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  1. DSE
    You're probably right about the options. And you're entirely right about bad pilots in big suits/good pilots in small suits. However, as many DZs will quickly point out, *most* of the problems come from jokers in big suits too soon, landing off or creating problems for other wingsuiters simply because they can't bother to take the time to get their skills on a fractional percentage par with their ego. There are some guys who can actually fly big suits well. There are huge flocks of them who cannot. This video https://vimeo.com/76577431 demonstrates a "world class pilot" in a Squirrel Swift, who frequently lands off during coached jumps. You're entirely right. There are crappy pilots in small suits. But on the whole, I'll wager that there are a lot more poor pilots in big suits than in small suits. If nothing else, at least WS is once again possible at Lodi. Kudos to the people that have worked to bring wingsuiting back to that DZ.
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    Aside from the fact that a class of eight means paying at least two additional persons to assist in teaching... Printing/developing materials isn't free It's likely time taken away from a "real job" Most importantly, it took your C/E considerably more than eight hours and two nights to become an Examiner (assuming your C/E took no shortcuts). Receiving a fraction of his/her investment in their education is appropriate. If the Examiner you've selected is a good one, with a good course, the fee is well within line. It makes me wonder if I should raise my rate a bit. If the Examiner you selected is a good one, the course will be much longer than eight hours.
  3. DSE
    Except you'll probably want to spell "illegally" correctly.
  4. DSE
    And now Ford has lost his budget. Was first tragic and then hilarious watching him runaround the chambers, and then knock over a female councillor. Forgive my ignorance, has this ever happened in American politics at a city level where a elected official was stripped of all of his powers, since he can't be "un-elected?"
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    And...the council just voted 41-2 to strip the mayor of some of his powers. Watching him fight it is a comedy on its own.
  6. DSE
    no, wasn't taken today, but there were many of them in the square during the council meeting. Still a lot of people in the square now. It's certainly been interesting listening to the arguments.
  7. DSE
    Thousands of people in the square right now, protesting/demanding he resign. Pretty crazy, the kinds of signs I'm seeing people carrying. One, he looks like Breshznev (ford's image wearing a Cossack hat). Watching him scream at other councillors about their own drug use is pretty funny. The guy is a whackjob, reminiscent of Rush Limbaugh. http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/06/ford_protest_20130601_27158823.jpg
  8. DSE
    Says the guy that doesn't own aircraft or the DZ or pays for the fuel that flies the plane. Multiple passes on occasion are necessary. Making them part of every jump run becomes prohibitively expensive. Multiple passes are not necessary in most cases. To answer your opinion that students are getting out too far upwind and not making the holding area, perhaps this is a DZ-specific problem? I'm sure not seeing that situation at any of the several DZs I jump at.
  9. DSE
    It's the left over Xmor (Sony has already moved on to a new series). It's the "next thing" and an alternative to GoPro, but the image processing tools are identical. Various bullet points can be keyed, however. Wait til Jan 15...you're gonna see a FLOOD of POV.
  10. DSE
    most of the new action cams are similar to the GoPro, excepting codec/bitrate. Most of them are all using the same processing chip GoPro uses.
  11. DSE
    Every highly experienced skydiver has made a screwup at some point in time. I once called a spot against high uppers over a mountainous region, and it was only because I knew of an off-landing location that we got everyone to a safe place. I fucked up in the airplane. It could have been much worse, and every person received a direct The scenario displayed in this thread and relevant videos is different. It was pre-meditated, and although the skill displayed demonstrates that Bones was capable, the reactions and skills of others cannot possibly have been anticipated. I have had limited interaction with Simon, and have had a very high respect for him. But the two videos make it pretty clear as to the intent. Simply not taking a grip would have been enough, without affecting the safety of those around, for example. Not participating in the jump would have been a passive protest. There are options that would not have put others in harms way.
  12. DSE
    They may be 'discussing' but I also suspect no one on the Board of Directors has the balls to do it. They have had two fatalities where similar actions came into play, one of them where several emails were sent about a fatality waiting to happen before it did. Then when it did occur, they didn't do squat. Then there was the event where the Comp Committee received evidence that a record event had been altered in Photoshop. They rescinded the record, no action taken against the organizer that allegedly Photoshopped the record. Then there was a student injured in high winds/violation of BSR. No action taken against the AFFI or the DZ. This is a new board, but it's a board mostly comprised of non-skydivers, and those that do skydive represent their own dropzones vs representing skydivers. USPA themselves cannot take any action. Only the BOD can do so, and direct the USPA to act accordingly.
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    I'm somewhat surprised that no one has brought up an Article 1-6 investigation from USPA. It is quite relevant.
