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47971, RE: Hello 2GNT....I am still alive
Posted by Star Turbo Talon, Dec-31-69 06:00 PM
No Dale, that video is us, I am the one with the full face helmet and tinted visor (its cool in flight becuase you cant see my face). Its a compilation of our footage from last year. To date there arent any public wingsuit teams. Corporate teams there is the Red Bull Air Force team and there is a Skydive Dubai XRW Team. XRW is where you mix Canopy and Wingsuit flying....very new concept. I have jumped with Miles Daisher of the Red Bull team.....one of the coolest people I can say that I know.

The Team we have formed is an experimental Public competition team. There is one other team forming but everythign is kinda kept quiet right now. Not that its a secret, all of us just want to make sure we can accomplish things before we claim to be a Demo/competition team.

Flying a wingsuit is very different than falling out of the sky like a meat rocket. Your actually flying forward at 100-130MPH. I have been able to slow my vertical decent down as slow as 40MPH but that is my max. At that point I can anly sustain flight for 2-2.5 minutes before I have issues with muscle fatigue. Like all benefits there are downsides. Wingsuits have a potential to go bad very easily and when they do.....its REAL FUCKING BAD.

Your internal clock gets all fucked up since you get used to flying for 2 minutes before deployment. If i jump without a wingsuit.....its like I am getting out of the plane and pulling right away.

Wingsuits are very restrictive, I cant raise my hands above my shoulders until I unzip the arms....if i open and the chute isnt right......there isnt much I can do but go for the reserve. Opening malfunctions are extremely easy becuase you are still moving forward when you deploy.

Going unstable is very scary. I have had a couple bad flights where I almost puked spinning around in circles. Upon deployment I could task puke in my throat. There arent make emergency procedures when you lose control of it.....All you can do is collapse the arms and tail and if that dont work, Ball up and throw the canopy out. Then cut away the mess you create and deploy the reserve. Thats not a great concept to me!

The other issue I am having is that when in flight i dont want to deploy. It becomes a game to see how low you can take it. Your body has a natural instinct to survive and no matter how much you want to go further, your body doesnt. I have numerous flights where I have taken it down to 1500 feet. Its one hell of a rush. One guy I fly with kind of freaked out on me because he was under canopy watching me go lower and lower; i havent done it much since then.
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