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| Author: | Rafael [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Wingsuit Proximity Flying |
Similar to the Need for Speed Wingsuit vids posted previously. Unfortunately, in order wingsuit jump at all, USPA requires 200 solo jumps 18 months or 500 to go without an instructor. Just completing the accelerated free fall course is in the neighborhood of $1500 to get licensed. 200 jumps would be well over $5000 without considering equipment costs. Unfortunately, the only way to do this economically is to be an instructor or something of that nature. |
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| Author: | Noggel [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 12:23 pm ] |
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That shot from 2:15 to 2:47 in the first video is just... gah. Crazy, crazy people! |
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| Author: | Corolinth [ Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:04 pm ] |
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I'm not sure I'd want to be going that fast right next to a mountain. That's looking like a bad time waiting to happen. |
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| Author: | Emer [ Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:38 am ] |
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I've jumped with guys with wingsuits and they are just crazy. Granted around here there aren't any mountains or structures like that but the possible complications in openings make it not very desirable. |
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| Author: | Arathain Kelvar [ Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:53 pm ] |
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I can see how it wouldn't be quite as dangerous as it looks, as once you get really comfortable with it you can probably control it pretty well, or at least predict it. Flying along a cliff can give you an "out" (dive left and away). That said, it's a slight mitigation of an INSANELY dangerous looking passtime. And I'm not sure I'd ever have the balls to fly low over the saddle between two outcroppings (there goes the "out"). F that noise. |
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| Author: | Talya [ Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:07 pm ] |
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Wingsuits can slow your rate of descent to about 50mph. This compares to a normal desent rate of about 120mph. (You can reach 200MPH if you aim for the ground and minimize drag.) These guys are falling a LOT slower than a typical skydiver. Of course, 50mph into a rock still splatters you all over the place, and that slower descent comes at a cost of great speed in other directions. The average forward speed of a diver in a wingsuit is about 100 mph, so if you hit that cliff face, you're splattered even more flat than if you simply forget to pull open your chute. |
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