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What is prefered for rodeos is big wing suit pilot and small piggy back person. You typically end up with a svelt ladie on your back to keep a modicom of glide ratio, Just based on body sizes. Some men have rodeod other male bird-men with great results. Friends of mine have surfed on the backs of bird-man with great double video. We are talking stand up and thrash the wingsuit across the sky. But.... Tall guy your are numero uno gunna be THE choice platform for BIG aggressive style rodeo. Stand -up, handstand, 1-G barrel roll with the rider in a full on stand position, Bad ass manuevers! So get use to HARD core maxed out aerobatic antics and being the MOTHER ship for some fun two ways. I have officially warned you. You must now become a very proficient S3 pilot.
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I think back flying has more to do with having a nice solid and stable arch than vents on both sides of the wing. And the stamina to hold your body that way where it is not accustomed to normally. It is tiring just to hold the arms maxed out for regular flying for long periods and many flights unless you build up those muscles and keep them maintained. Back flying that I have done on my classic 2 and I have seen others do on GTIs tends to make the suit pitch up and down. The skyflyer 3 seems to be easier to fly inverted ,at least for me, as a more stable if not efficient platform. And it is hard physically in a skyflyer because of the wing surface area. Unless you get your arms out and behind you with your elbows rolled and over extended you wont present the same leading edge and wing shape that you can easily right side up. Its the same as flying in a normal belly to earth position and not holding the wings out. You spill air and the wings don't inflate to their max. Great force is required to hold your feet down to keep from relaxing and spilling air all around you. Guys that are better at max flat back tracking will excel at back flying their suits once they build up their arms and legs. Think bird-man specific exercises: reverse flys upside down pushups or maybe something in the pool to work on those muscle groups. Then again you can just do a whole bunch of jumps on your back. As far as the suit goes its the only skyflyer experience I have. Jari explained that it was one of many prototype suits before the 3 was finalized. They tried the vents and weren't happy with all of the extra assembly work in return for its performance when inverted. He said its a good suit and put many jumps on it as can be seen when examined, but the production 3s are a better product. I see back flying and rolling in and out positions on a 4-way formation in a precision fashion as part of the many future possibilities of wing suit flight. Smooth barrel rolling and back flying will be a big part of this.
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Skydive Arizona Dropzone.com 2nd Annual Holiday Boogie
VectorBoy replied to sangiro's topic in The Bonfire
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So this system is as "tight" as the BOC spandex? I have it on my S3 and would like to try it. It sounds like that it is a smoother, easier initial PC deployment.
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Very nice Phree. I like the rib idea and I hope it gives you that desired visual effect. Now, you are comming to Eloy yes? You know its going to go off for wing suits!
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Deploying knees bent forward is the prefered method on the suits that have more forward speed and bigger burbles. It provides a little bit of air brake to kill your forward drive and increased descent rate to keep your deploying PC and bag farther off your back. Do not bend your knees with your legs up above you like an RW position! This will put your feet exactly where your PC and bag will be. Horseshoe + winguit is something I don't want to ever deal with, at the worst and anything touching your deploying main has a tremendous chance of spinning up your main at the very least. Keep your feet on level with your butt, like you are doing squats.
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My only concern would be in a high density flock, having someone else contact this exposed bridle and give me a deployment when I'm not ready for it and during a flight in the center of a flock. Although I've been lucky enough not to have experienced anything but very nice controlled wing grips. We have seen videos of the hairy near miss and I do personaly know people who have been bird pummeled. Its not that hard with our bigger burbles.
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Getting time in that tunnel can be pretty hard sometimes depending how busy the town is. You may want to call ahead and make a reservation.
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Do you guys that fly head down tubes prefere a single leg attachment with swivle or the two leg attachment system on your tubes?
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Kevin or steve I would like to see a pic of the bridle and PC and how they both install in this system if you could. And you would use this system ONLY for base jumps right? Or would this be some kind of option for grey area jumps say like going lower than normal on a standard jump?
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Yeah now, blow off work and jump it. This will not be your first S3 flight will it Phree? What colors did you get? Hell while you are at it post a pick or two.
