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Here's a clip of John's perspective from the Herc Boogie video and you can see he DFEINITELY gets above it! JohnLoken2-256.WMV

Swoop, upload it to ftp.skydivingmovies.com or email to me at craig@poxon.org and I'll do it for you

The record (although I'm not sure where the value came from) is the average over a kilometer, whereas the peak is not. Also "record" is a bit of a grey area. The devices are too susceptible to pressure changes to be definitive enough. Also, the competitions are relative, a result from one meet bears no relation to a result from another meet, they are only relative to results in the same competition, hence the points awarded for your position in the ranking, and the units run in TAS (therefore very with met conditions and AGL)

Ta! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

What CODEC is that? Media Player 9 is saying the &€mà Codec is required. Never heard of that one. Think it's a Beta problem... p.s. It's big, but have you checked out The Skydiver's yet?

I find the wording a little ambiguous. It discusses the conflicting evidence on the date of the reserve repack, but an examination suggested the parachute was airworthy and the date on which the reserve was last packed was not an issue. By parachute, do they literally mean the reserve or the whole system? I'd be interested in the state of the closing loop, of which no mention is made. Undoubtably, the head-jam put a lot of force on the reserve but I do wonder about the loop condition. BSBD

Wow. Includes pictures from the camera-man of the reserve popping. Eerie.

As in a water landing, or actually using BR's round canopy? Now there's an idea, jumping a wingsuit with a round. How do those things deploy in a track?

Moderator, moderate thyself! Hey, rules are rules! :-)

Mac, At my home DZ, if you catch the DZO and CCI at the right time and can display you have a full understanding of what you are undertaking, along with the right attitude, there is a possibility that he may allow you to do a wingsuit jump with less than 500 jumps. However, if he doesn't know you and therefore have a practical grasp of your attitude, you'll have your work cut out. Turning up unknown saying, "I hear I can make a wingsuit jump here" would not be appreciated. That means you'd need to hang around and jump so that your attitude is demonstrated. I think you're unlikely to get a jump at Sibson. From what I understand, wingsuit flying has only started there recently now that the staff have some suits and they'll be winding down soon when the Let goes too. Also Andy at Weston is very strict on the 500 jump limit. Do you have a suit or access to one?

Saw one of these hung up the other day. Canopies look weird with no D lines!

Hate to disagree with you Dan but I'm not so sure. Anyone considering taking a wingsuit off a big wall ought to have the experience that back-sliding won't be an issue, especially with not being able to get hands forward, and not to mention a large wing between your leg, which when even being slightly utilised, should prevent any backslide. Most big walls that are popular with wingsuit jumps have very large vertical drops big enough that, should you go head low, allow you to pick up speed and fly out of it. My biggest worry was I'd be so unstable that I'd be facing the wall by the time I recovered! In contrast, one of the biggest issues with wingsuit jumping is deployment, especially with a larger wing such as the GTi or Skyflyer, deploying from BOC. I wouldn't want to be rushing a wingsuit deployment of a low(-er) bridge (remember your first stowed jump?) even at low airspeeds. Again, if you are considering wingsuit BASE you should have the experience so that wingsuit deployment isn't a concern, but combining risk factors such a BASE with wingsuit certainly can play one's mind! Guess what I'm saying is I believe the low altitude is a bigger risk to wingsuit BASE (due to deployment issues) than big solid walls. The benefit of the wingsuit is the distance that can be gained and should be achieved from the start! But I guess big wall access is more difficult for some so prep on what you can get is good.

I'll post it as soon as I receive it.

Oops, sorry, missed this one. It may be the lowest pressure area, but more importantly, I reckon it may be the most static place, giving more consistent readings.

Nothing to add except (and this is off-topic) but your DZ (Pepperell?) has Boneheads for the students?! Cool. Could be a shrewd move by Jeanie. Can't beat a ProTec for shock absorbancy and protective padding though. And they put the old helemts in the "never-used" bin?!?!

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Do you have a warning label with a pocket on the bottom of the back-pad of the container? I do on my Voodoo. It's a little uncomfortable but I've been experimenting with it although I don't have any comparitive data yet.

The last time I saw the Skyray (Vichy 2 years ago), deployment was initiated using a sprung-loaded pilot-chute because of the inability to reach the BOC!

From what I've seen, BR and CR use flaps to close the vents but Atair use a tube of material extending from the valve to close it. The idea being that is seals from different 'angles of air'?

Pictures of the birds resting at the top

Didn't BirdMan try that a year or two ago. In fact, I think they called them Track Pants also. I remember Colon had some at Z-Hills? Don't think they were very popular.

Just got back from there myself. Leo Dickinson and friends are playing with some Peregrine Falcons. Is this the same group? I missed Stane. Got back late last night. Will post pictures and info about my pre-second BirdMan BASE jump when I get some time!

It's only 4 seconds long. Encoded for Media Player 7 and above. You trying this on a non-MS OS Erno?

Just going throuhg some vid and came across this shot from the ramp of John Loken expertly riding the slipstream of the C-130 Hercules in his wingsuit. Not sure if he gets above it; wouldn't he be obscured? Then again, the point of view is lower than the tail. He certainly looks like he's above it from his angle, but I don't have a copy of that unfortunately. JohnLoken.WMV

Cool. Thanks Ron. If you can, send me the data from the two ProTracks. I'll merge them and put it up on jumptrack.com.