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My guess is they got weathered again, stole yuri's bag of shrooms, towed the lander behind chuck's street glide in a wingsuit while wearing roller skates.......we are just waiting for the video.
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My dropzone is going to close, Cal-City
VectorBoy replied to rapter's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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Are you going for that Steven Segal look Douglas?
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Exit was performed at what altitude? landing was into/onto what type of surface? Was wingsuit terminal ever achieved? Were any chickens harmed during the event?
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200mg total of codeine and the pain was still killing me. This is the most pain i have ever felt in my life. so bad! There is a nerve that runs down your jaw, its a biggie and its very close to effected area. I've had much more brutal injuries farther from nerves that didn't hurt as much as the wisdom pain. Narcotics were my friends but they didn't all work as well, so I had to experiment to find the right one. I feel for you.
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A phone call as usual.
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of the most active instructors (Jeff, Chuck, Justin, Nick and a hand full of others) When you write stuff like that it may tend to get some of the very skilled and active european instructors bowed up and get the domestic types that bad arrogant rap. Or is it an aerogant rap?
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Do you think the shrooms had anything to do with the muffs and pink panties??
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I Love how it flies and it has a super powerful flare, but gotta figure out how to get it to open softer. Not trying to get to far off track, but having my line stows a little tighter seemed to help. Rolling/ tucking the nose did not seem to help and when I rolled the tail very tightly, it open into several linetwists! I've gotta get around to that smaller PC and see how that works. If anyone else has any good info on how to pack this canopy for softer openings, I would love to hear it. If you need one of those to open softer you made need the h-mod, roq- mod. Both are basically sewing little triangle shaped material into the nose closing up the opening a little. Its a rigger deed, Howard Adams did it in the past then I believe Joe Bennet was doing it taking over for Howard. Roq does it in Europe. The comp cobalt is based on it. Changing the pc size only effects the initial snatch pull force other things effect the total opening briskness.
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I believe the frogs were more creative with them than anybody lately.
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I'm surprized its gone on this long. Gary Peek's post about solutions and training methods to problems that don't exist pretty much sums it up. For example learning a proper straight down the tube Free fly head down is much harder to learn than anything in wingsuits. Coaching is available but not mandatory. The proper sequence to deal with a CReW wrap or entanglement is much more demanding than anything you have to deal with in wingsuits. No instructors required or available, just mentors. In the case of new CReW, FF or wingsuit students you are still talking about skydivers with some experience who can judge their exposure better than someone fresh off the street to take an AFF course or a tandem jump.
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Shut off their electrical breaker on friday night.
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Clamshell side hard case out of larger planes but I can only vote once.
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Is the line set different than the same one for a cobalt 170 Mel?
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What does a WS instructor rating cost now days? I remember when it was 300 bucks and a three day comprehensive program for some and a gimme for others depending on the situation. Although if you are giving it away that is what its worth, a gimme.
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So that doesn't happen anymore? Am I a year too late? Having a rating tossed at you isn't a crime, not then nor now BTW. The crime was when some of these same clowns turned around and bad mouthed the unrated as unsafe and ignorant and how they were so much more equipped to do the instruction because ..........WTF?!? Very few of them did anything to promote wingsuits or build a local scene anyway. Which leads us to today and what the USPA thinks of the WS instructor.............. probably something along the lines of WTF?!?
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Hefforino, Jason is actually a Paid AFF instructor. But back a few years ago he and others took a lot of heat for trying to establish a ,local to them, wingsuit scene so as to have some more people to fly with. Most with out WS ratings. For some it was hard to travel to the few Chief instructors for others they didn't believe in the validity of the WS instructor. Now there is easy access to proper instruction it wasn't always so. Yes there are instructors who spend a lot of effort with candidates and give a very valuable instruction. This wasn't always so. There use to be a lot of rip offs and frauds! Its fair to say that if you are in an out of the way area yes you have to give away some of your time to get people to join you. Is it worth it? Sometimes yes, sometimes no!
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I'm bald, I wish for grey.
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You found a bag of shrooms didn't you?!?
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I like wingmonauti but I'm lousy at math. As far as inviting he who's name should not be spoken thats between you and this forums mod. BTW if you say the name 3 times in sequence an excell spreadsheet with jiberish gets posted in about half a dozen top threads for a few days so you may want to rethink that. Oh and don't forget you are all "wingsuit infidels".
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Carbon fiber as used in skydiving products are a cloth or a weave. The resin that combines with the cloth to give it the finished product properties are typically an epoxy mix. You can get both from aircraft spruce and specialty but its expensive to play around with if you don't know what you want/need exactly. They even have some prepreg sheets which are sheets already impregnated carbon/epoxy that all you need to do is heat up a few hundred degrees to activate and cure.
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What is the number of current skydivers that have flown a wingsuit? What is the number of current skydivers that own a wingsuit? What is the number of current skydivers that put more than 10 flights on their wingsuit in a year? What is the number of current skydivers that 51% or more of their skydives are wingsuit jumps? What is the number of current skydivers that have made wingsuit flight their primary discipline (e.g. 90% + of all their jumps)? The answers to your questions would be nearly impossible to get. You could insert the words Hybrid, CReW, Atmonauti , pylon races or jumped with FF tubes in place of wingsuits in your sentence and it would still be damn near impossible to gather. Some schools could possibly give you exact number of tandems or specific numbers to complete AFF everything else is just a paid fun jump. A dropzone could give you number of loads but I doubt few could give you exact number of jumps.
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Basically it's like 20 aircraft all in the pattern for the same airport. Getting on a different load would be the wise choice. Having more then 3 groups exiting with separate patterns, on a single a aircraft is absolutely stupid...... I would get on that load with one of those humongus belly mounted IMAX cameras and I would open about 6 k under a very bright parachute, letting everybody on the load know what I was doing. If I live through it will be great video. In reality I probably wouldn't be touched but I doubt that the flockers would be so lucky fixating on me and not watching out for the "other" converging traffic.
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Do lots of Atmonauti, it should almost be a prerequisite and its a whole lot of fun.
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That makes wingsuit pilots 1 in a Million. Yes, I believe thats about right unless you are surfing youtube then you couldn't throw a stick without hitting one of us in the legwing.