VectorBoy

That was 10 years ago. Now you can find me in the booze section. Just remember drinking leads to having kids which leads to more drinking, which leads to...... never mind.

Seriously, I think the produce section is the way to go. Works for me, years ago I was in the produce section with a know-it-all co-worker. I was questioning mister smarty pants on various produce choices and their ripeness. Then a young hotty turns around and interjects her opinion, rather suggestfully, flirty and just short of sensually. Smarty pan'ts jaw litteraly dropped ( I was confused as hell but tried not to show it ) Then after some long minutes she explained. We had met before, she is the girlfriend of a friend. But until then my co-worker, smarty-pain-in the pants tag along was sure I was some kind of babe magnet machine.

We love that place!

To some people it is just that a sport. They can't stay and smoosh and play after hours. A quick beer and off they go. Some people have to balance a personal life and finances Vs skydiving. Every day on the dropzone is a treat. To others its a way of life. They are on the DZ everyday or every weekend, their life is consumed. The social life is good but it can be limiting. Its a tight knit group that cares for one another on and off the DZ. The shameful part is when this group looks down on the first group that is striving for " balance" in their lives and regards them as an outsider. I heard a comment once on these forums about sticking around after the beer light comes on will increase your skydiving knowledge. If this individual thinks sticking around is the only way to get "air educated " it is kind of sad.

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Yes, being stuck in the cabin is bad. Its how good people turn to flesh eating. I don't care if its ice fishing or psychodelicious mushroom eating. Just get out more!

We found that to get into the sweet spot on the Matter2 it helped to get your backside out a little. Young ladies had almost instant improvement. For some of the men they joked it was just unmanly and good results were not so quick.

My cables came out ( back side only ) about half way, a few months ago. I didn't know it until already in the doorway when the guy that took the picture in my avitar told me. I decided to jump anyway. It flew fine. Its hard to see it in the avitar pic but you can see in the original a white line or upper wing separation. But no problems. The only reason I wouldn't leave cables exposed is for fear of snagging them on something in a tight aircraft. As far as tugging them goes you can always pull some slack on the ones in the front to verify full seating. Someone else will have to do the ones in the back.

Got a friend down in perris who gets "long time". We accuse him of having hollow bones. He is 6 foot 140 pounds. Jari is at least 6 foot but I don't think he weighs more than 160. In fact I own one of his old suits and it is tight on me ( I'm 170 ) in girth. Ironically young ladies who have a little junk in the trunk and after a few flights, with coaching, learn where to place the ghetto bootie to do fantastic things in terms of flight. I've got some night and day videos from first flight to good results but I'm not sharing. Its just personal. Some times its just un-manly for a guy to make the same posture.

Whats a 16 flight?

Otay is a fantastic facility, a very good bunch of customers and a wonderful staff. I cannot recommend this facility enough! Their landing area is plenty big even for those of us that have to sometimes sqeak it in from the west.

Thats for him. With that being said I would also say one that opens predictable for you. One that you feel comfortable landing when not all things are stacked in your favor and obviously in low light conditions. And the one that is easy to find after you cut it away in the dark when most of your lost canopy finding assist foundation is a six pack or two behind the powercurve.

I bed to differ, that's what it's ALL about for me..... Edit to add: I will and do jump any of the canopies I own in day or night conditions. I've seen it! I've got the video too.

If you may be in danger of hypoxia prolonged spirals may not be the mauever of choice as it may help starve your brain of O2. But like Billvon said, hook knife in hand, wouldn't it be cool to be able to tell the story about the time you cut your reserve away? As a syptom you could always wait until your nails look blue before you do but I always heard your color vision is the first to go.

The S-fly is basically a design that has been around since 1999. The only changes have been origins of manufacture and improvements in quality. I can't speak for the principle but If I had to guess I would say that Loic has in mind an inexpensive suit that is both easy to learn on and fly with good results. Its the suit you see the soul flyers doing all of their cool stuff in on their self titled DVD. It probably compares to the Classic series from bird-man in price and ease of use. Although now BM has wingsuits offering more wing area for the more experience pilots. These suits may be more demanding to fly for some and are more costly to purchase. There is a Matter wingsuit no longer in production that is very similar to the S-fly but all of their newer offerings ( matter 2 and M2 versions 2005 )are based on a design with more wing area. These offerings are also easy to fly but are not in the same entry level price range. Then you have the new kid on the block. So new only a few test pilots have had a small taste. The Vampire -1. It is not described as entry level material in performance or price but you can bet it is a contributing factor in a lot of primary suits being placed on the market for resale by experienced pilots with multiple suits who need funds to experience the new. keep in mind, just like what you hear on the canopy forum, it is also pilot skill that determines performance not just the wing suit design.

