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If your pull altitude is 3000ft and you are jumping with someone else, your breakoff is at 4000ft, track, and then start your wave off about 3300ft so you are throwing your pilot chute at close to 3000ft. No, a couple hundred feet isn't very important, but try and do the dive you planned. If you have someone very close to you during your track off, tracking alittle more for clean air is suggested and a BIG waveoff to let them know your going to pull is great.

Hmmmm? Please define "senior"? Great to see someone with some many years in the sport try something new, or maybe I should say something that he has seen come back again, only this time alot more safe then the wingsuits of the past..... Thanks for the pics! Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Here try these. They clean your screen too! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

No, but owning a Harley may get you a hummer? Sorry, I couldn't pass it up..... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

To answer your question of the flying styles of the 2 different style suits, the answer is yes. Learning on one style suit, then switching to another will take some getting used to. Any wingsuit will have the same flight pattern, but some suits will take you farther and faster. Learning to jump a wingsuit is a blast whichever suit you choose to learn on. It's after you have learned the basic saftey requirements of the particular suit your jumping at that time, that your new world opens up to what suit to buy because you want the BEST. BULLSHIT Every suit has different performance. Sometime the pilot jumping a lower performance suit can fly with a person jumping a high performance suit.... In this case it could be pilot skill, or maybe just a leaner body with more wing span? Don't let anyone try and influence you on what suit they think is the best. They all are great and I'm sure we'll see many more designs with the makers saying how it is the BEST and how it's the easiest to get into, and how it's the fastest to put your rig onto it........ The wingsuit erea has only just begun, again! Except this time they are being produced for the mass market of jumpers and have been proven to safe, well safe as the designs and the manufacturing goes....... So which ever suit you deside to learn on, ENJOY the freedom of flight and most of all be safe.

Thanks for the visual JP, you just made me puke and I dont think I'll need that again when I get to Rantoul..... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Hey Mr Natural.... JUMP! It wouldn't be the 1st time someone has thrown up in freefall! Eat something colorful before you go like strawberry yogurt and rassberries! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Nice , but did you have this post sitting in the back of your mind, or were you just looking at posts from way back in DECEMBER? - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Probably adrenaline. Make sure you eat something and stay well hydrated before you jump. Try to relax and just do what your Instructors tell you and you'll be fine. Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

How sweet..... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Don't give Dennis Murphy any ideas Gary...... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

The monowing suits such as the Crossbow, Sugar Glider and the Matter tend to be alot more floaty and have less drive (unless you have alot of experience on the suit so they say ) then the Birdman suits which generate alot of forward speed for lift. Stopping the monowing suit from inflating, or trying to fly it "dirty" is hard to say the least, so having so many different style suits on 1 flocking dive can prove to be unsuccessful. So yes, there is alot to do with the suits AND the jumpers compatibility on a skydive for it to be a successful one. Such as in a BIGWAY RW skydive you wouldn't put a 135lb person with a baggy suit in the base. Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

DONT make it a bad mix. REMEMBER, skydive then scuba dive, never scuba dive then skydive unless your completely outgassed 24 hours later and have NO symptoms at all of DCS. Also do your dive tables correctly. Be safe and have fun.

You said it JP, NOT ME! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Yah, why would you even want to jump in a place with such great scuba diving! Go do a quick week long scuba cert. course if you dont scuba already and ENJOY!!! If you do your pool training you can get a referal for you open water and finish it there. If you don't you'll get there and wish you did! Be safe. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Ask Mathais? Badgirl.... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

I'll be there also John. Did you tell me you were going to Rantoul when we talked in Cross Keys? - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Yah, what JP said.... Don't always think you have to exit facing the prop. Some Instructors don't have the technique nor the ability to, and are always fighting to keep facing the line of flight after exiting, and at times I have seen them rolling onto their side and throwing the drogue to get stable. NOT GOOD Diving exit are great for the cameraman too, as they have a chance to get the look on the students face if they stay close enough. I know your a newly rated Instructor so do the exit that will be safe for you and your student. Be safe Evan.

Maybe out that big door thats open in the back? Exit just as you would out of the Caravan that was there. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Thanks, I can clearly see the picture now...... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

You took the words right out of my mouth...... www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Unfortunatly all of us didn't start jumping a larger DZ running turbine aircraft. The 1 C182 we had was a busy plane and I was the only other Instructor there besides the owner. Manifest had nothing to do with the choice of Instructors, nor should they at any other DZ unless given the right to do so with experience and knowledge of whom is jumping with whom. And you say, Don Balch "USPA includes so many two-JM dives to train the new instructors." ? It may be a good idea to do some reserve sides after getting a new AFF rating, but I have seen on more than a few AFF 2 Instructor jumps, as a mainside Instructor, my newly AFF rated reserve side not only fuck up the exit, but never even make it back up or in to the skydive! Babying the newly rated instructor is in my mind a bunch of bulls**t. IMO, they should have earned that rating at the AFF certification coarse and be ready for ANYTHING given to him after he has it! - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Do it the same as you would without a suit, but hold off on spreading your wings for just a second or two and keep your head high. Its very easy. - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Suck up.... Now go finish the dishes and run her a bath.... - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

Is that suppose to be an answer? - www.WestCoastWingsuits.com www.PrecisionSkydiving.com