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have anyone here tried tracking in a vertical windtunnel before?? if so, how?.....putting the nose in the window and angle your body??

I've dreamed of a tunnel that can be rotated up to 45 degrees or so, then you could 'teather' to the 'ground' and get your fly on
Someone, somewhere, is working on a solution I'm sure. Until then, I'll practice off the tall towers
Later
Blair

I was thinking of something like that today... If a hurricane would blast winds of 100 mph or so and I was getting in track position, would I gain altitude???


Add: We don't have those up in montreal, so I can't try it out on my own

you may gain altitude if your bodyweight is like 100pound or so..

Having one end of your body (head) anchored against the wall will only work if you can maintain one glideslope. if you change the glideslope at all you'll probably end up head down in the net before you can react.

There is a video of a guy in a tunnel in a wing suit on SDM dot com.

With only 90 minutes in the tunnel I
am definitely no expert, but I really
can't see how a straight track could
be practiced in such a small space.

The whole point of max tracking is to
minimize descent while maximing your
forward movement....in a vertical wind
tunnel you'd run into a wall a second or
so after assuming the position.

If you were in one of those huge military
jobbers then maybe you could track for a
moment...but the operator would have to
lower the air speed as you did it because
the extra surface area would produce more
drag and make you rise.

Maybe a tunnel rat can chime in

ohh..i just skimmed the DZ.com, and didn`t notice they have a own windtunnel forum before you mentioned "tunnelrat".. maybe the moderator could move this thread to this forum?

While learning to skydive I practiced tracking in the tunnel. The instructor held my leg while I practiced forward movement. I don't think max tracking would correlate very well though.

I did.

it would of cource have to be a wind tunnel that can change the direction of the airflow from vertical to 45 degrees or so when the person starts tracking.

sounds like an expensive project..

Well, their must be at least one basejumper who is multimillionaire???

i hope this guy can chime in