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there is several diff angles in the ABA vids of this jump.

also Tom has an angel (from the ground) on his site which I think he may have took
can't remember to link to his page though

Did a jump with a Skyflyer 1 from 1000ft ... really no point of doing it.

PerFlare

I dont wingsuit base, but exit practice? i guess if there is a tailwind its bad. i saw a freind get blown around pretty good on a 40mph tailwind with a GTI from 1750'. scary.

With a strong tailwind, it's pretty much like diving under the tail of a slow airplane, right? So, "flat & stable" exit won't work, it will cause extreme potato chipping and frantic attempts to regain the control. One should intentionally dive headdown... or do a gainer. What do you think?

gainers sound really scary. I have a about 20 tailgate airplane jumps, never done a gainer. I like floaters. (flying above the plane is COOL. probably would be a bad idea on a tower.

That sounds pretty scary. What a fucking IDIOT!
pope

 

yeah man, I never want to jump with that guy again.

A bunch of years ago I took Yuri out for his first wingsuit 'A'. Exit altitude was around 1800ft. It was blowing pretty hard and Yuri left a bit head high. The wind caught his wings and proceeded to flip him on his back Being the smooth character he is, Yuri just continued his gainer/barrel roll and jetted down the guy wire attachments. He took a good delay... if you were wondering. The 2nd was better though. I'll see if I can locate the video.
So if you plan on exiting in high winds I would go into a dive or just get comfortable doing the gainer. Also, make sure you have a decent place to launch from... climbing out through the crossbars on some 'A's can be a bitch even without a wingsuit.

Jason
Night #102

I heard the guy was a reaallllll nit-twit.......

 

Tracking suits are no problem. I would definatly take it slow and work your way up to an antenna flight with a wingsuit... a lot can go wrong

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Jason

Yo,
For me, around 1200' is as low as I want, I believe anything lower is not going to yield much WS flight performance..FOR ME. That's not to say I wouldn't huck from a grand with my Prodigy, I just don't expect much. There are pilots who can fly far from 1000', but I think they are are mostly Russian..err I mean American and Croation .
I have flights from 1200'-1950+' from A's and I just do a normal exit....for me.. Collapsed wings, launch out hard head high a little, slowly spread arms to balance, as my head comes down toward parallel with earth, I extend my legs and fly away. All of my WS A jumps are at night so I don't have any video, and all were with GTI. I think winds are an issue on the bigger suits, but if you stay collapsed long enough, I wouldn't worry about it. Getting a little vertical speed FIRST helps me with stable exits. Of course if you are going from something low, you may emphasize flying faster than falling..?
Anyways, only example I have of what I'm saying is from a cliff in mexico, check it here
http://baserigs.com/...video/docs/EGWS1.MPG
I learned alot on that flight.

And to echo what 570 said about climbing around on A's....well, he's seen me, its sketchey. I have this fear that the button from my bootie is going to catch in the grating on the platfrom as I launch, sending me into a cartwheeling ping ponging fall down the face of the steel
At least that's one scenario I've thought about while riding up. Climbing any ladder with your legwing stowed is a bitch cause you don't want to tear it on anything etc. But I have exited from both platforms and structure, obviously its easier to waddle to the edge, but I can get more altitude usually by climbing higher and exiting from the structure.
Lastly, its the best fun out there so enjoy
Later
Blair

Oooh, what a funny video it was! I'd love a copy if you can find it. From what i remember i ended up doing a more or less flat 360

Here's my serious advice: try to ignore the wind. I tumbled because all the way up i was thinking about the wind flipping me over, and my head followed a pre-programmed tumble. In reality the wind is not a big deal at all. 2nd exit an hour later went absolutely perfect - this time i knew the only problem was my own imagination Since then i did a bunch of WS exits in ridiculous tail and side wind without any issues. You are really heavy and quite hard to get blown around, so most of "wind on WS exit" issues are purely mental.

bsbd!

Yuri.

 

There's really only one Yuri... and thank god for that!!! Although I think most russians named yuri are kinda sketchy
Outrager is the real Yuri and has been jumping longer than all the other Yuri's put together! Actually I think the other Yuri's are the illegitimate love children of the real Yuri(416).

I'm pretty sure Yuri-base is the one you're thinking of that had the cliff strike. I can't remember his last name. Was Tom Dancs in the video doing a mother thereasa impersenation with the canopy? If so, it's the same Yuri. I met him in Twin after seeing his cliff strike video and BS'd with him about it.

 

on any antenna, the wind is your friend... (direction dependant obviously...)