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Whichever spin works, Brian... However...you are incredibly responsible in your downsizing advice and advocacy. You're taking exactly the opposite approach in wingsuiting, and I'll say it more clearly; A person who needs and is asking advice on managing flatspins in a large suit has no business being in one. Hint: It's the same in a large suit as it is in a small suit, and should be a skill/technique learned very early on. Most of our students for example, know this by their fifth wingsuit jump. It's a staple in any properly-taught wingsuit training program.

USPA can't do anything to the rig manufacturers. USPA could pressure PIA, which in turn...

http://skyvideo.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/live-live-with-no-regrets-recovery-road-part-one/ Just over 5 months from broken back/pelvis to next jump.

I'm sensitive to the context based on how skydivers reacted to the flag weight dropped through a trailer roof a couple weeks ago. Skydivers ripped on the homeowner for being dramatic "It almost killed my daughter." The size of the hole is what it is. A missile of lethal ability came through the roof of their house. Only the contractors that came out to assess the damage can make a call as to the cost. God forbid they track this down to a skydiver. Two objects dropped by skydivers, going through the roof of a dwelling, within a two week span...scary thought if the FSDO wants to make it challenging.

so the people whose house this fell through are assholes, because they're being charged for the repair? Seriously? Did they bargain for a lens to come shooting out of the sky from a plane, parachutist, glider? Is it reasonable to expect gliders, airplanes, balloon, skydivers to drop something through the roof of a home? Why are they bad people when a large, heavy lens goes through their roof unannounced?

Nope...it's not. But the question needs to be "why?" Big suits are killing people right and left, and most of those folks couldn't fly a small suit, let alone a big one. WARNING: Conservative old guy ahead: Brian, we share a strong respect for each other, but this particular video with statements of "biggest" etc don't do the discipline any good, but does have a fair amount of "bad." How about putting on a small suit and showing everyone the same kind of skills that you demonstrate with a small canopy, PPG, etc? It would be a lot more respectable, serve as the same kind of benchmark you normally seem to want to set, and help newer wingsuiters see the path that many of us work hard to promote (safety/skill over stupid sizes). I'd prefer to see you boasting the landing of a 20' canopy than being in a super size suit without first having mastered smaller suits to their max potential. Your question in the Wingsuit room has a lot of people buzzing in the background. It was akin to a very experienced swooper asking "How do I flare?"

If you don't need full automation, Vegas Movie Studio is plenty powerful.

You doing hamstring or cadaver? Done both allograft and hamstring. Allograft is easier. First week is hell; be sure they give you an ice pump. Outside of that, don't slack on the PT and the pain is minimal. Pain scales are relative. Before my fragmented pelvis and CRPS, my knee was a 9. Now...the knee is maybe a 5.

For me, it's Vegas, particularly if speed is the need. With tools like Production Assistant, the process can be automated from card insertion. If you had to render multiple videos at once, Vegas allows your single machine to act as though it is many machines. It's the only app that can Xfer, edit, render multiple video projects at one shot.

Perhaps get someone to fly outside vid for you. You're rolling your wrist over, yes? Might be a good idea to return to basic deployment techniques, both arms in. It's not difficult in the V4 if you're breaking at the elbow, but if you're leaving the elbow pushed forward, not so easy. Are you stalling at deployment altitude? Can you get your hands on a "tweener" suit such as a Ghost? [edit: take the advantage of the post above mine if you can]

Hey gang, if you're an FCPX user, check out the update apple released today. It (hopefully) fixes the green frames when using AVCHD footage from Canon, Panasonic, and Sony cameras, and XAVC from Sony 4K. Allegedly, it fixes slowmo exports too. Been playing with it for the last hour, seems to be good. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/final-cut-pro/id424389933?mt=12&ls=1

Haven't seen the Jedi up close, but based on what I've heard, you're right. But the video and links say it's the "largest wingsuit in the world." There are a few larger, that one can buy "off the shelf" and have been available for years. And yes, the Viper is likely the biggest "stock" suit available (for now).

Key words, "many moons ago." I'm aware of two wingsuits in two different regions being taught sub 100 jumps in the past year. Neither RD wanted to do anything with it. I suspect this'll be much the same. That said, I've had a private conversation with BOD members that voted in favor, and I do believe this was a good action *if* it's worded correctly in the final write up, and *if* it's waiverable for those unique situations. For example, no one could possibly ever take on Mr. Stoke's 642 jumps in 24 hours, Pat Morehead's 80, etc without a waiver allowing 2K openings. Demos and AFF come to mind as well.

