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I've read previously that you can move up to 12 miles in any direction while falling if you aim for it. Over most of America this gives you ample opportunity to
by mattmaroon 17y ago
I've read previously that you can move up to 12 miles in any direction while falling if you aim for it. Over most of America this gives you ample opportunity to find a tree.
I've also read that you should come down in a sitting position on top of a tree. Haystacks seem like they would be too hard to spot until it's too late. A grain silo might be recognizable and have a thin enough roof to be helpful.
I suppose you could aim for the suburbs and hope someone has one of those obnoxiously large trampolines.
- vanschelven 17y ago12 miles in any direction from 22,000 feet (the moment you reach breathable air) seems unlikely to me. That would imply 2.9 feet horizontal movement for every vertical foot. Edit: typo in the calculation fixed. (29 => 2.9)
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoI think your math is wrong...12 miles is 63,360 feet, or 2.88 horizontal feet for every vertical foot. So yeah, it still seems impossible.
- mattmaroon 17y agoYeah it does. But I read it on the internet so it must be true.
- rlpb 17y ago> I've read previously that you can move up to 12 miles in any direction while falling if you aim for it. Skydiver here. You could manage a mile or two; no more. But both this and changing your body position is quite a bit harder than you might think. You have to push against the air in quite a counter-intuitive manner. A beginner will just flail about and probably start spinning; especially without any tuition.
- ShabbyDoo 17y agoYeah. Somebody who's really good at "tracking" (flying horizontally) can fall at about a 45 degree angle. So, from a couple miles up, ... Another thing not mentioned is that terminal velocity decreases as the air gets more dense. So, if you fall four miles, you can't track four miles -- the 45 degree thing is based on dense air.