VectorBoy

I know a guy thats from the midwest but gets down to perris for a week now and then. He probably has the chance to jump all over. He was in Quades Demo class. I doubt he gets to post on DZ.com all day like the more stationarily employed.

Define reason for "fled" please

You are forgetting the waeritzitz effect. It enables a light colored PC, free bag & bridle to remain virtually invisible when placed in the field a mere 5 feet from the searcher.

Thats interesting actually. Back in the eighties the belgian airforce would not let you fly fighters after an ejection for some medical reasons. The U.S. didn't have this issue.

Back in time to when I actually had a savings account.

Yes its the scene were the video is following a canopy all the way down to the grass and all around is green. very nice. I've been to lake smellsamore many times its not really a lake.......... ewwwey! And the DZ is far enough away from it most of the decade.

[Z-1 Con's: Cheap(er) manufacture, neck collar is prone to tearing out, forign company with poor track record in customer service, not avaliable in custom colors. Quote You forgot it has a reputation for falling off peoples head during deployment. Didn't believe it and have now seen it personaly a couple of times. PS: so does my mindwarp if the chin strap is not buckled, and it never happened.

Not that it was Gangsta nation but the 7-cell posse had a run in with the 9-cell posse@ rantoul 03... No T shirt.

Does that mean they get to bust out the Necronomicon? Yup the metal heads will love that too. I think, or I'm not sure what metalheads like anymore.

Nice vid! What DZ is that with the beautiful grass landing zone next to the lake or pond?

(Needless to say, being that close to the ground at those speeds has a whole host of other problems.) Like becoming mogul pie?

Come on guys you know he was just " feeling it" like a real SOUL flyer would, put away yer slide rules.

I hate you. Ah, some day...some day, just not ........ Hey then you will love this. Last summer in the high sierras I had the blessed opportunity to do some emergency field repairs to the steering linkage of an old 70's ford bronco with some other jeepers up till then unused brand new $1100 premier underhood high frequency stick welder half the size of a shoe box. Was one of the best machines I've ever used and I own a square wave tig / big amp stick machine. That pup was very handy indeed, I gotta get. The ford driver loved the work so much he said once he got back to civilization he was going to remove the field repair and have it framed on his living room wall........course you think things like that when you have 16 miles of extreme rock gardens and boulder hopping to do before you reach blacktop.

Co-workers always thought I was just nuts as a skydiver. Then I showed them Loic's slope swoop and pics of my skyflyer and they are completely blown away in a much more positive way. From just plain crazy to extremely cool bird-man. Although we all know once you try it you will really be crazy addicted.

All of those budget machines are pretty much the same Dave. They are a simple transformer with a diode bridge to get the DC. Like someone else said flux core wire welding is junk, you will have to spring for the solinoid, regulator and bottle of Co2-argon. A system that gets you this total pachage cheaper is the way to go. And no matter what anyone says NONE of those machines do aluminum NONE! What kind of welding do you plan to do? Get the machine that suits that type not the budget machine. I do all types so I had to buy all kinds one wont do it all.

I think he means twisting it up so fast that your canopy looks like the blades of a helicopter rotating above you. Yes you can do it on purpose but I doubt it would be much fun unless you're up way high with an intentional cutaway rig on

210. I jumped a bunch just to be ready for Jari and Kim when they came to visit us in 2002. Kim did the ground school for about 20 new birds but we were weathered out. The next week went up with my classic ( which I still have ) and never saw the instructor. Did about 10 solos another 20 flocking and tested an S3 and the rest is history have never had a bad flight yet.

