Hypothetical:
Suppose you are launching poised from the face of a building (not a corner). The building is verticle. You dont have to pull high to make a good landing area. No wind.
How low will you take your slider?
MB
Hypothetical:
Suppose you are launching poised from the face of a building (not a corner). The building is verticle. You dont have to pull high to make a good landing area. No wind.
How low will you take your slider?
MB
...vertical as in sheer?...do you mean how low as far as delay?...I'm not so sure I understand the question...plz clarify...
I guess the question is better stated: How high does the building (or sheer cliff) have to be for you put the slider on?
Everyone has their own limits. I was just curious. I was thinking in the 550 600 foot range.
MB
No wind? perfect landing area? Good stable launch? 486 ft, dude. 2 second delay, no micro reefing, 42 inch pilot chute. Oh, yes. and some balls too.
except the part where you jumped over water
bob was talking about a building
no slider for 2 seconds jump
Hi Bob:
The lowest building I have launched in exactly those circumstances (standing launch, slider, etc) was around 600 ft.
It's the tall, black, glass building that headquarters a major financial institution in a city just to your north.
Hypothetically, if you were talking about that building, and you did want to do it, you probably ought to give me a call.
--Tom Aiello
tbaiello@ucdavis.edu
dear MB, in my humble mind i think that unless your doing more than 3 seconds delay, don't even bother with a slider they give worse performance for on heading openings than does no slider,
see ya
BEEV:x
You need to be getting a 4+ second delay to go slider up. If you do not go at least 4 seconds, you will not have enough airspeed to actually force the slider down.
So, if you do a 3 second delay, and you have a 180, you will be pretty close to the building (maybe only 15'). Then tie that with the fact that you loose about 1-3 seconds for inflation. You loose any chance to correct the problem before impact.
Even people at the Petronas (1,200') went slider up and hit the building.
A building is the most advanced object in most cases. Slider up building jumps are VERY advanced.
Get real experience before you try something above your abilities.
That better be a very big building!
after 500 BASE-Jumps, I would rather take a solid 3 sec delay slider down, than a 4 sec slider up on anything less than 800'.
I think Yuri may say this. People who went slider off at petronas were just asking for it. Why not use more of the 1200 feet, and get a little farther away before deploying. I'm (Thomas) not saying take a wingsuit off it, but at least a 5-7 sec would be better off, and farther from the buliding. Longer delays==farther from object. I think I heard this somewhere before????
Anyways, why not go slider up off petronas? So inexperienced that you can only handle throw and go's???? Go ahead Robin, insert your ""orginization" piece here.
Take it lower, and get better results. Um........I've seen DW take slider off Perrine, and get pretty good openings. Course, that;s with two to three flips, maybe with twists. More delay=better slider openings.
Peace,
Thomas
i'd jump it with my oversize mesh up, but not the factory mesh.
if you can't get a rigger to build you a slider out of that funky mesh with the 6X12mm holes, you're probably better off doing without on a solid object of this height.
I do not think I would jump Petronas without a slider because it is underhung. I never said to do such a thing.
But, if you want to talk about the 500' building mentioned in this thread, I think it is stupid. You will not be able to take a 4 or 5 second delay. I would be very supprised if I am wrong.
Perine is 485 and you have very little time to get oriented slider up. If you are on a building, there are soo many things to look out for. cars, power lines, people etc.......
I personally would consider taking a wingsuit off petronas because I have 100+ BASE wingsuit jumps.
re:............hit the building"
What irresponsiblel fu*king twit was in charge?
in the previous post, I meant slider up at Perrine. yeah, not slider off. when I said slider off perrine, I was saying like "take a slider, from the perrine" ahhh whatever, just thought i'd straighten it out a bit
Thomas:-) :-) :-)
save it Hyde :'(
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