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May 31st, 2006, 12:24 PM
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| Resident Skydiver  Joined: Jan 15th, 2005 Last Online: October 28th, 2008 Location: Québec, Canada Posts: 1,612
Car: 03 stick shift PT Cruiser GT & 1994 Mazda Miata. Rep Power: 19  |  Over 100mph ground speed in freefall. I am getting better at flying my wingsuit and the new technologies available allow to review flight data in a very nice way.  Google Earth users: click here. Believe me, when you get out of the airlplane at 13,500 ft and more than a mile and a half away horizontally, the DZ looks really small and far away to get back to without an engine or an open parachute !   Comments ? 
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May 31st, 2006, 12:57 PM
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| Mantastic!  Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: 03:03 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 33 Posts: 10,249
Car: 2006 MY07 Astra SRi Turbo Rep Power: 74  | Very very cool use of Google Earth - what do the blue and red sections on the freefall represent?
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May 31st, 2006, 01:02 PM
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 Joined: Dec 3rd, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: London, Ontario, Canada Age: 27 Posts: 4,361
Car: 2004 GP GTP CompG LFS Status:  Rep Power: 24 | Insane Roman. Insane There, that's my comment.
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May 31st, 2006, 01:21 PM
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| old porsches do run!  Joined: Jun 9th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Age: 26 Posts: 2,640
Car: Porsche 944 LFS Status:  Rep Power: 31  | Wow, really cool Same question as fbc, colors mean something? |
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May 31st, 2006, 02:15 PM
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| Unloved and lacking a title  Joined: Jun 13th, 2005 Last Online: 02:06 AM Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 23 Posts: 5,313
Car: 1997 VW Golf MkIII CL, Giant OCR 3 Rep Power: 54 |   Awesome.That is all.
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May 31st, 2006, 03:26 PM
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| .dk beauty  Joined: Mar 19th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Denmark Age: 28 Posts: 4,152
Car: Volvo V40 LFS Status:  Rep Power: 47 | Cool 8)
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May 31st, 2006, 03:53 PM
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Car: 1997 Yamaha Seca II, 1976 Honda CB550F Rep Power: 122  | That's really sweet! 
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May 31st, 2006, 04:22 PM
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| "bangle for president"  Joined: Jan 14th, 2004 Last Online: November 19th, 2008 Location: belgium!! Age: 24 Posts: 6,069
Car: yamaha banshee (and an opel astra from work) Rep Power: 28 | available for non-google-earth-users?
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May 31st, 2006, 05:03 PM
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| old porsches do run! Joined: Jun 9th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Age: 26 Posts: 2,640
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May 31st, 2006, 06:38 PM
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Car: '04 Toyota Sienna, crippled people like vans.... Rep Power: 51  | You're a bit nutty.....that's all I have to say about that.....
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May 31st, 2006, 08:16 PM
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 Joined: Jul 1st, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 23 Posts: 2,334
Car: R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec, Ford Territory TS Rep Power: 19 | wow that data plot is truly impressive. i hadn't used google earth until now, but i must say, that's bloody amazing.
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May 31st, 2006, 10:30 PM
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| Resident Skydiver Joined: Jan 15th, 2005 Last Online: October 28th, 2008 Location: Québec, Canada Posts: 1,612
Car: 03 stick shift PT Cruiser GT & 1994 Mazda Miata. Rep Power: 19 | Thanks for the comments. Already knew I wasn't completely normal...  Quote:
With the wingsuit, distance traveled is calculated from 15 sec after exit and for the next 90 seconds or until 3,333ft/1000 meters of altitude, whichever comes first. So the blue is the flight not part of the "race" and the red is the actual data used for the "race". And the green part is the canopy ride to the ground.  *90 seconds ... I thought it was 105 ... What if I had a slightly sharper angle of attack ? I'd glide a little faster, covering more ground and still not run out of time to ... * Scuse me, I got a plane to catch ! Be back later !
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June 1st, 2006, 02:49 AM
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| Resident Skydiver Joined: Jan 15th, 2005 Last Online: October 28th, 2008 Location: Québec, Canada Posts: 1,612
Car: 03 stick shift PT Cruiser GT & 1994 Mazda Miata. Rep Power: 19 | Quote:
  Well that didn't happen...
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June 1st, 2006, 09:32 AM
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| old porsches do run! Joined: Jun 9th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Finland Age: 26 Posts: 2,640
Car: Porsche 944 LFS Status: Rep Power: 31 | Quote:
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June 2nd, 2006, 10:52 PM
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| Lazy Head Dude  Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Age: 24 Posts: 20,964
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 233 | That's SWEET!
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June 2nd, 2006, 11:31 PM
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| Joined: Aug 8th, 2005 Last Online: November 8th, 2008 Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Posts: 291
Car: Volvo S60 Rep Power: 0  | Cool. How do you put that in GEarth? Any additional SW required? What's the input anyway ... GPS coordinates?
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June 2nd, 2006, 11:40 PM
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| Resident Skydiver Joined: Jan 15th, 2005 Last Online: October 28th, 2008 Location: Québec, Canada Posts: 1,612
Car: 03 stick shift PT Cruiser GT & 1994 Mazda Miata. Rep Power: 19 | ^Yup, my Garmin Foretrex 201 GPS records the track and I transfer the data to my computer via the Tracking Derby agent software (free) and they turn the data into a GEarth file for me only. But I chose to share it with you.
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