slackercruster 0 #1 June 2, 2011 Do you get double the fly time or more? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #2 June 2, 2011 you just stay up until it bores you: then you open your shoot and pop up a quarter mile. some guy was known to fly too close to the sun and the material melted!“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InfiniteSky 0 #3 June 2, 2011 Depends on what suit I'm wearing and how I feel like flying. There is no set flight time. It depends on body type, suit, pilot skill, ect. Going over 2 minutes isn't too hard though, even in smaller suits. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slackercruster 0 #4 June 2, 2011 Quote Depends on what suit I'm wearing and how I feel like flying. There is no set flight time. It depends on body type, suit, pilot skill, ect. Going over 2 minutes isn't too hard though, even in smaller suits. Well, having never jumped, how long does one get with no suit? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BenediktDE 2 #5 June 3, 2011 Fly as you like. My longest flight was 138 seconds, my shortest from the same altitude 48 seconds - same suit. So double the time is easily doable even for a heavy guy with low upper body strength like me.For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
InfiniteSky 0 #6 June 3, 2011 Quote Well, having never jumped, how long does one get with no suit? If you're jumping at 12,500 you're looking at around 55 seconds on your belly without a wingsuit. Less if you're freeflying. You should get out to a DZ and make a jump. If you like it keep jumping and you can eventually try a wingsuit out for yourself. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slackercruster 0 #7 June 3, 2011 QuoteQuote Well, having never jumped, how long does one get with no suit? If you're jumping at 12,500 you're looking at around 55 seconds on your belly without a wingsuit. Less if you're freeflying. You should get out to a DZ and make a jump. If you like it keep jumping and you can eventually try a wingsuit out for yourself. That is my plan. But don't think I will ever meet the 200 jumps in 18 month requirements for s wing suit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
helxen 0 #8 June 3, 2011 Well, if some wings are waiting for you somewhere, you'll be there sooner or later. If that's not really your type of fun or you just think "well, its kinda cool, gonna try that someday" - you'll realize it as well during the course. Also, dont think that you waste two hundred jumps just to get to wingsuit. 200 in 18 is about being current with your skydiving skills, not about stubbornly doing 200 jumps in 18 months, and as it was mentioned thousand times before - doing so totally worth it. There are numerous cases when person tries to get into ws sooner than recommended, myself is not an exception, though later you realize that it was not good idea in general. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 140 #9 June 3, 2011 it's not for everyone.... edited to add : Slacker, put it that way... I suppose you have a driving license.... Could you imagine driving a Formula1/Nascar/whatever racecar after 200 minutes of driving ? And spending 10k$ to do so ? See how wingsuiting and BASE are cheap and fast ? scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
