TomAiello

Please review the Forum Rules regarding personal attacks. I've banned you from this forum for 14 days. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

I've heard that particular rumor from some very knowledgable (read: their work address is on Infinite Loop in Cupertino) Mac folks I know. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

I don't know this for a fact, but I'm guessing that the primary difference between you and Yuri (that's Yuri A, not Yuri K) is not suit, or weights, or even body type, but overall wingsuit skill level. To say that you could smoke a particular person in whatever suit/configuration doesn't really show anything, simply because you could smoke almost anyone in any suit/configuration. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Does anyone know where to source this material (it's for a non-wingsuit project, if you're worried about competition or something). Feel free to PM me if it's a trade secret. Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

I'm not certain what's meant there, either. It seems to me that the warning would be just as applicable to an unvented as a vented canopy. Does anyone know who wrote that section, and maybe the author can explain what they meant? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

It's best to have a rigger, or be one. It's fairly easy to do, but you do need some specialty equipment. The brake setting is (usually--there is another way to do it that is less common) a piece of the same suspension line which is fingertrapped through the control line (often threaded in and out for multiple brake settings). Fingertrapping is essentially inserting one line inside another one. After the line is fingertrapped in, you'll want to sew it in place. Most people (myself included) prefer to use a bar tack stitch for this task. Unfortunately bartackers (the sewing machine that makes this stitch) are reasonably expensive, and not too common in some places (we've only just gotten our first one in the local community here in Twin Falls, for example). You can "field rig" with some other sewing machine, but I'd recommend using the bar tack for long term settings. That means you need a fingertrapping tool (easy enough to make from 40 cents worth of standard wire), some extra suspension line (which can be purchased from many sources, but you need so little that most riggers will have some they'll give you) and a sewing machine capable of putting in a bar tack (which means you need to find a rigger, who, conveniently, can show you the rest of the process). Hope that helps. I know it's vague, but I don't have the time to draw up diagrams on fingertrapping right now. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

You're likely going to have to travel to Idaho in order to take a course. Even Morpheus, in Z-Hills, teaches most of their courses here. For real advice, I'd recommend getting in touch with them, since they're your best nearby resource. If travelling to Z-hills is too much effort, you're really not going to like BASE jumping. There is a list of FJC's at the end of the article here. For things you can practice while skydiving, see CR's Canopy Drills. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Unfortunately, they were probably unable to take your arms along when they did their research. Where you set your toggles is primarily dependent on the relation between your arm length (different for every person) and the flare stroke of the canopy (different for every canopy model/size). If the toggles set are too long for you, you won't get the bottom of your flare, and you'll land hard. If the toggles are set too short for you, when you let them up, you still don't get full flight, because you've still got some tension in the lines. It's important that you check your own toggle settings to be sure that (a) at the very bottom of the toggle stroke you can either just stall, or not quite stall the canopy (which one depends on your personal preferences), and (b) at the top of the toggle stroke your canopy is in full flight with zero tail deflection. As an example, I'm a short, fat guy. That means I jump really big canopies, but I've got stubby little arms that have trouble getting the entire control stroke. This means that I'll have to choke my toggles up a lot more than, for example, Stane, who jumps the same size canopies, but has much, much longer arms (because he's a tall, skinny guy). The same thing applies when I try to use the factory toggles settings sorted out by Adam Filipino (a much thinner person than myself). On average, I have to choke my CR toggles up something like 12 inches from the factory settings (I need a bit less on the Atair settings). The BR and Apex gear I have had to move the toggles a lot less, probably because their test jumpers had body types more similar to my own. Bottom line: the manufacturer can only guess at an average toggle setting. Each jumper should set their toggles personally, to get themselves maximum flare power, while still ensuring that full flight is available. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Fuck. That sucks. Fly free, Bennii. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Are you asking about brake setting or toggle setting? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Well, he did tour the US in a car with "Dutch Boys Inside" clearly written on the window. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

As the moderator, one of my privileges is the right to "have the last word" when I wish. For this discussion, here it is: Ryan, you win the official "nerd of the year" award for being the first person ever to invoke their SAT scores in an argument in this forum. J, you are the runner up for demanding some kind of proof. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

News report here gives the time as 3:00 am. Legal action is stil pending in this case. Please conduct yourself accordingly in posting. Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

By quick internet check, sunrise in his part of the world is about an hour and a quarter before it is in your part. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

But apparently you don't like blow jobs? I happen to think the mouth is a pretty good part of a woman. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Ah, I see you've had dinner with him. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Eccentric? Nah. They don't have an albino _or_ a midget. Heck, they don't even have a bank robber. Those guys are booooring. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Which, in 99% of incidents, would actually be the correct response. I wonder why we don't drop firefighters via parachute onto the roofs of those buildings. Or heck, why not just bring in a helicopter to pull those people out? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Actually, my wife has a rule that nothing Orange can be worn in our house during football season. Honestly, I've never been much for organized sports. The very first football game I ever went to was because my wife dragged me there. My wife, on the other hand, is a _huge_ fan. We live in Idaho, where you just don't see this sort of thing, and we've got a team flag flying from our house, big magnetic emblems on her car, and a personalized car tag. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

All, I've removed several posts of brand warfare from this thread. If you want to rave about your brand, or trash your buddy's, please start a separate thread to do it rather than side tracking technical discussion. There were a couple reasonable comments that got caught in there, too, so if you had one of those, feel free to post it again, and apologies for removing it. Thanks! -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

No, no, no. You must root for them unless they are Florida. Maybe I should change my sig line to "proud to be a gator hater" for a week or so. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

It's ok to be a gator hater.

When you deauthorize, it should clear all the purchases off your computer. Is it doing that? I'd say if you have an Apple store in easy distance, that's the best fix. From the store, they can call iTunes support and get them to fix the problem much more easily than you can. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

Do you know if Atair (Slovenia) will distribute it's products to the USA, perhaps through Morpheus? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com

It should only have to work with the purchased files. I've got about 60 of those, and it's almost done re-downloading now. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com