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I will call bullshit. There is no way it is safer to hug terrain than to jump at altitude from an airplane.
by kobeya 9y ago
I will call bullshit. There is no way it is safer to hug terrain than to jump at altitude from an airplane.
- KGIII 9y agoThey said safer than BASE jumping, though they didn't capitalize it. BASE jumping is jumping off stuff, not out of stuff. It is an acronym. Building Antenna Span Earth, I think.
- kobeya 9y agoI'm aware of what BASE means. Grandparent post was comparing BASE jumping to wingsuit skydiving out of airplanes and helicopters. Parent said that BASE jumping off of mountains could be safer. I called bullshit.
- wingerlang 9y agoSeems like he compared BASE jumping with BASE wingsuiting.
- manarth 9y ago[Base Wingsuiting] is safer than regular base jumping provided you don't try to strafe tree and hilltops and cliffsides Safer because a wingsuit can allow you to track much further away from the cliff you've just jumped off, which means that a typical deployment issue - where the parachute opens off-heading, therefore inducing a turn - doesn't immediately steer you back into that cliff. A wingsuit can give you freer air for deployment, which increases the margin for error, but wingsuit BASE seems to be aimed at proximity flying.