Skwrl

Try them both. They're very different suits. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Funny you should mention this... I have an old Tonysuit S-bird that has a similar design in the booties - basically, you zip the bootie/legs down and there is a magnet that helps hold it shut. No problems with it, although it does tend to accumulate metal crap on the magnet. I've yet to stick to my fellow jumpers or the plane. I'm in the process of retrofitting something like this on a Phoenix-Fly Ghost3 I got last year, because I've had problems getting the snap of the booties undone under canopy. I'm also adding leg zip extenders for ease of access, for what that's worth... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I hope you meant "deceased", not "diseased". Because it's totally cool to make a pilot chute from a dead pilot, but I don't want to pack it if he had, like, psoriasis. Just kidding - I never pack anyway. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

It depends on what you mean by 'here'. Personally, I like to know when people might have a bias (in favor or against) a particular manufacturer when reading a review. I mean, would you trust a review of the new model Toyota if it was written by a Toyota dealer? Or a Honda dealer? Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

What's your goal with a larger suit? Distance? Hang time? XRW? I tend to ignore people trying to sell me something. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

There's a related question here, because the causation/correlation thing isn't super clear. Another reason why people might land off is that they are MORE experienced (and, coincidentally, more likely to wear larger suits). I've known plenty of highly experienced wingsuiters who want to go chase puffies, when their less experienced counterparts don't want to risk it (a reasonable response). (Not saying it's a good thing, I'm saying it happens.) In short, just like you don't need a big suit for great performance, you don't need a small suit to avoid being a screw up. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

From my bank account, yes. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

As an attornney who has also had some significant experience in the healthcare field, I think that you have omitted some things from consideration. (1) "we don't have a single payer system, which is able to negotiate down prices" - there is a significant difference between "price" and "cost." And as you are also aware, when the "price" of something is given a ceiling, the result is scarcity because "price" and "cost" are not the same thing. The mixing of "cost" and "price" is, in my opinion, the biggest single problem we have in the whole debate. (2) As an attorney in the healthcare law field, you are also aware of the effect of anti-trust law. In order to maintain market viability and consumer choice, any delivery of healthcare is subject to being viewed in terms of monopoly. The reason is that "monopoly" power is generally viewed as bad. How can you reconcile the philosphical framework of anti-trust with the creation of a monopoly power over the price of healthcare? (3) As one who teaches healthcare law, would you agree with me that the primary policy considerations for a healthcare system number three, which are: (a) Quality; (b) Cost; and (c) Accessibility. You can't have all three (high quality, low cost and available on demand). To this extent healthcare is an exception to most economic models. (4) In your experience, would you agree that the pricing for healthcare services is based upon Medicare reimbursement? So there is a de facto single-payer negotiated price? To sum up, doesn't a single-payer system eliminate bargaining power under the fundamentals of law that we all learn? And is there an example anywhere in the world where a single-payer system has not resulted in either: (1) low quality/inequality of treatment; or (2) rationing and significant wait times? By the way, you know that health insurance companies have been exempt from federal antitrust law since at least the 1940s, right? I know it's unrelated to your thesis, but the idea that it's a competitive market isn't quite a fair description of it. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Boy, I wish I had as much time to write as much on fora as you guys do... Let's see... On the cost versus price issue - I understand the difference between price and cost, and you're right, I should have said "prices would be significantly lower". Having said that, how do you explain the per capita expenditure differences in the US versus Europe? In terms of the antitrust/competitive issue, I think part of the problem is that the costs are confused/hidden. The actual cost of healthcare (individual and society) is different than what one pays one's insurance (or what we collectively pay in taxes). Having said that, purchasing power matters - pharma charges far more for drugs in the US than we do for the same drugs in Europe. Why's that, do you suppose? Did you watch the video? If you're saying "well, we have higher costs because of higher quality", I'm curious what metric are you basing it on? For pharmaceutical products, Medicare generally sets the floor; private insurance generally pays more then Medicare. Even in single payer systems, however, private insurance exists, albeit they're more expensive. When the single payer systems a significant purchaser in the market, however, they have the ability to negotiate the prices down relative to a diverse group of purchasers. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

As someone who teaches a graduate school level course on health care law and works as a lawyer at a pharmaceutical company, I can explain why health care is so expensive in the US: unlike many other systems, we don't have a single payer system, which is able to negotiate down prices. If we had a single payer (or, preferably, a small number of competitive payers), costs would be significantly lower. Useful viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M * None of this is the view of my employer. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Try before you buy... The right suit for one guy (even one stocky guy) may not be the right suit for another. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Where did you have yours done? I'd love a test with that level of specificity, and I wasn't aware that any of the tests were capable of narrowing down the geography that narrowly. I had mine done a while back, and (interestingly) I learned that most people now in Ireland are descended from people who migrated from what's now Spain... Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Thanks! Could you make sure you backfly it? One of the things that I've been looking for is info on how the Squirrel line backflies. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Careful with that, man... I hear that if you say her name out loud three times while looking in a mirror, she appears and makes non-sensical pronouncements about wingsuit flying (because she's a paraglider pilot and fashion model) while simultaneously insulting everyone in the thread. Edited to add: I'm forwarding the audio from that link to the CIA so they can use it for additional torture while waterboarding folks. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Yep. Have been using it since the month after it came out. Great camera. Very happy. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Today I learned that there are only two sizes of wingsuits: "perfectly safe and acceptable Small" and "ZOMG, you're gonna fucking die Large". This should make my purchasing options easier in the future. Edit: verb tense. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I hope you're also joking there.....the suit Jhonny flew was 'huge'!!! Ummm... Not arguing with most of what you wrote, but for those who haven't seen it, a Scorpion (the suit Jhonny flew) is almost exactly the same size as an S-bird. It has a different wing shape than an S-bird (arm wing is slightly swept back, lower tail root), but is otherwise nearly identical. Source: I had one briefly by accident. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

You spelled it wrong, but yeah. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Glad it worked out for you. I had mixed luck when I tried that. Given how expensive suits are, I typically feel it's worth a little bit of time and effort to check them out first. But it will probably be fine if the person buying the suit has got a boat load of cash and/or isn't very picky. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

When you're there, try her Havok and then try my Ghost, and you'll see the difference yourself. The Ghost is basically the Havok, but with grippers. And I'll repeat the line I always say - never buy a suit you haven't demoed. I don't care if someone else says its the awesomest suit that ever awesom'ed out of awesome-town. There's no one size fits all solution; suits vary by pilot. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

I dunno guys, I think it might be faked...

The best advice I've heard, from a wingsuiter with tons more wingsuit jumps than me, is "TRY BEFORE YOU BUY". That applies whether it's a Tonysuit, Phoenix-Fly, Squirrel, Intrudair, S-fly, whatever. What's a super awesome suit for one jumper may not be the right fit for another. We have P3s for our wingsuit school. I've put a bunch of jumps on an R-bird. They are both good suits, but they fly differently from each other. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

http://snapsort.com/compare/Canon-Rebel-SL1-vs-Canon-Rebel-T5i Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Yeah, but this way you can tell everyone that you're a Tonysuit test pilot. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork

Oh, how I wish that were so. Check the attached pics of a brand spanking new S-bird placed over my old S-bird. You'll note it has innie-outie zippers. Skwrl Productions - Wingsuit Photography Northeast Bird School - Chief Logistics Guy and Video Dork