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Cheaper solution with the same functionality:
1) Buy a bluetooth gps receiver for $140 (less than the cost of a flysight)
2) Install BASEline Flight Computer app for free and connect it to the bluetooth GPS
There's an app called Boogie that has most of this features. It would be great if you could develop the app smart watch friendly. I'd rather jump with my smart watch than with my phone. Also, a lot of phones don't have barometers but most smart watches do.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.boogie.boogie
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I have a friend here on Long Island that paints helmets. If you can see these facebook albums, here are some examples.
If you want, just contact him on facebook or I can get you his number.
Thanks, I'm thinking about adding it. Since the Split (the FPV camera I bought, linked above) automatically records on startup all I have to do is mount a contact switch to my helmet. Then when I put my visor up under canopy it'll automatically turn off.
I've been working on a 3D printable chest mounted LED altimeter that is very similar to this. It was kinda born out of my frustration with being able to quickly read an altimeter while in a full track position. It's certainly still a work in progress, but I find the LEDs are very quick to read at a quick glance vs. reading numbers.
Go ahead and make your own: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:631637
:)
When he says a bit of investment, he means you’ll need long range transmitter equipment Like this as well as some engineering for whatever equipment you’ll be using.
Especially considering the is no tail on the wings, there is nothing stopping him from just flipping end over end.
Check out this - http://gizmodo.com/5895235/cgi-experts-say-flying-bird-man-is-fake
Having a quick browse through the creators videos it just screams fake to me. The filming style (shitty camera shaking a lot), the dialogue seems like bad acting, and there are so many bits of the test flights etc that don't look quite right or have clear signs of being CG.
And that's ignoring the evidence like their "model" on the computer being in an animation program rather than an engineering program (and having a toolbar with "cloth simulation" open on the screen). Oh and the magically changing texture of the wings http://imgur.com/PlEI7 when the camera man and all people near him had to bizarrely run away from the wings before the flight conveniently cutting away to look at the ground for a moment.
My favorite part of skydiving was the peacefulness of the canopy ride, so paragliding seemed like a natural option. It's been almost a year since I took up paragliding, and I've just gotten to the point where I'm able to consistently make long flights (>1 hour) if the conditions are good. I'm from Atlanta, not one of the better regions for paragliding, so a lot of the first year has been spent being frustrated with the weather.
As to experiences, the first time I was able to ride a thermal up to the clouds is one of the greatest experiences of my life. For the most part it is a very peaceful experience. You basically get to decide the level of excitement by the conditions you decide to fly in, the decisions you make in the air, and the type of glider you use. You're a lot more sensitive to turbulence with a paraglider than a skydiving canopy, but you get to start enjoy getting tossed around a bit because it's usually an indication of thermal activity. I've had a few partial canopy collapses in turbulent conditions. They're a little frightening at first, but the beginner gliders actually require no input from the pilot to re-inflate.
Probably the best short video I've seen that gives a sense of paragliding, and here is a great documentary if you have a little more time.
There are tons of mobile apps that simulate altimeter. After losing my altitude awareness on tandem, I practiced with these apps. You set your exit altitude, fall rate, and let it rip.
Android (one I used): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ravenwerks.divebuddy&hl=en
iOS (no experience with this one): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skydive-altimeter/id463197450?mt=8
Edit: Obviously not for a tunnel. But it worked for me at home, on a yoga mat. Practice arch, leg position, and alti check. In a tunnel, I'd say, practice flying. Doing alti checks is kind of a waste of tunnel time.
I bought one of these and it works great to hang it in a closet.
I would also look at getting yourself a gear bag. I once had my rig not in use for several years stored in my gear bag and it was clean and had no issues. Keeps dust out and protects from the environment.
I get that same rush every time I watch people exit an aircraft on youtube!
Sometimes I watch videos and lose track of time.
Check out this one from the last boogie - https://vimeo.com/97224167
...and if you're interested to see what an AFP progression looks like here's almost all of my levels: https://vimeo.com/album/2770214/ (it's a variation of AFF with more levels and more training to get your license... it costs more than AFF, but you wind up being a better flyer once you're licensed)
My recommendation is to buy a standard hard-shell suitcase that barely/precisely fits your rig. (Here is a very random example on Amazon - link)
Couple of reasons: - skydiving gear bags indicate the expensive equipment inside and apparently are more likely to be stolen. - skydiving bags are needlessly expensive - hard-shell suitcase can be more durable and even water resistant - a PIN code lock on your suitcase makes it easier to leave it at the DZ and forget it without wondering if someone will mess with your gear - the wheels and pull handle makes it very comfy to carry around
Email, phone, anything "electronic." They have mail fraud for the rest.
