Splat!

Uh, cool but not for me!
 
Maybe we can talk Tom-D into taking it up! :D
 
I saw the thread title and thought it was the name of a new restaurant....:eek:
 
It looks like about the most fun you can have with your clothes on, but the margins are just way too thin. If you sneeze, or a bug hits your nose and you flinch...
 
Wing suiting is actually way safer than commercial airline flight...the most dangerous thing is the ride up before they jump out! :)
 
Until you get an itch on your nose while flying....
 
CC268 said:
Wing suiting is actually way safer than commercial airline flight...the most dangerous thing is the ride up before they jump out! :)
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Im fairly sure I have more skydives than you so, Im not sure where you got THAT statistic. Nor how you would compare the two. Miles per incident? Time between incident?

Skydiving itself is statistically pretty safe. 15 - 20 fatalities per millions of jumps per year worldwide. And most of those fatalities are caused by pilot error. Very few actual parachute malfunction induced fatalities. However when you get into individual disciplines within skydiving (freeflying, wingsuiting, CReW) the fatalities per jump goes up. When you get into the less safe disciplines (BASE, proximity flying) the fatalities per jumps increases even more due to less participants vs more fatalities. You cant really compare airline stats to extreme sport stats.

That said, how did those guys not snag their BALLS on some of those buildings!!?? :eek:
 
JCranford said:
Im fairly sure I have more skydives than you so, Im not sure where you got THAT statistic. Nor how you would compare the two. Miles per incident? Time between incident?

Skydiving itself is statistically pretty safe. 15 - 20 fatalities per millions of jumps per year worldwide. And most of those fatalities are caused by pilot error. Very few actual parachute malfunction induced fatalities. However when you get into individual disciplines within skydiving (freeflying, wingsuiting, CReW) the fatalities per jump goes up. When you get into the less safe disciplines (BASE, proximity flying) the fatalities per jumps increases even more due to less participants vs more fatalities. You cant really compare airline stats to extreme sport stats.

That said, how did those guys not snag their BALLS on some of those buildings!!?? :eek:
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Lolllll I was trolling dude
 
Tom D does all the major maintenance on those wing suits I think
 
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I skydived a number of times years ago and would like to do it again but ... nope ... will not do that.
 
I was shoved out of a C-130 enough times to be qualified and stay current.
 
I've never skydived but I've thought about it...seems incredibly scary though...even more so when your chute doesn't open
 
Anyone who tries to throw me out of an airplane that's still flying is coming with me whether they're wearing a chute or not. :devil:
 
I show that video to my friends and relatives when they tell me they wish I'd stop flying ultralights. I tell them that they're right and that I'm thinking about taking up wingsuit flying instead.

I also wonder if they could have pulled that off in any city in America without getting shot down.

Rich
 
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