VectorBoy

So I guess letting the bridle float free inside the shrivel flap unstitched is a bad Idea?

Well phree don't be suprised if this one becomes the WFFC one, since it will be owned by a dropzone. I doubt it will run on any given tuesday but I can see it making most of the big summer boogies. Don't worry about the runway, Perris also owns a whole bunch of earth moving equiptment. You should know this if you were surveying where not to land while under canopy back in may.

Not as exciting as yours but once I forgot to put gas in the airplane oops.

Was it Felix?

Count me in!! I wanna ride wingnut. Why does this sound........Nasty?

Welcome back Eric!

The other one would be hard to cost since it was assembled with a combination of used parts, new parts, Quote You shot down and dissasembled one of the helios solar aircraft didn't you! Admit it!

I was only speaking in terms of this flap being used to change the wing enough for landing a wingsuit, like flaps on an aircraft, to create greater lift and tons of drag to slow down a man landed suit.

As the canopy accelerates, the drag on the steering lines will increase and pull against the toggle and the tail of the canopy. This drag is transmitted to the toggles, and the tail. The jumper feels this force as an increase in front riser pressure, even though the pressure on the front risers has not increased. Since the jumper is holding the toggle, the tail will be pulled down a little and the perceived front riser pressure will be higher. Quote So are you saying that in a front riser ( or any banked manuever ) dive the that the front riser pressure does not increase? Or just that in the case of short brake line / bucking canopy the increase is abnormaly high?

I'm still waiting to hear from that 50 jump wonder on a x-brace loaded above 1-8 that everyone was so worried about several months ago. Come out, come out where ever you are.

Very nice! Your cuttaway handles look unique. Are they the standard cordura soft loop or something else?

Jari and Robi I can't speak for but the Skyflyer three has a little wing tip gripper/stiffener that some folks on occasion use differentialy like ailerons but mostly to maintain tension on the bigger area of S3 wing to fly more efficiently. Minor deflections are all it takes. Now in regards to landing a wingsuit if your plan is to use some kind of long travel device that changes the wings area creating lift and drag radically like flaps on aircraft, they will have to placed inboard and will be harder to reach and activate with your hands. Keep in mind that the physical area skyflyer3s wings are just about a max that most flyers can hold for any given length of time. Out board they will put too much leverage on your hands and any unsymetrical application will cause instability of biblical proportions. Besides we already have a HI-lift device.... its called a parachute.

Well if you decide to do it have a custom leather wingsuit made with carefully placed titanium studs installed and land it at night so we can watch the sparks fly.

It depends also on the fit of the suit to the individual. In a match fit world 5 minutes. From helping dozens of first timers at rantoul with odd sized demo suits we found it could take more time if the latterals or main harness didn't fit around the standard third tab installation procedure. But a 5 minute average is about right.

Hi there Kim, I also don't have the elsinore BMIs contact info only their first name. Diablo pilot is a BMI based at Perris and can be reached on this forum but Cato the bigger problem is getting a spare classic or GTI wing suit in your size available to borrow when you are here. Several people at Perris have extra suits or will loan their personal suits. These dropzones definitely need a standing wingsuit demo program coupled with instruction. I get questions all the time about it.

Nope, just Lightnings, with the nose rolled. ouch!

Alti master has a couple that they take to boogies to test and tune customers altis. Take a look at their unit its fast acting and simple.

The reason I ask is because its recommended to use the wristmount in the manual. A few weeks ago I was filming a flock using somebody elses helmet with no audible flying on my back. I was holding a hard arch and to peek at my wrist mount I would have dropped out on them, but it was getting late in the dive and I had to rely on the flockers for altitude "Q"s. I'm really thinking about a mud flap set up, maybe even a neptune. I also really like the wedge idea.

That wasn't always the case. They used to have a line of automobiles, made in the UK. Again, I am not arguing your points. But your points are not relevant to what is causing this strike. The cause of this stike comes down to dollars and cents. Nothing more. Quote Dollars and cents can be misconstrued as greed and lazyness, both of which has been brought up in this tread be posters. Letting the accountants run the policy of corporations without a smart business sense as a buffer is a recipe for disaster that has been a historical fact that is my argument. What is causing this strike is a failure to reach an agreement to would be an equitable compromise to both parties. In this case it is a loose-loose. So-cal is not the strong union belt of the nation people will cross the line. Competion is fierce here there will be major dollar losses.

The GM model has affected Saab, Vauxhaul, nearly destroyed Lotus. You know there are a lot of people in various business positions that are making triple that and really offering much in less terms of productivity for their respective corporation. Most often they are a liability in the business place and counterproductive to the process. American middle management is full of this human equation. But I understand that the apron is easier to spot and pick on. And I'm sure if we had that useless overpaid manager bag or stock shelves he would fail miserably at it.

You like nice Cars, like your car. What if the numbers proved best that the people that make and service your car should scrape the bottom of the gene pool for personel to see to your cars needs from the factory to the aftermarket? After all it doesn't take much to scan a bar scan on the side of a carton. I don't fully understand your example here. Quote The slogan can go like this: shitty cars, apethetic employees but great car prices. Yes thats kind of K-mart, wal-mart. and later when its time to repair your lemon do you want the low wage zombie or the knowledgeable mechanic? I like nothing better than getting parts from the auto aftermarket and finding that more and more of it is being manned up with people that have some training beyond whats needed to just scan and bag parts over a counter in the not too distant past this was the case because thats all that was required of a "parts clerk". Aggravating. The business numbers have already removed the human equation from the major assembly components of cars in the first place.Quote I think it had more to do with the very sophisticated capabilties of automation, also in terms of duty cycle and quality control. Business numbers didn't make that happen any more than a car is designed by a machine. Business numbers again hey you are not an MBA are you?

Why is the use of a chest strap or mudflap mounted altimeter discouraged for use in wingsuits? What are the possible downsides?

How do you arrive at 22' from pin to top of shrivel flap? I don't base so I'm unfamiliar with base gear but why does the shrivel have to be sewn on the bridel? What kind of mall can this cause? A loose shrivel flap sliding up a bridle to constrict the PC causing a slow or never kind of main deployment malfunction?

nope but it will keep that parking lot well swept. Just don't expose teeth when you smile in the tunnel.

I think he's talking about stuffing the nose into the pack job, not stuffing the pack job into the nose. Make sense? - Jim Yes this makes sence. I don't stuff, rolled or otherwise, anything into any cell opening on any canopy. But I have done a courtesy tuck from time to time.