Here’s something I recently managed to get to a publishable state: https://github.com/xird/wsp-laneguide Before we go to “What is it, and why should I care?”, we need some background. There are people who, for reasons known only to themselves, regularly throw themselves at the planet from any aircraft where they manage to open the door during… Continue reading WSP Laneguide – A GPS navigation device for wingsuit pilots
Category: Skydiving
A method for neatly stowing the lines on a skydiving parachute
Looking at the way some freshly licenced (and some older) jumpers struggle with making neat line stows, I figured I’d document the method I’ve been using to stow my lines. Here goes: A method for neatly stowing lines These instructions are for stowing a bight of lines on the right-hand side of the bag; for… Continue reading A method for neatly stowing the lines on a skydiving parachute
Blue skies, black death
Today, 8 of my fellow Finnish skydivers lost their lives in a plane crash at Jämi, Finland. Instead of publishing a blog post I’d prepared about “What if no-one died of old age”(!), I’ve changed the colour scheme of the blog to reflect my feelings.
FS-4 way intermediate draw tool
I got sick of manually coming up with random dives at creeper practice, so I wrote this: http://fs.xird.fi. The (very small) script returns random intermediate dives by pulling formations out of the pool until it runs out of formations. Almost like a competition draw.