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Here's a few first week impressions on our new beasty...

Sam - Video
Dario - Video
Valery - Video Video Video

Can you give us a run down of the new features?

Are there Finns?

Biggest new feature...doesn't want to come down...
A bit more techmunulogical explanation about turbolation can be found here

Finns and liquor store sold seperately..

Fuck the Finns! (Sorry, somebody had to!)

Haha you beat me to it!

This suit is going to change the world of wingsuit basejumping to what was not possible before. It looks to have some starts and glide.

That start from Rozov around the corner on Brento looked unreal!

.... Start looks within 5% +/- of most of the big suits on the start. Really nice starts for sure, but a revolution might be going a bit too far. Short starts are coming down to how close you want the terrain to be at the end of your start arc. 2 second starts are a very real thing in al the mondo mattress suit class. Very nice suit for sure!

 

Who said anything about revolutionary? You can not use this word in any sense because we are limited to the length/strength of our arms/legs. It will become revolutionary when you strap a hang glider on you back, oh wait then it will be a hangladier; again not revolutionary.


Enjoy, and don't forget to vote Trump.

Bonko.

Jarno, you hurt squirrel's boys copying them the "WAOAW AMAZING RAD THE BEST SO STOKED..." advertising style

That trench down and to the left tho. Vallery's Da Vinci has me wanting to go back to Arco

kinda scares me about those two lines intersecting blindly with the regular left line from brento. no radios?

I doubt it will be an issue. Valery has opened a lot of exits around Brento, Garda and the rest of the Sarca valley and almost none of them are ever jumped by anyone else.

How does it compare to Venom Power?

Perhaps someone should install one of those blind-corner mirrors like you see on city streets or mountain roads.

So far in base its showing to be quite a step up. Agility wise its a nice intermediate between the VP and Vampire SU. Quite nimble.

Im doing some (boring:) PPC performance runs skydiving in the Alpine 1st week of May to get a good comparison to the numbers I was getting in the VP, and see where the suit ranks.

so whats the verdict?

The previous posts seem to indicate that the alpine is superior to the venom power (my current base weapon) in all areas?

Starts, speed, glide and agility?

Just did 5 boring data mining jumps with a beep beep GPS thingy.

The first jump in the Alpine showed a big increase in glide compared to the Venom (even taking into account wind conditions) with quite a lot more ease, and no real flare yet. Ill play more with that aspect later.
Even when playing a lot with body position, bested my best ever time and glide in the Venom Power by quite some margin. Ill be doing some of the PPC competition stuff over the next months, which should also give a good comparison to other suits out there.

Ill take the suit to Norway July for some flights of the mountains as well. So should have more video and data popping up over the next 1 to 2 months.

That's some impressive data.
I always take skydiving results with a grain of salt due to tailwinds but... that's impressive.

Sorry for my shitty english (probably better than your french anyway ;) )
So, after 20 jumps with an Alpine (lend by a friend), ultra light cameroon, fins, this is my review.
I have ~700 ws base. My actual suit is a Sukhoï. I m not sponsorized but i flew mostly Phoenix Fly, by personnal choice.

Suit quality is like usually, for Vampires, close to perfect.The ultra light weight cameroon looks at first (and sound) fragile but in fact is way more resistant. Of course it s not the best choice for skydivers and people who land on their ass each time but really good for people who hike and jumps in big mountains. It s REALLY light (and so small in the stashbag). You still have the choice with "regular" light weight cameroon or parapak. The suit had all the storage pocket (in deflector, legs, chest). Good for moutain stuff.
"On the ground", the differences with the Sukhoï are the arms a little higher, more cells on the hips/ arms and longer deflector.
"In the air", the start are better and easier than SU. Flying with my friends (in Aura and Ridge) i was always, easily above. The biggest difference is not in the first 2/3 seconds but after. Glide and mostly speed are way better. By a quite big margin.The suit looks like she stay at same level, not going down. In flight you re definitly in a Vampire. For sure it fell bigger and a little less agile than the SU but switching from one to the other was without any troubles. The added surface on the upper body make it easier to fly than the SU. No problem for the pulling neither. It's a user friendly suit (with appropriate experience of course). Agility is really good, closer than a Vrace/Venom Power than other big glide suit. If you actually have one of these it ll be a perfect and valuable upgrade.
At my first flight with it from via ferrata (not even really good conditions) i flew through the waterfall (at the proper altitude not under the hollow). I was really impress by the glide (and my friends there too). I did some flight in Walenstadt too and it confirmed the excellent glide (and agility for some proxy line). You fly above the left grass slope easily and can go to the "high barn" and other new playground.
Without a lot of experience with this suit (and no so skilled pilot :p) i managed to do as good (or better) line than "sponsored" or "high talented athletes" in other brand "similar" suit. So i can't imagine when skilled people will post video with it...
In conclusion, the suit is easy to fly, easy to get amazing performance in: start, glide, speed. The agility is really great for a big suit. Pull is easy. The only troubles i had was to slow it down to match with my friends in multi ways (never arch so much since a while).
Personnaly i will keep my Sukhoï (because i already have it) but for most of the people, the Alpine will be a better choice, as i already said, easier, better start and glide, still fast and agile.
And for now, probably just the best choice on the market.

I was at the Brento regular exit and yep, if I was ready about 2 minutes earlier that could've been interesting... Funny and weird to watch someone flying 'up' Brento.