Coming to a ski resort near you Summer 2016

[vaskidmark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esFmUaz55VA#t=188

With a sign: "You have to be this stupid to ride."

I've left a perfectly good aircraft before it had returned to earth, but at least I still had some breath left after screaming like a little girl till I was back on the ground.  I might be too frozen with fear/panic/exhiliration to draw enough breaths to make it all the way to the end of that.

stay safe.

[Brad Johnson]

Wasn't a pro wingsuiter recently rendered inert when he kinda misjudged where the mountain was?

Brad

[onions!]

I can't imagine the stones it'd take to fly thru that hole.
WOW!

[fifth_column]

Looks like fantastic fun to me!

[AJ Dual]

Wasn't a pro paraglider recently rendered inert when he kinda misjudged where the mountain was?

Brad

I know a wingsuit guy splattered/bisected himself on the superstructure of a bridge a few years back.

And one of the most famous guys/original pioneers of the sport "landed" on a mountainside without a chute deployment, and busted up his legs badly, but he's back at it again. He was jumping with the guy who hit the bridge when that happened.

[Hawkmoon]

I can't imagine the stones it'd take to fly thru that hole.
WOW!

I was thinking the same thing. Just watching the video left me feeling queasy.

[RevDisk]

Some of the footage wasn't that bad at all. Plenty of clearance to pull the cord. Others... Not so much.

Whatever floats your boat, but some of those folks WILL die because the variables ensure it.  Eating a bird or large insect would be enough to disrupt your flight, and put you into the dirt because you could twitch. I wish them luck, and hope the nanny state folks don't get it banned.

If I had say, inoperable cancer, I'd give it a go. Otherwise, not.

[Sergeant Bob]

I can't imagine the stones it'd take to fly thru that hole.
WOW!

That *expletive deleted*it is BadA$$!

[MechAg94]

Adrenaline junkies find new junk.

Looks like it would be cool, but the margin for error is very small and you had better know what you are doing.  Not to mention that it looked like some of those guys had a pre-arranged route that was thoroughly scouted out ahead of time.  I can see some idiots would not understand that.  At a couple of those points in the video, it appeared that pulling the chute would be deadly.

[dogmush]

Adrenaline junkies find new junk.

Looks like it would be cool, but the margin for error is very small and you had better know what you are doing.  Not to mention that it looked like some of those guys had a pre-arranged route that was thoroughly scouted out ahead of time.  I can see some idiots would not understand that.  At a couple of those points in the video, it appeared that pulling the chute would be deadly.

This.  Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.  THose guys probably spent weeks or months planning those couple minute flights.  Yes, the margin for error is low but they eliminate all the variables they can.

[Viking]

As someone who can't balance on a pair of skis even on perfectly horizontal ground, and does even worse as soon as it goes even the slightest downhill, this looks a million times safer than skiing.

[Fly320s]

Just nucking futs!

Although that is about as close to flying as a human can get.

[vaskidmark]

Just nucking futs!

Although that is about as close to flying as a human can get.

For all values of "Flying is just falling forward faster than you are falling down."

Which pretty much covers "flying".

stay safe.

[BobR]

Sometimes it all works out and looks good........

Other times it doesn't work so well and it makes you cringe!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikR2w5Vg8aA

I feel cheated. By the time they started doing this type of stuff and flipping motorcycles in motocross I was too old to consider it. If I were a mere 40 years younger I would be all over this type of stuff. But all I ever got to do was skydive and hang glide. :(

bob

[brimic]

That goes on the bucket list as the last item.

[Hawkmoon]

Just nucking futs!

Although that is about as close to flying as a human can get.

That thought occurred to me, and I've always harbored a wish to be able to fly. But "flying" to me includes an ability to go UP when desired, whereas these wing suits just turn you into a human glider with no upward component that I could see.

I wonder what the sink rate is for a wing suit flyer?

[BobR]

I am going with a glide ratio of ~2:1(2 fwd, 1 down), which is why you still need a really tall mountain or a flying machine to launch from.

bob

[French G.]

Other times it doesn't work so well and it makes you cringe!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikR2w5Vg8aA

bob

That was Jeb Corliss getting it wrong. I was most impressed by his higher functioning under extreme stress, after he hit he managed to regain attitude and "fly" to an area where he could pull his chute. Pulling after the hit would have just planted him in more rockpile. When interviewed he says he briefly considered just crashing and ending it all. That hit broke nearly everything in his pelvis and put him in a wheelchair for 6 months.


All the people in those videos have several thousand jumps logged and I doubt there is anything that is not pre-planned. Your glideslope of funny looking brick is pre-set so lots of scouting needs to be done to locate corresponding slope in the terrain.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Learning curve can go vertical fast