DSE

What is there to say about it? Res ipsa loquitur, no? The small format incidents thread (I'm sadly behind on that one) is pretty solid evidence that the recommendation isn't working. BSR seems strong but at the same time, the small cameras are proving to be problematic.

Thanks for the good words, Brian. Any instructional program should be challenging, rating or not. It should never be about ego, but rather teaching and flying skills, and understanding what people need to know in order to provide training in the most safe and informative manner possible, with as many resources as possible. T'is I and a couple of others working towards achieving a Wingsuit Coach/Instructor's rating. It's a long, long shot, and likely impossible (this is the third year it will have been presented). It is a means of consolidating the training methods found in the SIM (which had a group of 14 contributing authors). It's also a means of encouraging those who teach wingsuiting to take responsibility for their training information and methods. Nothing has changed in the proposal from the first one three years ago, except this time we won't have reps from multiple wingsuit manufacturers begging USPA for a rating program. A number of DZO's have been polled, and that's about the only additional information that is being offered. I don't expect this one to be any more successful than the previous attempts, yet it does have a great deal more support than ever before. That's very encouraging.

I chose the CC1 Tonfly. Have had a Rawa helmet. Tonfly goes further over the forehead, is better points of contact, is lighter, has a very sweet cutaway system, and I like the look of it better.

I guess the timer on YouTube must be broken? Glad I had the cache, since you've now changed up the video. That said, please answer the questions I asked? Answer slowly for this boy from Iowa, OK? Seriously, it's always fun when paraglider pilots show up on the DZ. At least 50% of them proclaim how excellent they are, how much more they know about canopy flight and wingsuiting than any of them. Jurgen was the hottest-shit guy in the world (according to him) just before he flew into the side of the van, and then later hooked it in and broke his wrist. Your "dream" is fascinating. I'd truly like to know more about how you expect to build an air-inflated system without an exoskeleton that would support the aspects I mentioned before.

I'm not sure if I understood your post ( my bad english) but the pilot flying on the black/green harness with a small glider in most of the video is me. yes there is a paraglider on the grass near where the camera is mounted and?? My apologies then. There is a woman playing with a zipper for a minute, then she disappears and it's 5 minutes of glider lying in the grass a few feet from the camera. At 7 minutes, she steps back into view and picks up the risers. Your bad english, my lack of knowing which of the several paragliders that are flying far away from the camera is you, I guess I still fail to see the relevance of this video to the topic. Are you genuinely believing that human muscle can replace the lines used to hold a miniparaglider's shape and span? From a non-engineering, math-retarded musician-type person... even I can see that this is not possible. Aside from the span, I don't see anything accounting for the significant drag increase generated by the wider wing. Even if our arms could maintain the sweep and support, we can't support the pressure of the relative wind and additional drag.

I'd imagine anyone would build one for leftie deployment, but the only ones I've actually seen are from Rigging Innovations. I've seen both a TalonFX and a Voodoo assembled for leftie deployment. http://www.rigginginnovations.com

The link goes to a 7.5 minute video of a paraglider sitting on the ground. At 7:00, the pilot eventually comes into view and plays with the risers. The glider does not leave the ground. Good joke tho...that was 8 mins (I slid back to see if I'd missed something) of wasted time. It might not have been a paraglider, it might have been a white sheet with strings tied to it. I'll give it a 5 for shot composition.

Funny you should mention this; this thread had me thinking of my youth when we were promised that trips to the moon would be commonplace by the 80's, that the military would be using DeathRays instead of bullets by the 80s, that we'd all have air-cars by 2000. Living underwater was going to be even more common than going to the moon. Remember LaChaloopa? Humans one day may find a more appropriate evolution of the body and materials, but right now the discussion is more akin to Benjamin Franklin's kite and key vs nuclear reactors. Dreams are great. These are more fantasies of flight. How's that saying go about "pigs flying?"

I have a couple of the funjump gloves, they're great. I like the lens protector built into the glove, and it's so much smaller than the GoPro plastic box/housing.

Tyler sings just fine -in his genre. I didn't find this as bad as your post suggests; I heard Steven Tyler sing as "Steven Tyler." He managed it like a rock concert vs a hymn, but it wasn't *that* horrid, IMO. It was merely 'not very good." That being said....Steven Tyler is one of the most sweet, genuine people you'd ever want to meet. Were it not for his trademark ugliness, you'd never know he was a rock legend if you met him on the street.

You lost me with "blown from head to the ankles." you're talking about a vertical wind tunnel. The wind only comes from beneath/belly (in a normal position. Thing is (I think) that if you're looking to test the plastic wing you've posted photos of...I'd be surprised if anyone would allow you to put that in a tunnel. A hard surface as seen in your pix...even just a screw coming off could do damage to the fans.

secure it to the door and ankles. Already been done. It works. Just be sure to have safety people in there with you.

