Friday, November 7, 2008

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Perris day 6 finally good weather.

The weather now looks very promising today was about 20 g and tomorrow should be 25 sweet..

I got 11 jumps today and my turn have become much better but still need a little more snappy endings to get more lift out of the canopy. The wind picked up at midday so I went downwind on the grass. so I got a few swoops covering the whole grass area here in Perris 480 ft sweet...

I also had the last modifications done on my wingsuit by Kenneth and attached the PD and L & B patches so no one  can be in any doubt  what i love to fly...

Benny, Mette and Christian "Tytte" arrived at 16:00 they were pretty tired when they arrived so we went for a beer in bombshelter just to get them a tad more tired. after that we went to Hanas sushi again to get some food. and it looked like they were pretty hungry to with the amount of rolls they consumed

As the big surprise a 4th guest arrived late last night. Peter called me yesterday telling that he decided to go here anyway. and showed up about 21:30 but both Kenneth and Bundy went home so they will get the surprise later..... 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Perris day 5

hmm not much to tell bad weather only 4 jumps in high wind

Tomorrow should be perfect weather finally

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Perris day 4

its a bit slow at the DZ at the moment both due to bad weather and not that many people. But I managed to be on every load yesterday and got 9 jumps so I guess I am on a totally of 25 jumps here now. I was hoping for that number to be between 35 to 40 so its not going exactly as planned.

I am having a little trouble getting my new canopy to do what I want it to do... I Guess my longest swoop on the pond is about 250 ft and that is far from my best. But I talked to Bundy and Kenneth about the end of my turn and that's what I will be working on  tomorrow.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Perris day 3

Sunday was a bit tame. The day started  with a bit of a overcast and high wind for swooping. but about 10:00 it cleared up a bit and we made 3 jumps in a row then we got on another weather hold and that was the story for the rest of the day. only 6 jumps. But it gave me time to make some modifications on my wingsuit and the last jump was a jump with Kenneth where made a few docks and was testing each others speed out. in the end of the jump I maxed  the suit out to see if it had gotten better and there was a big improvement from last time. the coolest thing about the jump was seeing Kenneth after I deployed. He is perfect build for wingsuiting  and he almost kept level with me until he deployed he's New Storm canopy from PD. That was a smooooth opening by the way.

After that we went to bombshelter for a beer and decided to go for sushi at Hanas sushi. They just make the best sushi ..

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Perris Day 2

Just a little update from yesterday: I got my luggage no prob. Kenneth picked me up at the Airport end we wend to Hollywood boulevard to get something to eat. We heard that there was a Halloween parade in west Hollywood and went there. WOW what a parade there was Thousands of people dressed out in more or Less clothes what a sight...DSC00297

we got to Kenneth's place pretty late so it was straight to bed..

I got up early and went to the DZ with Kenneth got a big breakfast and then off we go... just got a new canopy Velo 90 so i used the day getting it dialed in. the first 3-4 jumps was ok but not at all fast enough. after that it started to get better but the wind was pretty weird today so it was hard setting it up. But that's good training. Bundy Thinks I need to make my snap a little later so that's what I am going to practice for tomorrow. Got 12 jumps today so i am pretty satisfied...

And just a few pic from first Class in a 747-400DSC00280  DSC00287

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USA: Perris, Elsinore and South Africa: Pretoria trip Day 1

My trip started today at 01:30 where my cab picked me up to the train station. After that a 4 hrs trip from Århus to Copenhagen slept all the way. In the airport I was quiet exited for my trip because I am traveling on staff tickets again but this time on staff duty so unless the plane is overbooked I am secure on getting on the plane. I was also pretty stoked when I selected seats yesterday getting Club Europe tickets from CPH to LHR and Club World from LHR to LAX perfect.... but if that sounded good it became better. Going through the ticket desk a red light flashed when they scanned my ticket "Sire I have upgraded you to FIRST CLASS" so the perfect trip just got better. First class is pretty good king  size chair that easily changes to a bed. You get to choose from a menu card with 3 different dishes. Personally service you want it you got it drink, fruit, chocolate you just name it. Now sitting in the plane with 2 hrs to go I only have one concern and that's my luggage. It got checked through all the way from CPH to LAX and last time it was 4 days late. I really hope that don't happen here. I was supposed to travel with Peter Kallehave but he is pretty stressed at job. So he is not coming to USA. I had the feeling he was going to back out but got the sms confirming it when I flew from CPH. Bad for him. He could use the time off. So right now I don't know how to get from LAX to Perris Peter was supposed to get a rental car we could split, I sms ed Kenneth if he could pick me up at the Airport but cant get a answer before I land....    that's  it for now might get a update on that later when I hit Perris.