Black_Eyes90

is also still jumping, he introduced me into wingsuiting 2015

I had a Problem with linetwists quite often and some Point I realized that I always looked up during opening and that this had helped to Twist somehow. Since then I stopped looking up during opening and had no Twist anymore (sure hope it stays this way ;-) )

but don't Forget to use it with your 69 valkyre or so... but seriously, it will take a 'couple' of jumps before you can jump the suit safe... on Phoenix Fly Website it says: 'We recommend a MINIMUM of 250 wingsuit jumps before trying the Vampire'

Looking Forward to this Tunnel! :)

My first jump was not planned at all. I got my first big paycheck and still had 800 € left to spend so I figured on a Saturday night at about 2 am I want to do something one-time-only with my Money! After searching for some fun activities I ended up with a Budget of 200 € for this one time only Thing and ended up on a page where there was a tandemskydive for 199 € (so right in the Budget!) After thinking a Long time about it I ordered the jump 2 minutes later and set a date in 3 weeks. After that I pretty much didn't think about the jump until one day before the jump and had to look up where I had to go the next morning. At the DZ I had no clue what I was going to do, got my instructions and had to wait a couple of hours cause of bad weather... (was complety cloudy) In the plane I was thinking what the heck am I doing here?! and then we jumped and it was incredible! I knew it was not a one time Thing for sure! Well after that I was on adrenaline for a few days and ended up doing 4 more Tandem jumps, just because I had worked on 400 € a month and couldn't afford the AFF. After my 5th Tandem a skydiver came up to me and told me that I was no longer allowed to tandem there and that he wants to see me in the next aff. (This was in the winter time) A few month later he wrote me on fb that there is an AFF starting next month so I signed up for it and since then I've been jumping

001 - 013 240sqft Navigator 0,7 014 - 038 220sqft Navigator 0,8 039 - 041 190sqft Cayenne Light 0,9 042 - 047 170sqft Cayenne Light 1,0 048 - 080 170sqft Sabre2 1,0 081 - 182 150sqft Sabre2 1,1 183 - now (~360) 135sqft Sabre2 1,3 was already thinking about going down to a 120sqft Sabre 2 but I am flying my wingsuit now so I prefer a bit bigger chute

my wingload is 1.34 on the 135 sabre2

So I have been jumping for more than 150 jumps now recording Formation Groups, started with wingsuiting last year and using my cameraequipment helmet (dslr and Video) on wingsuitjumps. I have been jumping a 135 Sabre2 since two years now and never had any Problems at all. I love the soft openings of the Sabre 2 :)

I am recording most of my freel Videos with the Sony HDR-AZ1. It's small, light, great Videos and you can buy it with the remote, so you can actually see if it's filming or not Now it got quite cheaper the last few month so it should fit you Budget but it's "just" an actioncam witout zoom and an wide angle, so you shouldn't be miles away from the other canopies! On the 25th anniversary of Cypres I saw the Tigers Freefall Parachute Display Team of the british Army, they used - if I recall it right - a GoPro 4 for their recordings.

I have been to quite a few dropzones in Germany and in other Countrys and if I could choose from any, I'd probably would stick to Skydive Saulgau. The Staff is very friendly and professional, the plane is a fast Cessna Caravan and the landing area is almost to big ;-) I am jumping here now for 3 years and I enjoy every Weekend that I spend there.

When I send a customer's unit in for a scheduled service in the USA and they inform me that it needs to go to Germany and will take twice as long as it should, I would appreciate if they would tell me why. So that I can pass the information along to their customer. Instead they say nothing at all. And just leave the customer to wonder if their unit had a flaw, if it was randomly pulled for extra test for statistics, if they were too busy in Ohio and had extra capacity in Germany. Nothing. No information at all. just the usual "don't worry little skydiver, we will take care of you" shit. Airtec does not communicate anything at all to anyone ever. So, look that up for me please. I won't even start on the the recall they had to do that they refused to call a recall. I am also glad that someone is taking on the challenge of producing a wingsuit specific AAD. I wish them good luck in the project, it is a difficult task. No one here is talking bad about the product. The product is fine. I do think they should refrain from announcing a product that they do not actually have though. The only part of the company that does communicate is the marketing department. They love to brag and to put down the competition in their advertising. They remind me more and more of that other German company. Volkswagen. Pretty good product, but the marketing is less than straightforward. Well as I don't know what time you mean with "take twice as long as it should", how long should it usually take and how long does it take? I personally would ask the place you send it to in the US, why it has to go to Germany and not ask Airtec. Maybe they can answer you quicker, as you are in the same timezone.. If they can't answer why then I would ask the Germans. I never had Problems with airtec, maybe because they aren't far away from my place and in the same Country... But that's all not really part of the Topic in General! You said that they would keep a big secret on how they work, not on the time they need for the check. "The product is fine. I do think they should refrain from announcing a product that they do not actually have though." Is not true, I have seen the Wingsuit Cypres at the 25th anniversary Boogie of Cypres. There are many testjumps already done. So they already have the product, just not yet on the market. Believe it or not, apple and Samsung already have their new product too, but not on the market yet. Google "iphone 7" for example and you will find many articles and announcements of apple for their product even so there are no deep technical informations about it and they don't have it on the market yet. as soon as the product is available you will get all the technical Information you ever want. It's with pretty much all products that way, because they always have minor changes before releasing the full product.

okay, different question: do you know everything about your audible device? your Altimeter? and with the other AADs, are there any Wingsuit reliable AADs planned or announcend of Virgil? or other companies? I haven't heard of anything yet but if they did please update me :) I am happy that they are working on a wingsuit cypres, it's a good step forward! I think it's the wrong thing to talk bad about the product which isn't available yet and no one forces anyone to buy it. So if you (not just you but everyone who reads this) says it's trash or not worth buying because you don't know anything yet, please just wait until it is released... and back to the Argument, that Airtec is keeping the secrets tightly: Just tell me what questions you have and I will look it up. If you can find anything that's not on the Internet (worth searching for ;-) ) than I would deeply appreciate These questions, just for all to think about it but not to just say that there are secrets when there aren't...

I tried to understand your arguments but to be honest, I had a hard time doing this... What are the informations you are missing from Airtec? I am quite sure you should be able to find it through the mighty friend Google, or wait, maybe it's to industrial for you, then you may have luck through yahoo or bing or whatever... do you know every little Detail about your Airbags in your car? Or every little Detail about your helmet for motorcycles? but to be fair, I would like to hear the missing informations you have about cypres! Maybe I can help you find them or maybe I can't and I could reconsider my cypres unit. By the way, neither Apple nor Samsung tell every technical Detail as soon as they announce a new phone and how it works...