VectorBoy

I have cut mine away ( let it go) and it falls just like a cuttaway main. Of course mains dont fall the same and how long and how wide your tube design is would have an effect equal to or greater than the weight. Schedule 40 is pretty thick ( on the inside ).

Its hard not too, Mike has calculated the precise interval between shutter openings in milliseconds and knows where and when to be, he loves it, its what he lives for. So basically if you have a lens on your head you are his enabler.

Again I started this thread based on posts made in another thread, the text you quoted wasn't mine. Personally down in Elsinore (I havent jumped in Perris for ages) I land out by the pond, less traffic to negotiate with, and everyone lands in the same direction pretty much.. Yeah I just caught that you had relayed a part of a different thread as your poll, and the quotes are not yours. I don't happen to see a lot of swoop proximity dangers. Most swoopers either burn it down pretty quick or hang in brakes until later so there tends to be a gap for general pattern landers.....or they mostly hop and pop. I do see separation lazyness but not from just one facet of canopy pilot.

I didn't say all swoopers, just some) that you can do it in the same landing area as those of us that don't choose to fly our canopies that way... I've seen it at least once every frickin' time I've been to Perris with regards to the grass landing area... and even at Elsinore I've seen it where, even Canopy separation, is canopy separation, is canopy separation. You know there have been events and fatalities due to lack of separation were no swooping was present. Everybody abiding by the pattern but piling up on one another somewhere on the gentle base- to-final turn. Everybody swears they had there head on a swivel and in this case most of the canopies were roughly at the same altitude, regular speeds, no swoopy dives from different altitudes and headings. Most large DZ will have canopy pilots of all levels on the same load, you can't strictly assign swoopers to the " high performance swoop pond" for landings. The jump may involve students that they need to stay in the area for or video gear which does not mix well with pond water. Most regular swoopers are better than average at allowing for separation. While the genaral population is pretty much a mixed breed when it comes to separation but most of the incursions are not dramatic due to slower speeds, although still deadly. Is your issue strictly with swoopers that have separation violation tendencies? Or really all jumpers who don't allow for separation or have settled on a dangerous canopy proximity comfort level regardless of speed? I don't swoop but I am curious.

For a base ring I like to use Schedule 40 electricians CPC pipe. Schedule 40 is thick enough that the hoop wont kink or warp under flight loads. Home depot has it. To bend just heat it. With practice you can get it like spagetti and very plyable. I do mine over an open BBQ. I don't recommend touching any part of the cooking surface. That stuff is noxious and leathal. Don't burn just soften. The best heater is actually what the electricians use on the job site, which looks like a little box with heating strips in it and an opening at each end. To spice the ends together I use garden hose internal fit splice, also from HD, Pressure fit no glue needed if done while soft.

Dick Hurtz.

Hugh Jorgan.

You are supposed to get two and pass one down..... to me.

Demons don't melt!!!!!!!!!

I missed the memo...is that why they turned the heater on? Ciels- Michele Those little green people like it very hot, even hotter when they are administering the the probe. Thats why they have shown us the technology for very efficient, clean burning units that make heat and some power. Carefull about not getting the memo, your city just went commercial with theirs. Magnolia is just a few miles from your house Michele. And I bet anything the subterranean levels are crawling with the pre-invasion force- disguised as engineers who like the probe.

My Jeep has three sticks

missed the all-time high by one degree - we checked in at 112/feels like 118. So...what's it gonna be like where you are? Ciels- Michele Funny, my area ( inland) was 118, record though is 122. Riding the "air-cooled" motorcycle into work that afternoon felt like standing long term behind the Otter engine during loading, but for 20 min. Since I work at a terra-forming heat generator, that does make some electrical power, for the impending Martian invasion, this was to be the high lite or low temps of my day/night. It is ludicrous hot there!!

word!

Duece matters muncho. Few dot commers have such a fine tuned sense of humor. The creepy guy on the cover art for your DVD is completely replaceable though, except for the neon tube, thats cool! I got to get me one of those.

forward speed. the Acro is'nt known for it. With the right pilot its pretty respectable. A bunch of S-3ers have to punch it to get away from our local acro guy. But we do consider him the right pilot.

Speaking of beer, we had one brave hairy individual volunteer to have a Birdman logo waxed out of his chest last night. If you remember the waxing scene from the 40 yr old virgin, last night was even better.I'll post some pictures as I am sure macca will later as apparently thats what Mates do for one another here I see this as a start of very bad things to come!

Brother I feel for your pain, You did look very knakered on Saturday while I was watching you guys.........from the pool under the shade.

Is it any wonder that throughout the industry DZOs are saying that wingsuits take the most planning and cost more too? Having a few unpaid slots for load organizers costs too, but somehow at some DZs their value is recouped in the attraction of more business. The same could be said of a tourist tandem passenger seeing a wingsuit flyby by a few thousand feet away while under canopy. I've seen a few glamour shots like this in DZ office photographs but to see it in person is quite the sell.

At $43 thousand USD each, I don't think you will see too many of these at the local DZ any time soon. 43K is only if the gob'ment is buying them, you know how it is with contractors Lou. You could build that thing for under $400 in supplies from the aircraft spruce catalog.....if only you could download the plans from somewhere on the internet.

FIA, FAI, Its hard to tell who is who nowadays.

Nothing crooked about the dashing young ex military fighter jock with the big black car that looks like the batmobile on steriods. You got to vote for him just on his debonaireness alone. Except for the fact that the quiet laidback southern California guy took it before the brits could try a second time and eventually break it in their second attempt. But the real issue is the stuffy record organization that rejects the facts.Yeah their name started with F something. This couldn't be the same organization we want anywhere around wingsuits could it?

Who/what is the FAI? Are those the guys that fail to recognize Craig Breedlove as the first man to break the sound barrier in a rocket car?

I lurk a few westcoast EAA chapters and the opinion is that Oshcosh is/was just as big a mess. Its the reason other similar events around the country are getting bigger and attracting airventure refugees. Good news is that they have listened to the complaints and have started to turn things that are within their control around for the better.

My wife doesn't care how many wingsuits i have or buy -- Would she care if you bought a real hot pink one?

Look at PLFXperts avatar. Start with something like this. With practice you should be able to bring your arms down and out. If this doesn't work blame her not me.