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James has created his own directory and added some notes:
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I'll be there. And you better not be drinking halves again!
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Me and the missus. She want's a slot on the sequential record. We'll be there from the 6th (coming from the UK so longer stay). Although I'll be visiting a few other DZs in the area, we'll be based at Z-Hills. You may not care now, but you might after you've met me? :-)
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Shhh, I think it is a secret. They don't want the "lager lout" Brits boogieing over there! As clubs, they require membership fees but I think it is still economical for short-term visitors.
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Do you wear earplugs during the climb?
cpoxon replied to dbattman's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Only in Skyvans (or other equally noisy planes). I don't bother to take them out for the freefall either if I am wearing them. I find it cuts down the "white noise" of the wind and I can hear my audible more clearly, albeit quietly. I find clarity more usefull than volume. Of course, this requires me to be extra vigilant under canopy as it's difficult to take them out without damaging them when wearing a helmet. -
Yves Rossy's rigid-wing which collapses to enable access to smaller planes, and is extended in the air. Also Loïc Jean-Albert flying very close to some ridges with some small, but nice QuickTime movies.
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Hmmm, imagine a whole skyvan full of chicks!
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i finally packed my first pack job
cpoxon replied to Newbie's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Nice one Dave. As I said, as long as the lines are straight, tight, in the center of the pack job, and the deployment is in sequence, it's designed to open. The trick now is to have the confidence to jump your own pack job (hey, you have a reserve!) and to refine your technique. It will get easier! (you'll develop your own methods and the canopy will age) -
This may be out of date now, but it's the most recent info I can find online, but according to Item 9. c)
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A small tracking competition was held at Empuria Brava over the Christmas boogie. They did it by a duel knockout. Two trackers exit at the same time and race each other. They decide who goes furthest. The winner meets the winner from another duel until everyone has been eliminated apart leaving one victor.
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That's Ueli Gegenschatz It's bad form to name objects, even well known legal ones, so I'll leave it to Ueli who identifies it on his website. Also check out the PeteG's pictures from the same object.
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As high as possible! :-) Height isn't the only fatcor, but also height to impact and but also how vertical (or even overhanging), in case your exit and inital flight is less than perfect. I chose a 4000 foot (1200m) legal cliff in Italy for my first one. Impact wise it's no different from the tallest legal wall in the Swiss valley (~1700 ft (~500m)) but psychologically it is a lot better and there's more altitude to make use of if things go well. This has been discussed before on the Wingsuit forum on BLINC but some of the posts seem to have gone missing in the transition Mick? Broadly speaking, there is a consensus that the GTi is the best all round wingsuit considering base/skydiving/wingsuit experience. However, I was comfortable and current on my Skyflyer and chose to do it on that. Plus the leg PC pocket was a big psychological help.
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My first wingsuit jump was my 54th BASE jump. I also had 745 skydives. I'd done 83 wingsuit skydives (1 on a Classic, 55 on a GTi and 27 on a Skyflyer). A friend of mine with more skydives but less wingsuit did his first wingsuit BASE (on a Classic) with 20-odd BASE jumps. I also know a old and bold skydiver who's third BASE jump was a wingsuit jump (but he had a huge amount of wingsuit exits from a balloon). Of course, this is by no mean any recommendation, just some examples.
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It looks like he opens right above the landing area, so give or take, about a mile (for a 4000 foot descent to the ground). Robert was been known to take a curving path and still go beyond the landing area and the road.
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From the man, Robert Fry Pecnik: Bird-man.com videos
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Some real world information, my girlfriend has a Techno 128 in her V0 and I have a Techno 155 in my V3
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And don't look down/at the camera-man!
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i have jumped my skyflyer from 21,000 without a bail out. Dan, what was your delay (and deployment altitude) on that? Did you log any measurements? How did the altitude affect your vertical speed compared with lower down?
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Some years ago, Tony Ross serialised the book on rec.skydiving. Here are the links to the chapters: Chapter 1 - Sky Divers Chapter 2 - Streamer Chapter 3 - Para-Scuba Divers! Chapter 4 - Airborne Chapter 5 - Jumper in Trouble! Chapter 6 - Air Show! Chapter 7 - High Dive [url "http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=78bjrk%247qc%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com"]Chapter 8 - Rescue Mission Chapter 9 - Human Bomb Chapter 10 - Jump Team
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Phil Curtis and Tim Skilton have them. Martin Robiette had his new one with him in Empuria during the boogie.
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Found the clip on Headdown.net Also found a rec.skydiving post regarding it's removal from the server. Not sure how HeadDown can have the rights to this clip?
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Whoops! You, cough, I mean someone beat me to it. Just found it on a CD dated 7th April 1999. Can you remember who asked for it's removal? Would re-titling it ChroniclesX and putting it in the Trailers directory placate them?
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Yes, although not "official" it is actually part of one of the Chronicles tape. The music is "Same in the End" by Sublime. "Daddy was a rolling, rolling stone" to Olav tumbling through the sky. Also has him doing his head-down run across the sky. Was one of my favourite earliest skydiving clips I had on my computer. Can't remember what it was called though :-( I'll keep looking
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:-o Look for: Jade and silver (i.e. green + grey) Voodoo Jade and silver Skyflyer birdman suit Navy blue and royal blue Symbiosis freefly suit Gold vented Original Lizard freefly trousers and assorted long-sleeve tops! Or at the babyfoot table in Surfer's Inn!
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Me too. I'll be there from the 23rd to the 3rd. Say hi. Goes without saying :-P