You're completely right. -The camera didn't pull low. -The camera didn't control the canopy flight. -The camera didn't make the bad decision to be there. It keeps coming back to the person who inserted the camera into the chain. Some people think they're smarter than the average person. Some of them actually are. I'd submit that a few of those in the small-format list are very heads-up and experienced, yet they got caught out. We see the incident lists filled with people that think they are more capable, but clearly aren't. The sad thing is that no matter how much talking, whether from a "you're a dumbass" or "how about looking at this differently" position, some people will never learn, all the while ignorant that they're also putting others lives and property at greater risk.

It is equally delusional to ignore the similarities in the thought process that leads you to think they're different.

Monster has sponsored skydiving events. Although that isn't the point of this thread, is it?

More than inlet improvements, we had a proto at the Performance Cup. Very nice changes. Without going into details, there are inlet changes, some airflow management changes, and some other small, but somewhat significant improvements. T'is a nice change up. The Havok is an incredible suit. Jarno flies that thing like it was a super small suit. It's agile yet has the power of a much bigger suit. Fat guys that want serious acrobatic ability will love it. Light guys that want acrobatics and agility but also want float time will love it.

I didn't know that?! For newbies too? It's only for newbies. Experienced camera flyers aren't going to learn much from me. Norman Kent has a basic and advanced camera flying course too. My course starts with 2 hours of ground discussion, a jump, and then we go to the tunnel once the sun goes down. Then more ground time, 2 more jumps. Like the USPA Coach Course, you get some "oops" opportunities and we evaluate how you respond to them. When you're on the upside of 200 jumps, it seems like a long way off and a meaningless milepost. However, there is a lot to learn, both cognitive and instinctive. When you reach the downside of 200 jumps, you'll quickly realize why the recommendation is referenced by most everyone.

DSE does a camera course too. I think what waveoff is saying is - how can 200 jumps be a definitive number when, in reality, that's an impossible thing to judge and can only really be judged by somebody with with tons of experience both in skydiving, and skydiving with camera. DSE does a wingsuit course - wouldn't it be a good idea that there's a camera course too? I know what your'e saying when you say somebody with over 200 jumps MAYBE able to jump camera - but it's crazy to think that someone has 199 absolutely can not, but somebody with 200 might be able to. I think it's something that you can't put a number on - it has to be a case by case basis, there's no other way - of course you could say you have to have a 200 jump minimum to even be able to take the course and then do it on a case by case basis - which I think is actually what you mean to be honest, or kind of any way.

There is a sports medicine Dr in Orem. He's a distance, but specializes in this. His walls are lined with PRCA, BRO, PBR, MotoX, Skydiving, RockClimbing champion's names. He also does many NFL people, including Steve Young and Brett Favre. PM me if you're interested. He did both my ACL's, and took care of my meniscus. I agree, U of U facility isn't very good on ortho.

I'm a fan of the LookMa wedge mount. It doesn't hurt others if you bump (carbon fiber hurts). It can be right or left (you specify). They slip on/off very fast. Our school uses them for most wingsuit students, whether they want a Galaxy, Altitrack, or VISO on the mudflap. My personal rigs have the mount on the left side, a couple of our rental units are either sided.

Passion is passion, and it saddens me to think all most see is someone who was injured exploring what drives them to live. Heal fast, Jeb.

Which one of my half-dozen posts where I've said I cannot/do not support SOPA or PIPA did you miss? I don't support the model. I do support the idea of very strict laws for theft of IP. However, the original assertion (paraphrased) was that "since people will always find ways of pirating...we don't need laws anyway" is pretty silly. People can always find ways to get into your pockets, speed down the highway, or get into your bank or credit card account. Because "people will always find ways" to do something, does that mean we as a society of laws, should not make laws to prosecute those that "do find ways?" Would you support that? If we had a system through which everyone's paycheck value was controlled by social access to it, I'm sure we'd see a very different attitude about piracy.

that's entirely besides the point (as you know). Arguing that people are going to steal anyway, so laws don't need to be made, is a ridiculous argument. More to the point, as types of media shift, as society moves into new directions heretofore unseen, and as monetizing access becomes a question of convenience, of course the laws are going to shift and change. Once upon a time we had a national speed limit of 55mph to conserve fuel. As society shifted, as fuel access shifted, and as the economy shifted, many states changed their laws to be different from the initial nation-wide agreements. Some states ended up changing their laws recently while others waited. It's a new electronic frontier. Laws are going to be difficult to create for a while, let alone enforce. SOPA was written out of worthy intent, it just went over the reasonable edge.

The Triathlon is a terrific canopy for wingsuiting.

The penalties are not that bad in most cases that have had convictions. Worst case is a couple of years in prison and a few years probation after the case gets plead down several times. This is due to the juries not understanding the crimes. Same thing for IP theft. If you compare that to a bank robber that walks in and pulls a gun there are worlds of difference in the sentencing process and end results even though the hacker might have got away with a lot more money in the end. Hence my point about laws that "allow for." People aren't in an uproar about how laws related to online banking are written, they're only up in arms because someone might make it more difficult to download their illegal torrents.