cpoxon

I don't think he was actually flying, I think he was suspended

Forgot to say, usually I'll set my first alarm to 4,000 and my second to 3,000 for deployment. I once had the two alarms sound almost consecutively when there should have been at least 10-15 seconds between the two of them. Again, moving my head around may have confused the unit as with the above graphs. Just goes to show devices can't be relied upon.

Funny you should ask. Last weekend I went up with 3 ProTracks. One was mounted in my helmet (Oxygn) and the other two were mounted on the lateral webbing of my Voodoo in the same set-up as is used for Speed Skydiving. I think with the Skyflyer now that the wing extends down below this webbing therefore the ProTracks mounted there are sitting ontop/behind the wing. If wingsuit wings are like airplane wings then this would be an area of faster moving/lower pressure air. Not sure if the readings are higher or lower, but they certainly look cleaner. The most extreme example is with jump 720. The black line is from the helmet mounted ProTrack whereas the coloured ones come from the laterally mounted units. I think the fluctations come from moving my head around. Unfortunately, I wasn't wearing my camera on these jumps, so it's difficult to tell. I'll be doing that next time, along with some ankle or trouser pocket mounted units i.e. under the wing. Here are the graphs to the other jumps: 718 719 723 724 The server on which these links reside is a bit flaky. Please let me know if you have problems accessing it!

Had the pleasure of jumping with a first time jumper this weekend. His deployment was somewhat interesting thanks to a dipped shoulder, a lazy pull and failing to properly collapse his wings again after throwing out. Despite a larger pilot chute and longer bridle, the PC got stuck on his back in the burble for approximately 1 second. As it released from the burble, the bridle snaked around the jumper's foot and took just under a second to release until the bag started to come cleanly out of the container. Attached are some captures from the video which demonstrate the importance of good drills! Apologies for the quality of the images but I wasn't as close as I could have been and I've used the PlayBack zoom feature of the PC-110 to magnify the images. DSC00001.JPG - Deployment DSC00002.JPG-DSC00008.JPG - Pilot chute stuck in burble DSC00009.JPG-DSC00017.JPG - Pilot chute escapes burble but bridle is snaked around foot DSC00018.JPG - Bridle frees and deployment continues normally DSC00047.JPG - Jumps rotates almost 180 degrees on deployment!

Do you have this data downloaded into JumpTrack? With the graph detail? Could you send me the database so I can put it on www.speedskydiving.org for everyone to view?

Where does your friend jump in England? Are there any other birdmen at his DZ?

The only way I know of doing it is through screen shots. I suggest you email L&B with your idea; you know how good their customer service is and they are very receptive to ideas that improve the product. They are pretty busy and it may be a while for the next update to come out though. Lummy's idea is a good one. You can right-mouse click on the graph and select Export from the context-sensitive menu and export the time, altitude and speed data in a comma-separated or tab-delimited file. This can easily be imported into Excel to graph. Do you want to export the graphs to show people? I'd be willing to host your JumpTrack database on http://www.speedskydiving.org which allows you to graph your data dynamically online. You can even overlay multiple jumps. When I get a moment I intend to allow people to upload their databases for themselves but at the moment you'll need to send them to me via email (the .DB, .MB and .PX files)

Get them to logo up the underside with "FrankenVengeance" whilst you are at it! Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

My other half has a DV copy. I'll try and post some stills this evening.

That's no aircraft, that's Adrian Nicholas filming(and not in a wingsuit either). My other half was on that load. He was faster on the Brit100 footage... Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Why is it a "pimp" rig? If the rig was decorated with the Stars and Stripes you'd be calling it patriotic and saluting it! This rig appears regularly in an advert on the back cover of the UK Skydiving magazine modelled by Knut Krecker and can be seen in the gallery on the manufacturers website: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 I think Tim Porter has been loaned the rig for occasions like the World Air Games too.

Airtec GmbH Cypres AAD Power Consumption by Gary peek

Hi Thomas, Very interesting. What are the practicalities of jumping a wingsuit over the North Pole? Do you have an extra large wingsuit to get the warm clothing underneath or do you have thinner but more effective insulation? The link to your website from your profile has a ";" instead of an "l" in it When do you expect to put the photos up of the wingsuit jump itself on the page. I can't wait to see them!

Think so. As usual there are several events that combined. Firstly the guy who zipped by was fixated on the base guy and not looking around. As he put on some speed to catch up he generated a lot of lift which caused him to zoom past me. I was above him which made it very difficult for him to see me, which is bad on my part, but situations change quite rapidly and it did allow me to see and anticipate him. The forum only allows 300k attachments so I wasn't able to put a longer clip where you can see me looking around keeping an eye on him although he's not in view very much due to the angle and the width of the lens. Wingsuit flying is very 3D but because a lot of it is face to earth I think we limit our field of vision. Like I said, the old rules apply, be aware of where everyone is. If you can't then the group is probably too big. And keep your head on a swivel!

People think wingsuit flying is slow, but it can get pretty fast. All the same rules apply; keep your head on a swivel! DontBlink.MPG

Whilst I love Bonehead Composites products as knock protectors and camera platforms, this highlights how useless any skydiving helmet would be after a hard blow. "Proper" helmets are designed to deform and absorb impacts, rendering the helmet useless but saving your head. A helmet that is still intact after a 50mph impact with the earth seems not to conform with this ideology, hence the warning stickers inside!!

I seems that helmets without heads in fall about 50 mph. This is the plot from an original Mindwarp with a PC1 in a d-box that came off my head after a freefall collision This is the plot from a ProTrack from Didier Moinel Delande who was training for a Speed Skydiving jump when he lost his Oxygn. 200 mph decceleration in 10 seconds.

Robert Pecnik is in the Lauterbrunnen valley, Switzerland, at the moment. I don't know if he's the only one running off the suits but it may have something to do with it. Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

Dive pools

British Nationals 2002 Results Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

How about if you attach a belly mount to D-rings on the rig?

Eric Denney is the webmaster. He's probably a better contact: EDenney@visionent.com Skydiving Fatalities - Cease not to learn 'til thou cease to live

For those of you who can't (or won't!) install the OziExplorer software, here are some captures of the graphs that are produced and a plot of the paths taken. Note the speed measurements are horizontal, i.e. across the ground. The increases in altitude are visible in AltVsTime2 and AltVsDistance2.

The Weston Wingsuit Festival which took place this weekend was a fantastic success! I'd like to thank Andy and Bev Ford for organising and making it happen, Dave Woods (CCI at Weston) and all his staff for their help (including getting in Texel's Caravan), all those who lent their demo and previous suits so we could get people in the air, the experienced jumpers who took the new guys out on their first jumps, the jumpers themselves (new and experienced), L&B for providing some ProTracks to record the flights (data will be appearing on my site soon), the guys from GPSDrawing.com (who came along to record data for their project and lend their GPS recorders. I wouldn't like to thank the British weather which tried to spoil our fun but failed. Have a look at some of the pictures Swardy took.

I was supposed to be on a Zeppelin load recently but it didn't work out. Hopefully next time...