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Last night off the local A, from 320', first wire set is at 170', so I planned a 2 second delay to open below the first wire, as usual. I, as usual took about 1.5 but still opened below the wire...not by much. DEAD 180, rear-risered just past the tower to the other side, deployed my brakes and set it down in the short grass.
I knew it was only a matter of time, but that's why we plan our jumps the way we do. We used to do this tower from the same side routinely from 400', same delay...last night that would've put me on the wires. Thanks to 515 for the guidance, keep thinking up those theories and we'll keep testing them.

Must have been your body position So your 1st 180 on jump #85??? You made it a little further than I did, mine was on jump #63 then my second was on #65 off the same cliff in Switzerland. Funny thing is that 515 was there on mine too I'm beginning to see a pattern Hmmmm.

So how come you didn't practice turning it around and landing the same direction you faced when you jumped? Just curious.
Seriously... congrats on "dealing" with your 1st 180. slider down even!! I haven't had one of them yet, all of my 180's have been slider up. Hopefully I'll never find out what they are like

Nice one,
Jason
PS-Did jump #420 the other night!

Nice work! I had my first 180 off a 315ft guyed A! It gives some interesting visuals!

Be Safe always

The winds were coming straight down the back wire, so we wer're jumping into a pretty stout crosswind, I thought I'd have the usual 30 left into the wind so I kinda 45'd the windline and jumped into the left half of the 'quadrant'(what do you call those things since there only 3?), so basically I had a complete 180 that put me facing almost directly downwind, I looked up and down for the red light immediately, knew I was underneath the first wire, and opted for a slight correction with the left rear, and landed on the other side, a complete turnaround had me turning over top of the staircase up to the platform where the vader is..and basically at the time it seemed like a much longer landind, and I figured I was about 150' when I made that decision. I've hooked it in out there before and just figured to take the 'easy' way out.
BUT, hindsight is 20/20 right, I was immediately dissapointed that I didn't just get it all the way around, but I'm taking my big arse to the potatoe state this month, and I plan on trying a bunch of that.
But yea, mostly it was 515's fault, he was showing me all that kewl video of y'alls recent antics from higher altitudes, while I was trying to pack....uuummm and all the feed back he could offer was, yea dude, your PC just took off to the right, you could'a taken another second or so to get up some more air speed...from 320' yea right
Hope to see you soon, congrats on #420, hope you went from the right 'altitude'.
C-ya
Blair

His body position was fine, definitly pilot chute induced 180 from crosswind, the fact that it was vented might have been a factor in some way. My opening was straight and i used a non-vented pilot chute. My delay was longer also, especially after seeing his jump. Hoping a little more vertical speed to offset the crosswind affect. Off-headings into the wind are the norm in short freefalls into down the wire winds. By staging your opening under the wire, you can merely slide slip the tower and land straight into the wind. A 180 correction would have to be followed by another 90 back into the wind for landing, with very little altitude to work with. I think i would have done the same thing. Had this jump been made from the 4ooft platform as we used to do years ago, i think we would have had a wire strike. Interesting to watch it was... Speaking of 180's two trips to the new tower resulted in 2- 180's for you, must be the body position. lol Congrats on 420, of course that means i'm closer to you,, later..base515