some of the best wingsuiters in the USA. We fought a lot, we argued more than we needed to, but we all had one common goal; making wingsuiting better, safer, and to set a standard of excellence for an instructional standard. It improves on the excellent foundation set forth by Chuck Blue and others when the BMI program was begun, and reflects current wingsuiting needs that could not have been foreseen a decade ago. "I began working on a WSI program back in July of 2008." I'd been considering it much earlier than that. Do I feel Race Price' death contributed somewhat to my motivations? You bet it did. I've been to boogies and wingsuit events all over the world in the last 18 months but I (and others) observed a lot of poor wingsuit safety behavior and awareness. At my own DZ, I can name three occasions where an "instructor" has taught someone in his living room and then sent the student (sans instructor) to jump on his own. No last moment review, no gear checks, no nothing. A BMI. But hey, there's no problem here at all, right? I'm not the first to have begun thinking this way. There are at least two other groups that have put together proposals and a ratings suggestion. The difference is, they don't have the balls to stand up for what they've got to say. Getting back to the origins instead of looking for needles in the bullshit, all I'm seeing is words masking fear and desperation for being acountable for instructor's actions, which at the end of the day, is really all the WSI rating is about. What else is it you're so afraid of? Having a well-written national instructional standard is better than no standard at all. Most everyone can at least agree on this. Pretty sad that when a group of people try to make a difference for the better they're tarred and feathered for it as opposed to a rational, intelligent discussion. Oops, it's the internet. What was I thinking? Those nasty, cowardly, anonymous emails are greatly appreciated. And the guy that showed up at the hospital to "beat me up?" It takes BIG balls to threaten someone in critical condition in the ICU. Wow. The machismo in the wingsuit community is stunning.

Bring me another Rock

Happy Birthday, Pat. Looking forward to seeing you this weekend!

Since this request (in various forms) has been put forth by several people now, I'm starting to wonder if it's being intentionally ignored. An "inconvenient question" perhaps? Still no answer - I guess it's being intentionally ignored. Nothing can be proven to fix anything, regardless of whether we're talking about bug spray or hitting Mars with a probe. No answer regardless of how intelligent or unintelligent it may be, will not satisfy you. Fatalities and bad instruction tend to bother me; you don't give a shit.We differ in philosophy.

The index file is part of the original card file structure. If you've formatted the card, it's gone. See attached photo for diagram of card structure

Rendering to AVCHD MPEG 4 is a HUGE task that many systems cannot manage. If you're running most anti-virus, forget it; it'll never happen. MPEG 2 in HD resolutions is a higher quality format, requires less proc time (in some cases, the proc has allowances for MPEG 2 decode/encode), etc. Did you change your rendering threads? (CTRL/SHIFT while loading Prefs?) And you got "little change" in the end result? Are you running anti-virus?

I thought the only rule for BASE is "Don't die." If you do die, clean up your mess so you don't burn the site.

Danny, there is a cloud "briefing" that accompanies getting a *cloud stamp* in your log book. It's not fast, it's fairly intense, you've got to have a certain number of jumps, and even then....the intelligent jumpers don't go if the clouds are marginal, nor will the pilot fly if the clouds are obviously thick. Australians, IMO, are overall better skydivers than most of those you'll meet of equal experience in the USA.

Shot by Fast/Derek at SkyKnights in Easy Troy...

Vegas Movie Studio 9 certainly does work very well for AVCHD from the CX100, and for the SD MPEG files as well. Adobe Premiere CS4 with the update does a good job, Canopus Edius is very good as well. SpeedEdit from NewTek is very good tool too. If you're not able to get Vegas Movie Studio to work, then you've either installed it wrong, are using a pirate version, or have a very, very old PC. In the event of the latter, _nothing_ will run AVCHD very well.

Can you open the index file and see if there is an indicator of corrupted info? Not at all doubting what you're saying (haven't had mine in moisture) but have now seen one instance of a dirty card contact set creating problems. The EX (which uses Xpress cards) performed very well when being sprayed with a water bottle.

you very much can get a copy of the DVD in EU, just go to the vasst website and order it. That said, i'm locking the thread as this is a "Classifieds" post. Please post your request there.

Since this request (in various forms) has been put forth by several people now, I'm starting to wonder if it's being intentionally ignored. An "inconvenient question" perhaps? I don't consider the "putting your head in the sand" cliche a substantive answer either (if that is the official response). And if the train metaphor isn't going away, we'd like to see what copy of the schedule you're all looking at, cuz some of us aren't convinced one is on the way. Yeah... I'm at work on a Saturday instead of the DZ. Laugh it up. I'm not. In light of the APF, BPA recently passing programs, doesn't that alone suggest change is in the wind? What do you suppose motivated the president of the USPA to write such an editorial if there isn't a desire to at least open a discussion at an administrative level? It seems to me the answer to the question was self-evident and didn't need to be repeated (again) since it's been mentioned in at least four posts in this thread. Either way, I suppose it doesn't matter at this point. it's only a matter of time before another newbie wingsuiter burns in, takes out a tandem, hits an airplane, or has an off landing that turns into a nasty situation. And the "correct" answer will be "they're an experienced skydiver, they knew what they were doing when they jumped out of the plane."

Sometimes AFF jumps go that way too, and even the best "super" AFF instructor heroes in the world can't get to a rogue student either. Let's just do away with that program.