Unplanned wingsuit fly-by. I was pissed. Remember, this is gopro footage... it was closer IRL.

Not that I feel I should have to, as I'm not in the wrong here, but let me clarify a few things.

First of all, Skydive Arizona is not my home dz. I wouldn't feel comfortable if some random jumper came up to me at my home dz and started bantering on and off about how stupid and idiotic somebody else's actions were. I know that Skydive Arizona takes these kinds of incidents fairly serious, they're big on canopy safety and flying a good predictable pattern, so I immediately went to the ground crew and let them know what happened. They seemed happy to handle it, and from word of mouth know that they do their jobs well.

Second of all... I happen to know this occurred just under 2000 ft. After I go through my routine of stowing my slider, I check my altimeter to see what altitude I'm at, just in case I have a malfunction with my brakes before I un-stow them. I always want to know how much time I've got in the event that something goes wrong with how I've stowed my brakes (cause you know, sometimes mistakes happen). I'd already been under canopy for about 40 seconds after pulling at a little under 3500, (I know, cause I look at the video, and I this was the 2nd day I was at Arizona for this trip, and I didn't start upping my pull altitude till the last day). With the snivel on a Sabre 2 135 and my wingloading, it's more than feasible that I made 2000ish feet by then.

But regardless of the altitude at which you pulled (because that's not really the point anyway), you're right, I should have come and spoken to you directly. But given that you claim you've got these skills and all this experience, I seriously have to question your decision making skills. Regardless of how experienced you are, you made the decision to do a fly by on an unsuspecting jumper, someone you didn't brief beforehand... someone you don't even know. What makes you think that actions like this are okay? I'm all for keeping the sport safe, and maybe this particularly instance didn't end in an incident or injury, but it's shitty, on-the-fly decisions like this where people get hurt.

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