This book is enlightening: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent-ebook/dp/B00505UZ4G
Don't piss the feds off, they'll make you a felon any time they want.
Basically anything in here would get you banned today.
Looks like you can get it for free on Amazon with a MovieSphere trial (then cancel it): https://www.amazon.com/Cutaway-Tom-Berenger/dp/B07QZ1M4CZ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=C1QH5PRBIDLN&keywords=cutaway&qid=1654459874&sprefix=cutaway%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-3
Same here.
I think that one has the CO2 cartridges in there and I take those out to avoid getting hassled by the airline. A decent swimmer should still have time to inflate by blowing into the tube. But lets get back to step 1: don't land in the water.
For everyone with the CR2325 batteries, these are the ones you want. Don't buy any other brand.
Also, they last an incredibly long amount of time. Even as a full time tandem instructor using mine every day, I'm not sure I had to replace them more than maybe once a year, and even on the low battery level it would last for MONTHS. Y'all gotta learn to take care of your stuff and not procrastinate so much.
Get scuba diver defogger. I personally use this stuff and it is impossible for my visor to fog no matter how hard I try. It lasts a while too.
Doesn't seem like a windy day (this is from an airport 100 miles away so who knows how accurate it is).
I learned something from all this:
I now understand why flying related CG in movies looks like shit. "good CG" hahaha
Fantastic. My one suggestion would be to think about how having a camera on your head may change your cutaway sequence - and mentally practice how you respond to different situations. If you have an entanglement with that, make sure you cutaway your helmet first. Here's how not to do it: https://vimeo.com/37998866 (This incident was a ring sight entanglement, not a camera, but the ring sight was almost exactly where you have your GoPro.)
I only have 30 jumps now, but that didn't seem too bad at all compared to some of the videos of my class mates. This was the video of me on that same level.
The skydiving embroidery was hand made by my friend. (11hours of work) http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-Custom-Embroidery-JUMPER-NEEDS-KIDNEY-TRANSPLANT-NR-/320749156995?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aae23ba83#ht_4834wt_872
We sacrifice everything else :P
I used to buy the new shiny thing every time something it came out (Seriously, I would kill someone for a Moto360 right now) and had a couple of subscriptions to netflix and such. I've recently cut the latter along with my VPN subscription and stopped doing the former a little while ago and setup a budget (The UK Equivalent of what I use would be Money Dashboard)
Since the start of august the only tech I bought are a battery for my phone, a set of headphones because my old ones died and a Surface pro for my uni work. I haven't even opened steam in 2 months
I currently don't have a car which is murder considering my DZ (which is the closest one) is 35km away into farming country, I'm doing part time uni, part time job work, part time traineeship and looking at taking up video editing at the DZ every other weekend to give the one lone editor a break... and I still probably wont be able to afford second hand rig (3,000 pounds directly in exchange) by the new year. Which will kinda be killing me slowly with gear rental :(
i'm not sure what you mean by "stalled" but i may understand it. let's say it this way : if there was a suitable way of controlling all limbs individually i would use it. but there is not (at least not available for the masses) so i had to make some trade offs. if you know rc-airplanes and mixed controls... this is kind of how the input works. i have several animations on the model which animate and blend regarding to speed rotation etc. the flight dynamics itself can be compared with that of a airplane (relative rigid not dynamic)
Cool! Haven´t been there myself (yet!). But would really like to go there some time. Found the video through some user posting at the fanpage of GoPro. Probhably the guy who filmed/jumped. :-)
Above All Else is an excellent read. Not necessarily about AFF, but there are a lot of great principles Dan talks about in the book that apply to not just skydiving, but life in general.
It's always hard to gauge these questions because cold is a little different depending where you are and how well you handle it. Whatever is good on the ground though tends to work in the air. The exception is the plane ride up if you sit next to the door and it has a gap. This area of the plane just gets really cold from the cool air flowing in. The initial door opening will also be a little chilly but once you jump then you tend to forget about the cold and you are quickly back to near ground temperatures by the time you open. If you are still worried then err on the side of caution with an extra base layer or two that you can take off as it warms up during the day.
For gloves, again this depends more on your tolerance to the cold. If your hands are comfortable on the ground then they will probably be ok in the air because it is only for a short time. If they are cold on the ground then or you get cold really easily then you can get a thinner glove at the gear store or on chuting star. There are also some thin bmx/mountain bike gloves that work well. If you need a little extra, latex gloves will work well under your other gloves and some people use those chemical hand warmer packs.