It's also not the "largest wingsuit in the world." There are photos of the one called the "CC1" or "Car Cover 1" going back a few years, and it's still likely the largest suit every flown. Just sayin...

Being told "Mac is easy" is true. For email, cruising the web, or Facetime. Past that, they're virtually identical in most every way. My main axe is a MacBook Pro and my secondary is a G5. Both are running Boot Camp (an application that allows me to run Windows 7 on my Mac). I run Premiere, Media Composer on both sides, Sony Vegas on the PC partition, and FCPX on the Mac side. If I want to get things done, I work in Premiere (runs on Mac and PC) and if I want to get things done fast, and compositing/Zplane won't be part of the process, I use Vegas. Editing on a Mac is slower. Period. If it's a multi-use machine and having cute graphics is important, and doing things the "Apple way" works for you, then get a Mac. I would not use/own Mac if my work did not require one. The PC-side runs significantly faster for any MPEG-based video format, and the formats play nicely between all editing applications. iMovie doesn't play nicely with FCPX, and FCPX doesn't play nicely with Premiere. Premiere, Vegas, Canopus, Avid, MovieMaker etc all play nicely with each other. And you'd save a butt-load of cash on a PC. However, Mac's are overall better built, sexier to look at, and you'll get laid more often if you use one. Form over function, any day.

how many jumps on other suits/types? The V4 isn't any different than any other suit.

Yes. They have. With varying results. Until a different method is shown that demonstrates consistency, I'll keep teaching the method that works for P1's to Apache's (and have video of both extremes).

I feel 2.2K is a good hop n' pop altitude. Perhaps not for the first hop n' popper, but plenty good for an experienced skydiver, particularly swoopers. Getting out with a wingsuit at 3K is always fun too.

Nice vid. Your title is confusing tho. People have been jumping WS in Norway for over a decade.

I hope these help. GoPro 2 is stills, Sony is video.

It's a paper rule, one that AAD manufacturers can dismiss some liability with, and I get that. So...manufacturers have asked USPA to help with wingsuit training too. In 2012 alone, I'll wager wingsuit issues cost USPA and its members more $$ than every single AAD fatality over the history of the sport.The wingsuit membership asked over several polls, that USPA enact some sort of wingsuit training mechanism. USPA BOD ignored that request. Maybe one person out of a thousand knew USPA was considering raising the container-open altitude but it handily passed the board with zero membership commentary (I wrote to members of the BOD opposing it)

That already happened. And nothing happened. Wish you'd made it to the board this time, Craig.

OK, I'll follow your thought. ~USPA raises container opening altitudes. ~AAD manufacturers raise activation altitudes, as now liability in doing so remains as-is. How exactly, does that financially benefit the AAD manufacturers any more than they're already enjoying? If your argument is "if this then that, it's a specious argument, but if you have a different point, I'm open to being enlightened. Bear in mind, I'm not a fan of the new BSR. I think USPA could have addressed much more important issues than this one, driven by an emotional response to recently having lost old friends.

Cliff Schmucker wanted them raised as well. He spoke with me about it at two different PIA's (one on video, I'm just too lazy to find the link). If this is your 'evidence' that Booth is responsible, I've got evidence that proves Jimmy Hoff was killed by a veterinarian (he hated dogs).

Just a fast point; GoPro isn't winning any love with the problems with the GP3Black, and now many pro's have quit using them citing the nearness of the new model. The Sony AS 15 is being used daily by several videographers here at Skydive Elsinore and at several other DZ's as well. There is nothing wrong with it that any other camera doesn't have wrong with it (I hate microSD and hard-to-access USB ports on all of them). I'm a fan of a quality camera, but have also faced the reality that overall it's a race to the bottom. Cheaper, smaller, less creative cameras turn the trick on a tandem dropzone. Having spent all of today jumping a 27lb camera, I see the attraction. If I was doing 10 jumps a day with tandems, I'd want Sony/GoPro/Replay too. And they're disposable. 3D is dying/dead at every level, so I'd leave that completely out of the conversation. For web-delivered photography, any of the action cams are just fine. So is your iPhone or Droid.