TomAiello
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Yes, and yes. Climbers generally use rain flies (from tents or portaledges) or similar pieces of adapted equipment. No one wants to carry a tarp up a wall just to toss with the bags. Besides, if you had a tarp, you'd need to schlare the dongles. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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That's not the case. Since your angular momentum is conserved, you can twist your body and flip by essentially pushing the momentum around. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Non-clicky email addresses can also be harvested. If you want to post an address in a non-harvestable (yet) form, I'd recommend using the form: perrisATapexbase.com. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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If you are doing it off a terminal object, I think it's easier to learn by doing a standard flat and stable exit, then flipping onto your back, then flipping again onto your front. Once you have this down, it's easy to do it in 3 or 4 seconds. As an added bonus, you don't carry any rotation. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I'm pretty sure they're using the "legalese" dictionary. That means we need an interpreter (like Lawrocket, for example) to tell us what it means in our language. The NPS has busted climbers in the near past for tossing bags of gear off rocks. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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This is very good advice. Rounds work well, too. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Are you suggetsing a WS jump? I actually know an exit that meets this criteria. It was shown to me by a friend of mine, who wears a green shirt to work in the back country. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Rick H. (now head of the United States BASE Association and occasional reader of these forums) was able to beat the rap for Aerial Delivery some time in the way back, on behalf of himself and another jumper (Rick's a real lawyer, so he wasn't just some yahoo trying to defend himself in court). I haven't ever asked him details on how he did that, but perhaps he'll read this and chime in. Perhaps it's just that Rick is a better than good attorney, though. Do you think this also applies to jumps made from the park, but landed outside the park boundary? I know of one case where jumpers were busted like that, and they plea bargained, so it never saw court. Isn't that what the trial court decided in Oxx, though? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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People have been busted there based on just having gear in their boat. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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This was the very first aerial I ever did. It seemed to me then (and still does) to be a good safety skill before trying other things (so that I could get off my back if I stalled there). I've found that bringing both hands and both feet in simultaneously helps me start the rotation (you do have to use body english to establish the direction of rotation). I've also found that bringing them (hands and feet) back out helps to stop the rotation once you are belly to earth. You can actually practice this in relative safety in your living room by just jumping up in the air and trying to spin once you're off the ground. You can also do it into a swimming pool (or similar training aid), but you have to be careful of the belly flop potential. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Time for a BASE road trip... Hang in there. Life goes up, and down, and around...but mostly it goes on. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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can you jump the bridge at night? might have to look up if the moon will be out... Yes. The standard rules (i.e. call the sheriff before jumping begins, etc.) apply. In general, the lights on the bridge illuminate the landing area fairly well, as long as you don't go too low (too close to the bridge and you are landing in the shadow of the bridge itself, so the lighting is much worse). If it's your first night jump here, definitely do a short delay and go for the upper landing area. Ease into anything more over the course of several jumps. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I agree. And it scares me that I do so based on the shape of the exit point, rather than the background. "Oh, I recognize that rock, and tuft of moss--that's in France..." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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I played around with several mounts (chest, leg, helmet, etc) and found that the GPS on the back of my head seemed to get the most consistent readings. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Everyone realizes that Memorial Day is pretty much the worst wind condtions of the year here, right? Last year we had 5 ambulance rides Memorial Day, because everyone had to come to Twin at the worst time of the year...sigh. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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The Swiss valley is legal...for now. It's a very good place to tread lightly. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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It was a spoof. All three jumpers were experienced, and they were filming so that one of them (an AFF jump master) could show off the "AFF jump" at his home DZ. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Russians successfully land a wingsuit!!!!!!!
TomAiello replied to veter_'s topic in Wing Suit Flying
Or the runway? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
Russians successfully land a wingsuit!!!!!!!
TomAiello replied to veter_'s topic in Wing Suit Flying
Platform divers use that kind of thing when training. Any idea how much air (or C02, or whatever) would be necessary to create a "landing zone" a couple hundred feet long and hold it for, say, 10 seconds? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com -
Etrex Vista has worked pretty good for me. It takes glide angle tracks and lets you download them into a PC. Be careful to set it to record as often as possible, and try to download the track immediately (rather than saving to the GPS memory) since it loses some data when you save it to the GPS memory. Have you looked at Flybirdman.com? I know that Kevin was doing some GPS stuff, so he might have some good info over there. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Yup. What are you trying to sort out? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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If you were going to do that, why not just eliminate the tandem master and run a standard death camp? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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You can avoid this by doing continuity checks on the outermost lines and the control lines. I do this on every pack job, just before I untwist the control lines. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Well, it's so easy a bag of dogfood could do it--haven't you heard? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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Hmmm. Wouldn't happen to be yet another Red Bull sponsored "jumper" would it? Tandem BASE jumps are phenomenally dangerous. I know of about 5 that have ever been done, all with experienced jumpers in both slots ("passenger" and tandem master). The video of the Norwegian big wall tandems is stunning--imagine jumping a big wall without the ability to track. If I recall correctly, the very first tandem was done by Ted Strong and Robin Heid at Bridge Day, before the FAA allowed tandem jumps from airplanes. Hmmm. I wonder how long until we see tandems out here? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com