I've done close to 30 night jumps. I've got a world record in night jumps. Here's what I've learned:
I hate glowsticks for night jumps. Glowsticks are better than nothing, but not by much. In the US you must have a light visible for 3 statute miles (it does not need to be a strobe, I don't like strobes in fact). An glow sticks do not satisfy that. They're barely visible in freefall, and useless under canopy.
I've rarely ever seen a glow stick under canopy.
Get a flashing red bike light and put it on your chest strap. That will shine forward, so if they see a flashing red light they'll know a canopy is oncoming.
Something like this works well:
Get another bicycle style "fairy" light, a string of LEDs powered by a couple of AA batteries. They're super visible. You can wrap them around your leg strap and turn them on just on exit.
Blue, white, green, work well. Red and orange don't work as well.
You can literally see me leave the plane when I wear those.
This is an incredibly interesting topic! In the simplest of terms, it does not work in the same way because, with half brakes, you are initiating the turn at a slower airspeed. This slower initial airspeed, combined with maintaining the slower airspeed during the turn by maintaining input on both toggles, will result in less dive and less altitude loss compared to a toggle input from hands up.
If you like technical canopy flight information, I highly suggest you pick up a copy of Brian Germain’s The Parachute and It’s Pilot.
Literally just did this last weekend!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSrVzONAHs4/?utm_medium=share_sheet
These worked great: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YQK9OWK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_M74T0K7EKNEQBHD0KAEZ
There are a few guys at my DZ who fly these cheap NASA costume jumpsuits from Amazon, about $60 bucks... which is good if you want something a little baggy to slow you down some.
That's about all they're good for... and they only fly them when they're going to need the extra fabric to fly with a heavier newbie, or to slow down some while flying camera for a heavy tandem pairing.
Someone else mentioned the fabric of the suit and how it impacts fall rate, but there's more to it than that. Your suit is how you interact with the air around you. It's very similar to shoes and gloves for other sports. Most sports have specialty apparel for where you interact with your environment.
Glove example: People that use their hands (rock climbing, racquet sports, boxing, etc.) will not just wear gloves, but gloves that are specialized for the task.
Footwear example: Compare track spikes to football cleats, or a ballet shoe. They're all built differently because they need to interact with their environment differently.
The same is true of our skydiving apparel. Big boy who wants to jump in relative work formations? Your best bet is a high end suit with lots of wind-proof fabric and some swoop cords. Oversized booties, fat grips with pockets, swoop cords, etc. At 180 pounds, I have one of those and I can fly with students as low as 105, and I'm guessing even lighter.
I also have a mostly spandex suit and 12 pounds of lead for when the really big guys come out to jump.
Tracking suit, free fly, speed, wingsuit, they're all designed differently for the different disciplines. Having the right apparel makes a big difference in what you're able to do during your jump.
You do not need a smaller canopy or higher WL to learn high performance and swooping techniques. Some would encourage you to learn those techniques on a lower WL.
Read Brian Germain’s book, The Parachute and It’s Pilot
Also, This Checklist will help you understand if you are able to pilot your current canopy to it’s fullest extent.
So take what I say with a grain of salt because I only have two jumps in but this book was very helpful to me for climbing. Might be worth a look. https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Warriors-Way-Training-Climbers/dp/0974011215
Check out the SJ4000 on Ebay. Decent quality GoPro knockoff for about 20 bucks. Some of them come with accessories for attachment, or you can get a set on Amazon for cheap.
I use this app no idea if it's on iOS. It really only gets used for CRW or Canopy Course logistics during the 3 minutes infront of the whiteboard marking up the list
Has anyone tried this with a diaper genie refill?
https://www.amazon.com/Playtex-Diaper-Genie-Refill-Ideal/dp/B009TJ3J60
It is basically a long plastic tube.
It would needs some duct tape reinforcing.
Go to your local safety store and buy a pair of all the disposables to figure out your favorite.
I like these ones for hearing protection. There are several variations and tips that you can use. The nice thing is it really muffles the airplane noise but on the ground it's still easy to talk to people.
I haven't seen 3D printed versions, though I'm sure they exist. I've wanted to do the same, but with a different twist that conforms to my helmet better. I'd do it with just a sheet of plastic. Imagine draping spandex or some stretchy material over your camera, it would look kind of like that.
- Buy a sheet of ABS plastic.
- Cover my helmet and camera with some painters tape (to keep it from getting scuffed).
- Heat up the sheet of plastic with a heat gun/hair dryer.
- Pull it down over my camera and helmet like this but without using a vacuum former, just pulling it down to get that nice convex shape. While the plastic is hot I can push the plastic down so it lays flat over the buttons/lens area.
- Once it cools we now we have a sheet of rigid plastic that drapes down over the camera all the way to the camera without any concave areas. Now just cut off some sections from the plastic so the lens/buttons aren't covered.
