Who needs to pull...?

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That's right, there is no longer any need to pull... well kind of..

So this past weekend, Karel Goorts from Argus was at nationals with a modified rig that had an AAD setup on the reserve and the main for demo purposes of their AAD. The main was set to go off ~4300ft . So after talking with him, he decided to allow me to wingsuit the rig with a smaller suit, even though it had a spring loaded PC on the main... I also wanted to see how easily I could fool it (can be applied to any AAD for that matter). I threw on my s-fly and off I went.

So I remained in flight as I approached and passed 4300ft... 4200...4000.. 3900.... so I think to myself "I guess it isn't going off since I'm below the 78mph/hr". I start to arch with my wings back (but not in a pull position) to gain some speed in my fall rate and the AAD fires somewhere between 3000-3300.

I did have video of the deployment (camera , but it got zoomed in and was a bit out of focus so it's pretty much useless, but the deployment and opening was clean.

Was fun and interesting. It's nice to get proof/first hand experience about something we all knew about.

Where is my fizzy-lifting drink?

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Was fun and interesting. It's nice to get proof/first hand experience about something we all knew about.

It depends, what do we know? That you can fly slower than 78 mph in a wingsuit or maybe that AADs determination of altitude can be fooled by wingsuit flight? The Argoooooooos can be downloaded, can't it? Would be interesting to see the data from it to see if you did exceed 78 mph going for the pull or whether the unit thought it had only just passed through the activation altitude.

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