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If that's all you see in the videos, I pray you don't coach. A coach that can't be nearer the student needs to learn their suit better, or quit "coaching." Students shouldn't be pixel-distant. It's really that simple. The coach in those videos claims significantly more experience than most anyone posting in these fora, so why is it they're so far off in all their posted videos? The Swift would be the commonality (the COACH is flying a Swift, not the student). Please visit our school, as we have Tony, Alien, PF all hanging on the rack, and we've had Birdman and Sfly in the school as well. I have no problem with PROPER fall rate control in any suit other than the Swift. All the coaches here are of the same opinion. Re-read the post. The Swift isn't relevant to the Colugo or the Aura at all. Then again, if you're a beach-ball hugger, it's understandable that you might not understand the elevators I'm talking about.

You're kinda showing your antiquated knowledge; .avi has been an unsupported format since 2005. Most media formats are compressed, and .avi is not a format that supports compression, metadata, or tagging, necessary for most formats of today (pro and consumer). Microsoft doesn't even support .avi containers for their own codecs these days.

It is out of balance with a firm wing and a firm tail (that wants to be wide) with no pressure in the belly to the thigh. It also flies best with arms swept way back.

I've put nearly a dozen jumps on two different Swifts. It's not the suit advertised. It's a very well-made suit, but the way it flies is not at all suitable for beginners, and isn't really appropriate for learning standard skills (forward motion/fall rate control/basic acro). Elevators don't work with this suit at all due to how the wing/tail are shaped and pressurize. Lighter people/women will struggle with flying it well. Heavy people will do better with it. Watch the coach in this video as they fly a Swift. https://vimeo.com/76720810 Coach in this video is also flying a Swift. The coach is in pixel-proximity to the student. https://vimeo.com/76577431 One of my very experienced coaches flew the Swift with a Level 3 student and couldn't manage the up/down skill sets with the student. If the coach sucks, if the student isn't trained well and will fly a boxman position, if a deep arch (common in poorly trained first-timers) is the body position, then it stays quite stable. All of the coaches at the Elsinore School have jumped it. None are impressed. It could be a great suit with a few modifications. Wings and tail are too large for students. It's not nearly as high pressure as it might appear, so deployment isn't an issue. Stick with Sfly Indy or Profly, Phoenix-Fly P1/2/3, Tony IBird for FFCs and learning to fly. Forget acro in this suit. Forget about quality backflying (you can backfly it, just as one can backfly a Vampire, but that's not where it is designed to be). Forget flying in formations where everyone else is flying P2's, P3's, Rbirds, Tbirds, IBirds. Overall, the suit is way out of balance. This seems to be the consensus of most experienced coaches. The biggest selling point is it is made of quality material, has good customer support, and can be obtained in less than 6-8 weeks. I'd really hoped to see this suit match the balance and quality of flight that the Colugo and Aura offer. Squirrel has done well with those two suits, and the market could stand another beginner/intermediate suit, but this isn't it.

http://library.creativecow.net/spottedeagle_douglas/Sony-AX1-Camcorder/1 Not really skydiving related, but it might be of interest to a few of you.

Here's how it could go: DZ: You can't jump that camera setup here. MadSkillz: Why? DZ: It's against our posted rules because [whatever the reason is]. MadSkillz: Fuck you I'm going to jump it anyway. DZ: No, actually, you're not. You can either hand it over to me and jump something that meets our rules, or you can choose not to jump at all here. MadSkillz: You can't confiscate my gear - it's my personal property! DZ: Then, like I said, you're welcome not to jump at all. But you're not jumping here with that setup. Our DZ, our rules. Where's the lawsuit, exactly? What law did the DZ break? The law keeping MadSkillz down? And that's an almost verbatim accounting of what has happened on multiple occasions. In one case, the person was found with it on the plane, and it was given to the pilot, to be retrieved upon landing.

Color me ignorant. Could you help me find a viable reference to the point in history where Jews were strapping homemade bombs of nails, ball-bearings, and dynamite to their bodies and blowing themselves up in malls or other public places? Or where Jews hijacked aircraft and took down buildings? Reductio ad Hitlerum?

Not unless the DZ specifically has a WFH/Work For Hire agreement in place. Every DZ I've worked with, I've encouraged them to put one in place for this very reason. ^^This. To recap: From a DZO/DZM perspective: 1. Always assure, in advance, that the video is the property of the DZ. The DZ retains the only copy(ies) of the video; it does not leave the DZ's premises (or control). Due to technology, this has to be monitored/enforced diligently. This is regardless of whether the videographer is a staff employee or an independent contractor. (It also means don't let anyone outside the DZO's control lurk a tandem while wearing a camera.) 2. Always put this in the form of a contract, signed by the videographer, in advance of the jump(s). I realize you're an attorney. However, the video cannot be construed as the property of the DZ _unless_ there is a specific (albeit very simple) WFH in place. It needs to be in a written form. Section 201 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides the copyright in work product “vests initially in the author or authors of the work.” Thus, in the absence of an exception to the general rule, the copyright for a work product will be owned by the developer/author (the videographer, in this conversation). The exception is the written WFH agreement.

