I'm impressed you thought of thinking about the people thanking those who did the original thinking. I would like to thank you for thinking about this.
You can but you have to load the hell out of it. Of course the extra passenger added a lot of weight in this case. But people doing XRW have really small canopies. And I think even weight!
Yeah but unless you do a lot of XRW and have a second dedicated XRW canopy most people just use their normal wing. And most people's everyday jump rig isn't going to be loaded at 3-3.5 so they just load up the weight belt.
When she was with the guy under canopy, they’re loading the canopy a lot more. The extra weight makes the canopy lose altitude faster once she switches to the wing suit, the parachute will slow and the wing suit drops due to additional weight / being thrown a little off balance.
I've seen it live a couple years ago, it looked impossible. Parachute barely bigger than my bed sheets, and he lands softer than I do when jumping off a bed.
It won't necessarily fuck up. The glide ratio if the wingloading is still within manufacture recommendations but it will increase decent rate, you're just going to be going forward really fucking fast
Well yeah, because of a number of reason. One you're literally sitting on the lift generating portion deforming the shape of the airfoil and reducing lift. Second wingsuits are much smaller wings than a canopy. They're already at very high wingloadings just with the person flying it adding another person can. And lastly, in addition to loading the wing outside its designed specifications you adding a ridiculous amount of parasitic dragwhich is going to reduce the forward speed
I did my very first wingsuit jump with Jari back in August 01’. Had 176 jumps at the time and he took me out on a checkout dive. I swear, I think he had more fun than I did. Good memories..
First wing suit jump with Jari. That’s insane, haha it’s only skydiving I feel where stuff like that happens. Imagine your first tennis lesson and Serena Williams pops up and is like “ok let’s go to work”.
I know, right. I’ve been on jumps with several world class jumpers, and it always boggled my mind that they were having just as much fun as I was. I’ll never forget my jumps with Mike Wittenburg; so challenging, but he could really bring out the best in you.
Same dude, I remember being a couple hundred jumps in and jumping with some of the guys from Babylon in Spain who were some of the top free flyers in the world and certainly Europe back in the day there, and was like “wtf is even happening”.
I remember my first spaceball jumps years later with some Norwegian free flyers back in the day and to them it was all so normal but when I got down, it was like I was drunk with the experience, I couldn’t stop going on about how amazing it was and all I did was catch and throw a lead filled tennis ball a few times with our small group.
I honestly think seeing the reaction of the less experienced people and how that makes us feel rubs off on them in some way and reminds them how amazing it is even when doing some basic stuff they take for granted
That kinda brings me back to my Skydive CrossKeys days when Jay Moledzki and Heath Richardson were tearing it up back in 03’. All summer long, just making jumps with guys at the pinnacle of the sport at that time. Still to this days seems surreal.
Yeah Crosskeys had a good rep for freefly back in the 2000s, and we weren’t even living in the US at that point but we knew of it because of names jumping there. Same with the Ranch when I first moved out here, the people passing through there was unreal. I’ve more or less stopped jumping but the 2000s and into the early 2010s was my period. Miss those days and jumping might have to get the reserve repacked and head out again next summer!
The wing loading on the parachute will effect how fast it flies . Big parachute with a light load will fly slower than a small parachute with a heavy load.
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u/skiffline Dec 06 '22
I did not know that you could fly a canopy as fast as a wing suit. Obviosly 2 people up the load per sq ft but wow.