I had about 36 classic jumps before I tested an S3 and that was simply out of curiosity with no intention of buying one... until I tried it that was. My classic flights were full tilt after about 10 getting used to it. I'm talking flips, backflying and extreme turns or spins up high when solo and flying relative when with others. Transition to the S3 was smooth at first as long as I didn't try to MAX it, something I did in small steps. Most people don't see better numbers on the bigger suits for quite a while as it takes sometime to learn. To add to Chucks comments, If you are getting a bigger suit as a first to keep up with the jones and most everyone else you fly with is in other suits and not flying them in their sweet range requiring you to fly dirty all of the time you wont have fun. You wont be relative, not easily. The suits have their sweet range of flight, this range has a great deal of overlap. But if you find yourself always at the extreme bottom of the envelope the suit will be just as twitchy as you would be trying to max it out. Twitchy, wobblely and dirty at the bottom of the envelope of an S3 is not what you want to be doing while everybody else is just cruizing along in a a nice smooth formation taking wing docks. At least not until you learn to safely and smoothly explore the bottom end of the envelope as you will explore the top end of the envelope. All of this takes time and jumps, experience and exposure. This may in the end require you to stick to doing two ways with like equipt friends ( if you are lucky and have this as an option ) to just be plain left out of the bigger flocks. At least not "in it" doing transitions and wingdocks like you really want to be. You may go as far as to get another slower suit to play with everyone else. This is one reason most everyone who had a classic or GTI at first tends to keep it instead of going for a sale. Classics flown in their sweet range can keep up with any flock myself and buddies find ourselves on while the top end of the S3 envelope is really only touched during two ways or solo. Something to think about.

Thats fantastic, I thought it wudda taken forever to arrive on the west coast south. Who is going?

Nice but you must not have seen John and Janine's RV converted albatross yet!

You mean the rumors are true ...he really is a stunt double for kurt Russell?

Flight plans are good. Like say you land out ....say Cuba for example. Did he cover navigation? Teasing over, glad you had fun. PS: Butt landings are very hard on almost new white GTI's. Again glad its gettin better.

toggles will be more forgiving than rear risers. On rears you can induce a stall much easier . Unsymetrical rear riser inputs close to the stall point are a neat way to helicopter a relativly rectangular canopy and the quickest way to collapse anything tapered or elliptical.

In a Bird Man suit, at least mine, the key word is symmetry, especially when pulling. The difference between left and right arms, while pulling, was most likely not more than an inch. That less than an inch difference was enough to roll me onto my back, and the fact that I didn't fly out of that position immediatly combined for an extremely fast spike on the Neptune. 156 mph (if I remember right, it's in the car), and that was also my max freefall speed, at 3000 feet. That altitude would be the "bad" part of my second attempt. Practice your EPs people, please. Very smart Jim, the difference between twisting around searching for PUD/ hackey or bridle in freefall and doing the same while already commited to and in the middle of a deployment, partial or otherwise, while flying a wingsuit can be the difference between an ugly deployment in freefall and in a wingsuit an unsurviveable nasty spinning inescapable wrap were the cypres and reserve will not save. All of this even worse if you are on a skyflyer with its bigger wing surface area and its lesser tolerance of unsymetrical deployments. I myself did the exact same thing a month ago. I never wear gloves. I only gave it the second chance and realized I was partially deployed with my upper torso twisted enough so that I could see back down the side of my container and examine the bridle that I was pulling on. WRONG! Although I was still relatively flying straight ahead and stable this could have all radically changed as my bag deployed and wrapped me up for an inncedent post. Instead I chose silver or in my case purple. In the saddle at 2700. Once the reserve left of course it relieved the pressure on the main so I was greeted with two out. No issues they flew great but I cut the main which was in trail. After monday morning quarterbacking this to death I still did the correct thing in the end. Another option ( based solely on the available altitude I had to work with) would have been to ball up and present a slightly head high attitude to get the PC into better airflow and as I was using the Base PC pouch and shrivel flap. Then again this is better attempted after practicing it while wearing a wingsuit and up high at altitude. But unless you spend entire skydives or wingjumps on procedures how can you be good at them.

Man that guy has a bunch of leave saved up! Or is he going AWOL?