kallend 2,027 #51 April 18, 2010 QuoteI think there is no deed to define what is wingsuit or not. What should be defined is the flight angle of the flying formation. Wingsuit formation should fly properly. Falling in a group is not flying. There is another discipline for that. Indeed, all other skydiving disciplines define themselves by what the jumpers DO rather than by what they wear.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taz 0 #52 April 18, 2010 Quotethere is no deed to define what is wingsuit or not. What should be defined is the flight angle of the flying formation. Wingsuit formation should fly properly. Falling in a group is not flying. There is another discipline for that. QuoteIndeed, all other skydiving disciplines define themselves by what the jumpers DO rather than by what they wear. Vertical Relative Work (VRW) and head-down formation records are defined by flight angle, but skydivers do not require an additional piece of equipment to fly in a head-down orientation. Same for belly-to-earth formations. What we do (and our flight angle) requires equipment. Even putting aside the complexities of taking reliable, comparable measurements of glide angle for any given flight, the definition of a wingsuit seems critical to the future of competition and individual performance records. Artistic comps, some potential future version of 4-way Horizontal RW, and even individual distance records, etc. can be more simply differentiated by the equipment we use. CRW is defined by the use of equipment, and there are frequent comparisons (some more convincing than others).It's the Year of the Dragon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcbfly 1 #53 April 30, 2010 A wing suit is a gravity powered, weight shift controlled glider where the pilot is the airframe and the wing is comprised of flexible materials. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
