The Dream of leading a ws flock in a canopy.

I have been talking to Jarno former member of the TopGun team, about leading a formation in a canopy. We tried it in Castellon when we had our first TopGun training tour over Christmas 2 years ago. That time we sucked big time I was flying a Velocity 103 and Jarno was flying the blade prototype. But with the suit technology from back then it was not possible. We tried it out again this year with the new Blade and a Velocity 90 and now we got much closer.

 

 Costyn van Dongen and Jarno exit slightly after me, and fly their wingsuit's down to the canopy. Costyn sadly misjudged the approach (accidently thinking the canopy was flying the other way), but managed to get some nice shots on Jarno's approach (trailing smoke). The flyby in this video is real speed (no slowmo). There was a vertical speed difference of around 15 mph between the two. The wingsuit flaring down to 31 mph at the point of the canopy pass, the canopy doing a steady 19 mph.

I know Jeb and luigi have done it already but in a vx39 that's not accessible to others than luigi.

We  want to do it with a canopy that's accessible to all experienced jumpers and the skill of good wingsuit pilots. As soon as. I get my new canopy from PD I will get together with Jarno again and try it out with today's skills and equipment. Hopefully then we will be able to fly side by side.

Safari trip before leaving South Africa

  Yesterday I went to a safari park a little north of Pretoria. We went early so we could see the animals before it got to hot and the wild animals went sleeping for the day. It was a easy trip from Pretoria and the price was 140 ran that's about 75 DKR for 3 persons 10 euro or 12 $.

we only drove 10 min before the first 3 rhinos was standing next to the road. we went to the center of the park and got some breakfast and after  that we just drove around the park there was both Crocodiles Hippos elephants zebras you name it the only animal we didn't meet was THE King he was hiding in the bush waiting for the spring buck to run by.

  

New country New Lounge

Just landed in London LHR  2 hrs late so I am now leaving 9:40 instead of 6:35 But Again Thanks BA for excellent service in the Lounge's. It looks cold outside about 30 degree C colder than it was yesterday in South Africa..

Ummm BA lounge and Club World

Just arrived in the airport got checked in through the SA security witch is like going through a open gate. But I guess that's the way it is down here.

I was invited to the new BA lounge when I was upgraded to club World again. Here there is free food, full bar, the waiters almost carrying you to your chair, so that's what money is all about. Hmm..  the plane is delayed out of JHB so I don't know if I am going to reach the plane in Heathrow  but I guess I am just going to run like a MTF to reach the plane.. I have meet a lot of the competitors from the meet here in the airport and I can actually sit here in the BA Lounge and see them all walk by. Once again Umm.

Final results

WPC competitors meeting

 

 

After the comp there was a competitors meeting, the jury wanted to know if the current accuracy setup should be changed so the ties in the top of the comp would be more spread.

One of the ideas was making  5 water gates that give you 100 points on the water then there is a zero zone (z z) where zone 5 is today and to keep all your points from the water you need to land in that z z . The further you land from the z z you loose more of your water points. You just need to touch the  z z to get the points you don't need to stay there, but if you run out of the main course you will get a zero.

The idea of skipping the entry gate was also there and that idea I actually think we will use in Denmark next year this way the intermediate jumpers can still fly the water gates and take some points on the water without getting wet..

This was the most discussed tropic of the meeting there was also something about making more spread on the speed points. But I didn't really get the idea of the way they wanted to Calculate the points.

After these tropics I think we all got thirsty because all the jumpers was suddenly in the bar.

its over finished slut finito and yes FUCK I got 3 zeros as usual

missed the gate on the distance run so I am expecting a lower overall score than I hoped for but the result will follow  maybe first tomorrow....shit fuck

But it was a GREAT competition and I had a lot of fun and I think that's the most important part...