This is a good example of what can happen on the LQRS cut away cable end that somehow gets abraided enough to have metal sticking up through the teflon coating. It can cut the material or at the very least be very hard to wind through the tabs because the end is snagging on the material. When walking about keep the cable ends protected so as not to abraid. As far as the wing cables go every body I know sucsessfully keeps them within the keepers and don't personal know of a suit made with the cables too long. I'm not saying it doesn't exist but for the most part you just push the other end farther down into the handle. You get "bunching" when seated in the aircraft as you are bent over but not when standing or in flight. Just my experience.

Whatever you guys cook up let the rest of the WS world in on it.... I'm talking pics and video. Po Phree isn't the only one who has a stupid life keeping them from there. No vid and you know the rest... din't happen. Don't tell me EPIC, show me EPIC. Phree I sorry it was bust for you man. I know you wanted to go bad!

IMO, there are plenty of other canopies on the market to buy for those that dont believe the winglets work. Ed You are right Ed, I've never met a modern canopy I didn't like. I think each and every one of them delivers.... and there is a model for everyones needs, whatever those needs may be there happens to be a canopy out there ( or several ) for your needs. But I am not above modding MY personal gear. Last year I took a canopy that I loved and that did everything I wanted it to do and had a mod performed on it that made it better at just a few things and making it not the best choice for what I do mostly. Its now not my first choice for wingsuit deployments but no loss as I have another for that. And in the case of those winglets, in my heart and what I've come to know about some things related to flight I would have no compulsion about deleting them from that design if I owned a copy of that design and otherwise loved it. I may start with just taping them down. Then patching them over. Then getting rid of them completely. But I wouldn't let them keep me from loving the Nitro or the Blade.

More importantly Kris, do you think your V-1 will fit me? I gotta try one before I buy one. Or at least fly with a known ( to me) constant to get true comparison and a valued post flight opinion compared to the S-3. Picking up 3 new wingsuits inside of 12 months is hard to sell to my book keeper.

Hell, I already like Perry and I've never even met him!

And in that department, Nitro(n)s are pretty good, IMO. Yes the word out that it and the blade are pretty good canopys..... Nothing to say that the owner couldn't have a rigger sew them down with a patch and call it the wart mod or version 2.0.

Dick though, not Burt. Not sure what his aerodynamic expertise is. Burt on the other hand seems to be able to visualize aerodynamics in a superhuman way.

Someone could always just duct tape the nipple on one side down and see if there is a magnanamous flight & flare difference. Difference enough to spend the time and money to maim a canopy cell like that during manufacturing. Hi-per doesn't claim this design flies bigger as a result of the warts does it? Just checking.

It would be really cool if those people could be hot stripper chicks. This would prove they don't understand the topic, we would need much more liquor and a video camera, air matresses and a bunch of babay oil.

So being that you're so knowlageable in things aerodynamic, how much effect you you think those "Front Deflectors" on your S3 have? You mean the ones that are not on the Pheonix V-1. I wouldn't think, I would demonstrate in a wind tunnel. Or due to the expense of a wind tunnel I would let you strap me in my S3 to the roof of your car as you go speeding down the highway while Rob smokes the wing hanging out from one rear passenger window while Larry videos these tests hanging out the opposite passenger window. About six hours of testing ( without drinking )on video should do it. Or, as an option in flight "tuff" testing with again Larry videoing the tests. Less than six hours of tests required here. Drinking later. Or I could just rip one side off leave the other on jump and see. BTW are you confused between the differences of Bird-man front deflectors AKA vortex generators which create little vorteses on purpose and wingtip winglets designed to retard the propagation of the big vortex comming around the wing until that wing is long gone forward? Me thinks so! There are a lot of devices that trip air or energize air flow or create vortexes. Speed strips, vortilons, vortex generators. They work on a myriad of designs in as many capacities. Whether it is to reduce the stall speed and create more lift on a STOL mod. Or reduce drag on a speed mod or to create a controlled stall earlier on one part of a wing with no wash-out. Sometimes they just keep airflowing the correct way through an oil cooler inlet duct. None of them - none of them have anything to do with winglets. Which does that one thing. Oh and they look cool on Lears. Or in this case just create drag and hold the line over till you are good and pissed.