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Nobody has just a jeep.... not even jeep freaks. Hey freaky, need more info what kind of jeep: year, mode , current engine?l
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Understanding the BirdMan Skydiver and Flight Plan
VectorBoy replied to ManBird's topic in Wing Suit Flying
WFFC was actually a very special event in that typically you don't have this many jumpers and different aircraft groups from different organizations ( with their own staff, procedures and individual manifesting) working together on one big temorary DZ. On the first day of the event I asked Brian Burke if they had any special procedures for wing suits , and there weren't any. So I just told the arizona otter pilot that I was going to fly opposite his descending pattern. We both liked that. Brian came by the birdman inc booth later and asked that their instructors come up with a uniform procedure for wingsuit flights and a briefing for same. With three or more parallel jump runs ( and the pilots didn't know which until after their turn to final ) and tight aircraft spacing and shifting winds Our worst nightmare was an exit from one aircraft to have an intercept with another aircraft 1000' below and a quarter mile behind on an adjacent run. This exact thing happened on a 6 way. Skymonkey1 spotted it while the door was being opened and yelled out the warning. The base didn't get it and proceeded to fly that way until the rest of us could get up there and fly them the other way. Thank god we 1 Saw it first 2 Weren't preoccupied first time jumpers. 3 A skyvan just approaching the start of its jump run with its door open and an aft CG didn't have to peel off a jump run. It was a very crowded place. You absolutely could not open above 3000' and you didn't want to track too much or you may be joining the trackers in the other RW formations coming the other way. This was the reason that the BMIs increased the minimum jump numbers for first timers. If you were turned away sorry but there was a good reason. Your first wingsuit deployment is so much smoother if you are not "threading the needle" through formations. Wingsuits really had it made at WFFC. In that we could fly away from and deploy away from the fracus, if you were a heads up navigator and knew where you had to be at all times to be safe. By the end of the event and more people were use to seeing wingsuits it was much smoother. Pilots were asking which jump run we preferred and briefed us on trailing and adjacent aircraft. We need to strive for this kind of coordination. -
Yes, thanks to Kevin from performance designs, Sara and JC from team extreme for organizing an amazing 14 way all wingsuit sunset load out of the van. Participants included some of the guys from team extreme, and the PD pilots that were done competing in the proswoop for the day, some guests and some lucky locals. It was incredible being in the air with so many accomplished wingsuit pilots.
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Pantera, they own their own strip joint.
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its typically a good show anyway. But I will watch tonight for sure.
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Mobile Signals Can Cause Nausea, HeadacheQuote And my finger to flip up (sorry horn is broke) everytime some boob is driving and not paying as much attention to the road as their phone call.
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Excellent, enjoy and don't let other people see you with "dirty kid choco face syndrome".
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Just use your nifty purple wing suit.
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And just think of all that time above 119 seconds that your protrack truncated and is just left on the table.
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Ah yes but her smile was priceless. If we had funneled her to get her attention there would not have been any shareing of the jello shots... you know with her delicate back and all.
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I've had several first timers nail navigation on the first flight. Our very own wingnut ,or wingi as he likes to be called, did a fantastic job of it at Rantoul and that place was tuff enough for even the veteran WS jumpers to navigate. Of coarse some DZs are better than other for this and it also depends on time of day. For example at San Diego you just follow the lake back. Maybe we should take a cue from those that jumpmaster night jumps and ask the first time bird man to "spot " the DZ before exit and remind them we need to fly back there. Even though by the time someone is able to fly wingsuits they have several hundred if not thousands of jumps and have been spotting for themselves at least a portion of those jumps. Experience in tracking and navigation are valuable skills not just for wingsuit jumps but just in case you experience an in flight situation and have to egress and you are not directly above the DZ.
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Thats funny Kimme also forgot the second 90 degree turn even though I motioned for her to follow me back upwind to the DZ. 5k pull on spectre 170, she makes it back with no problems and a great big smile . First flights pull high. Some people focus too much on "how" they are and how much fun they are having and forget "where" they are on those first few flights.
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And the DZ managers..... at more than one DZ
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Must be something in the air... Yeah.... Their legs