  14. DSE
    why do you want p60? It's mostly for acquisition, not for playback.
  15. DSE
    http://skyvideo.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/skydive-elsinore-wingsuit-school-video-guides/ I'm too lazy to type much. -Learn to navigate. -Practice flying slow, making the transition to flying slow, learning how to stop. -Stay in 2-ways or very small groups until you can on-command, climb or drop in relative altitude to others without falling back in your slot. Prove to yourself that you can have 25 flights without linetwists or other deployment issues before putting a GoPro on your head. Have fun! You're in Orlando, LOTS of good WS'rs in that area.
  16. DSE
    What IS a 'fast flier'? I want to know. Is it a belly 200lb guy or skinny 140lb head down guy? Which of them goes first... and why? How many of US knows this for sure and do we? Fast horizontal or fast vertical?
  17. DSE
    There are ways to significantly reduce risk of linetwists during deployment while wearing a wingsuit. A knowledgeable WS instructor knows exactly how to minimize this problem, and in proper training, linetwists are ridiculously rare. So yes... If you're getting linetwists on every jump, or even frequent linetwists, then yes...it suggests poor training. Linetwists on deployment have contributed to fatalities in the past, so please don't be thinking linetwists are 'no big deal'. They are.
  18. DSE
    you're rendering to p60. That alone is killing the encoder, based on what appears to be a not-optimal system. You're also losing a lot of quality rendering the submaster to .mp4, then re-encoding to mp4 again. The data doesn't show the bitrate, but that's not terribly important (and I'm too lazy to do the math). Anyway...I'd have rendered the subs to something more manageable, such as sequential png or even uncompressed. The issue *likely* is that your system can't manage the decode/encode at the same time. If you still have the master project (before you rendered the subclips) then you might be able to still set the RAM to zero, and try a master render from there.
  19. DSE
    OK, we're missing an important component of the conversation. If you're rendering the individual clips to mp4, you may well be pushing the CPU beyond its limits. Right click one of the subclips/previously rendered clips. Open the Properties menu, and grab a screenshot of the "General Properties" tab such as the one attached here. That'll help a lot
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    The project settings don't address the bitrate nor output format/file format. They only address framerate and resolution for display/project purposes. You had to have chosen a format for output. It may have been mp4, uncompressed, XDCAM, DV, HDV, REAL, Windows Media/WMV, mpeg2 any number of formats. This is likely where you're getting bogged down, not understanding file formats and what you're outputting.
  21. DSE
    Then they're idiots. I'd really like to see a video of an FFC (in a proper suit) in a flat spin. I'd even pay $$ for it. Linetwists are incredibly rare, when proper instruction is part of the process. If linetwists are common, then the teaching method is incorrect. A proper instructor would have had you do an FFC without the suit, a jump without the suit, and evaluate you from there. Then again, we've only taught around 800 FFCs at our school, so your instructor might know more than we do.
  22. DSE
    A lot of people parrot tracking hard before getting into WS. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Teach enough students, and the ability to "foresee the future" becomes fairly easy. Since you're at the same DZ as Andy or Feather, ask them about several student predictions they saw come true over the summer (Including how students with a lot of tracking experience did on their FFC). It ain't rocket science, but being body aware is much much more important for the early stages of wingsuiting than tracking skill. Being able to fly to others, being able to understand your body position relative to the earth when unstable, knowing what inputs accomplish what results is more valuable than knowing how to drive from point A to point B.
  23. DSE
    Any canopy, docile or not, Dacron or not, speedbag or not, magnetic riser covers or not, can bite. No doubt. There are a lot of things we can do to mitigate the risk of a hard opening, and these canopies go a long way towards that. So will a stowless bag. So will proper packing techniques aimed at slowing openings. However, if a physical condition exists where any hard opening could create a bigger problem, perhaps the decision to jump should be rethought more carefully. That's truly the only way to be 100% sure that a greater injury won't occur.
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    Silly me, I thought half the guys were padding their logbook, not doing hop n' pops. Good to know you feel it's OK to bust a BSR. Once we start re-interpreting the rules, it doesn't take long to spiral down to whatever interpretation someone wants to make. Might as well start letting AFF's jump in 18 mile an hour winds, I mean...it's only a 'little' more than allowed, right? If he landed off due to line twists, that's a small indicator of poor instruction, albeit that linetwists are very rare when properly taught. Add in that an "instructor" took him before he had the required number of jumps, it's a reasonably solid indicator that it was poor instruction. Poor instruction leads to more poor wingsuiters creating problems for DZOs.
  25. DSE
    I still don't know the source files. If the source is a rendered video already, then it's no longer files from a GoPro. it's something else.