- (Optional?) Maybe fill the plastic with some insulating foam to make it more rigid, need to experiment here. Also I still need to figure out how I can mount/unmount the camera with this cover on.
- Adhere the cover to the helmet so it doesn't shift around from the wind.
Oh, I have no idea, that was all in jest. I've not used Burble. I just assumed that was possible.
I see their website isn't really complete yet. Likely you'll be able to export eventually.
I've used the Skydiving Logbook app, which you can export from but I believe that app is totally local to your phone. No cloud backup or multiple device update.
Now can I lecture you about logging your jumps? :D
It does happen to me. The reason is, Dekunu uses resistive touch screen that requires a soft membrane on top to register touches. They say it's to help people who wear gloves. I say it's to reduce costs. They could've went with matte capacitive touchscreen, but those are more expensive. I am hoping they will provide an upgrade one day.
I am thinking about ordering something like this and cut it to the size, to see if I can make it less shiny. Or invest into AON altimeter. I do happen to like cloud features though...
Idk which phone you have but stuff like this is super strong and zips so the phone won’t fall out. It’s meant for the gym but it should work on jumps as well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRT9ZW3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Zx-sCbY23YTG4
It sounds like you’re asking for some regular stuff. I know a lot of guys predominantly military and vets love flying in bdu or multicam pants. You can usually find them pretty cheap and it’s not a thing people only think those people can wear.
This suit was brought up by quite a few tunnel instructors I know who wanted a cheaper alternative to a suit. I’ve heard they stand up pretty well. So it’s a free fly suit option.
I talked to the organizer. He had a specific lube they used for this that was water based and left little to no marks on the rigs. It's a "bovine husbandry lubricant" (fortunately, it's for cows not from cows).
Found it: https://www.amazon.com/Durvet-Purpose-Lubricant-Gallon-GALLON/dp/B000HHLYPG/
That's the lube he said he used.
BTW, when you look up "bovine lube" on Amazon, weird shit comes up.
Here's a video from Simon Wade, DPRE/Master Rigger on the "Rigger Role"
https://youtu.be/jIi2gczQ1YY?t=11m50s
There's several methods, that's just one. It works.
Try to find a thick plastic bag. Someone mentioned a trash bag. That'll work if no other option is around, but it won't protect from a lot of potential damage.
You can find gigantic zip lock bags on Amazon.
Something like this perhaps? https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-XL-Big-Bag-Bags/dp/B00CAOG198/ (I'm not sure of the size)
SSG Gloves for horseback riding are awesome. They are made to be weather resistant and are very thin/close fitting. The fingers and palms are made to grip the reigns well. And unlike everything else for horse back riding , they are fairly inexpensive. http://www.amazon.com/SSG-Weather-Gloves-Ladies-Universal/dp/B0002CENKE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459441688&sr=8-1&keywords=ssg+riding+gloves
They have men's as well
A $30 duffel bag from Academy does the job just as well. You can wear the duffel as a backpack. When you get where you are going, you can throw the rest of your jumping stuff in the bag and have a good gearbag for going jumping.
For $90 you can buy a nice backpack your rig will fit tightly in and actually have something you can use for multiple uses.
It's a great idea and looks slick, but unnecessary. I bought a large Jansport backpack over 10 years ago and am still using it. Fits a medium (143/150) rig with helmet and suit (open faced wedged over shoulder). Have put a 190/193 rig in there with nothing else.
I'd buy a raincover or airporter and zip tie or strap up my legs before I bought a rig sleeve. I know many jumpers who have done this.
The most pro thing I have ever seen-check your rig in a cooler-the type you can lock. Wrap a strap around it. When you get where you are going, you've got a beer cooler. You just have to take a towel to dry it out for the flight back.
Here's what I use:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JR4CIO/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_2LzwwbBDK73B3
I apply it once a month or so after it starts getting cold and have had zero fog problems since I started doing so.
Not sure if you have a Sports Authority up in Canada, but here's the item i got from my local SA outlet: http://www.amazon.com/McDavid-475T-B-Groin-Strap/dp/B001LEYOT2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1432670302&sr=8-3&keywords=mcdavid+groin
Hey guys, i have an app in the Android store that is crazy accurate called AltiWatch https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thamel.altiwatch&hl=en#details-reviews, was built for the nixon mission which has a direct atmosphere port and a fast bosch BMP sensor. i have a pretty nice LPF algorithm that smooths the amount of data while still being super fast in freefall.
was thinking of porting to iOS would you guys be interested in testing it? might go get an Apple watch 3 this weekend and play with it. it has the lower level BMP sensor but at over 150hZ should be plenty fast sample rate.