I like to do a little tease by unzipping each just a few inches at a time till I show off some thigh. I bet folks on the ground love it, I just know they are watching. Everyone likes looking up under a man's skirt. Even if they deny it.

none of the "all in one" solutions are functional/suitable for tandem stills and simultaneous video.

I don't see much difference from one to the other. Here, we have well-posted rules. Staff know how to manage the conversations when they occur. Past that, it falls to inserting common sense. For example, at one DZ this summer, there was a young lady who met the requirements for jumping a small camera. Yet she can't land standing up, and on multiple occasions had landed on or very near the runway. She wanted to jump a camera. I expressed my concerns, the DZ's own S&TA supported the concerns and she was not allowed to wear a camera. I don't know if she went down the road or not. Like some others, she saw it as a sign of "people trying to keep her down" vs understanding that she simply wasn't ready to wear a camera yet, in spite of her jump #'s.

Not unless the DZ specifically has a WFH/Work For Hire agreement in place. Every DZ I've worked with, I've encouraged them to put one in place for this very reason.

good eye. Paraflight Swift

Not just aware of one DZ, but rather aware of several DZ's, S&TA's, and SO's that have stopped/confiscated cameras both on the ground and in the air. You assume a lot in your post, when the exact opposite is usually the case (low timers jumping with other low timers). Hard to stop? Perhaps. But that doesn't mean one stops trying.

The G3 is not optimal for any kind of camera work, even recreational. It's all but useless for tandems. Tonfly Shark, Bonehead FTP, Optik Mantle are all better choices. Skysystems Wes Vapor Pro is a great helmet too. As far as tandem video, the BEST resource would be someone from your local DZ if the DZ has its own editing/operating system. I'm a fan of any of the Sony camcorders. Many of our guys are shooting AS25's for video (great stabilization, the AS30 is the new model). Some are shooting GoPro2's for stills. A Canon G10/11/12 are all nice for stills too.

https://vimeo.com/80241524 Thanks to Andy Clements...

You can't fix stupid.... but you sure as hell don't have to hire them! Occasionally, videos are released as "retribution", I think. Disgruntled videographer leaves the DZ and all...

Good call, the scene will be shot on the Promenade in Santa Monica in 2 weeks, along with a famous diner/cafe on the Promenade. No holiday music tho...They'll be drinking coffee, walking the Promenade, and the pier. From there...the story takes off. Leave it to Andrea to come up with the best scenario.

Iv'e been informed this is not a first date.

Since this is a community of varied male/female, weathly/have-not, intelligent/not so bright people , I'd appreciate some input to a script concept a student of mine is editing. If you were to plan a romantic evening, and had a budget cap of 20.00, what would you plan?

A-if you feel "both ways are good" you might want to re-think the scenario better. B-There is quite a bit more to Shindig's death than just "fiddling with his camera, releasing toggles to find he had a bad canopy." The two aren't at all related, and can't be related.

Then you should have opened higher. Let's say you thought you didn't clear traffic after unzipping arms, releasing your toggles, and now you are in full flight. Then, while flying much faster (without much control) you release the toggles, clear the legs and find your inputs (from moving around) cause you to turn towards someone else. You're likely not looking forward, so you aren't aware that you're heading towards someone else at a high rate of speed. They're unaware you're flying fast because they too, are still unzipping. What may happen next? Hopefully you're aware enough to recognize at a low altitude that your legwings don't need to be stowed and that part of the process can be ignored for this jump (Like this this guy] ). Hopefully you'll open higher next time.

Unzip arms Hands on risers to steer clear of traffic/orient towards the DZ Unzip legs (stow em' if that's your preference, I recommend it) Collapse slider Release toggles Fly home

Truthfully, you haven't. Saying "you signed the same waiver I did" isn't exactly an apology, is it? It's unfortunate that your fuckup that cost someone a part of their career and a significant portion of their retirement is "getting old" for you. You also "pranked" two new wingsuiters out over the ocean and they landed well out to sea. It's fortunate it didn't end worse. We both know what I'm referring to about jumping "straight." Pranks or not being aware of others and their limitations, can cause serious injury or death. It's not a matter of "that's getting old" but rather recognizing that your actions can have permanent impact on someone's life or death. Whether they signed the same waiver you did or not.

Last time you fucked around in the air, you permanently cost another skydiver their hearing (not to mention a lost camera battery and lens). One can only hope everyone was sober this time around.