Nothing to admire, seriously, no "precision" at all, including the broomed together statistics. Poor wobbly aiming and hoping for the best. This way no one gets old. Senseless waisted lives of rich bored kids. Sad. Peace! from Dresden / Germany
i've been a wingsuit pilot since 2014, probably made about 150 jumps by now. gotta be honest, there are two types of people in this biz: those who hang around and jump just a few times before giving up, which we can "go pro, then go home" because they just want pictures and video for social media.... and total adrenaline psychopaths who literally don't care whether they die. these are the same guys who are into big wave surfing, extreme skiing, BASE jumping, motorcycle racing, deep diving, and all the rest of that. they're typically turbocharged testosterone bros who are, quite honestly, pretty exhausting to be around for longer than 15 minutes. everything is a competition. you can't order a beer without one of them wanting to bet he can drink 3x as much as you. it gets tiring. me, i just wanted to fly through the clouds. i'm 44 now and i'm doing my final jump on my birthday, october 1st 2024, when i turn 45. it's been a great 10 years, i've soared like an eagle, free and alive and full of excitement...and terror, if i'm being honest. each flight is confronting death. though honestly, it gets a little easier as time goes by. but still, you need to always remain vigilant and careful. if you relax or get lazy for just ONE second, it can kill you--literally one second. i've lost a friend, i've known of a few other guys who got killed or seriously injured, and there were a few very close calls in my career...VERY close calls. i can't say i'm that different of a person now, it's not like i've stared death in the face and now i laugh at him, it's been amazing and special but i can't say i've really "learned" anything. but i regret absolutely nothing, and i wouldn't change one moment. PS - don't get into wingsuiting. just trust me. it's hard, it's expensive, you're sore as hell the next day, it's insanely dangerous, and tbh the community isn't all that fun to be around. it's your body, so do what you like, but take it from me....watching it on youtube is plenty good for most people. once you jump off that cliff, there's no going back. there's only down.
Motorcycle racing doesn't count with all the other lunacy. Maybe the TT race. But that's it. Tracks and equipment has improved. Marc Marquez crashes every other race and he's still kickin
@@raybod1775 Even hot spots on the ground below you can produce Density Altitude phenomena where you suddenly find yourself dropping at an increased rate.
@@Mrbfgray Jumping from a cliff is never going to be as safe as Jumping out of an airplane. Most people mix wingsiut flying with wingsiut basejumping but its not the same.
Grandpa was in a wing suit going with his friend down a mountain. He said that all the sudden his friend went up and down. His legs hit the ground and then he hit a tree. He says that he saw him literally explode. My grandpa and his friend didn't have a permit or anything like that. But they had been flying for YEARS
@@derekfolger8345 stop making up things. If that were truth. That case isn't know. Also, even in the worst wingsuit accidents people do not explode, and even if that were truth. The case would've been known but it isn't
Wingsuit isn't nearly enough adrenaline for me. I do high diving into a woodchipper. Before that, I would just pour gasoline on myself and set myself on fire and then dive into a pool of crocodiles and piranhas. That was less painful than the pool of acid I tried before that. Oh man! Good times!
Dude gives stats that aren't comparable. 1 in 600 wingsuit jumps result in fatalities. 1 in 147 car accidents result end in fatalities. wingsuit jumps do not equate to car accidents, but to how many car trips taken. almost EVERY wingsuit accident results in fatality!!! but most car accidents DO NOT result in fatality!!!
Replaying certain bits over and over again. I blocked this channel and highly recommend others to do the same, unless they don't mind watching the same clips over and over again. *WHAT A BIG WASTE OF TIME*
Actually I enjoyed watching it for 20 minutes and felt like 2 minutes to me, I watched it on the TV and laying down on a couch, I agree that sitting at a computer on smartphone would have felt too long, that is why I watch youtube on the TV and on the confort of a good couch
They are kind of like flying squirrels. I looked up flying squirrels and their membrane (wings) can catch the wind and get bigger almost like a parachute. Unfortunately, wing suits aren't quite that good.
It sounds like a lot of these wing suit flyers just jump and "wing it" without consulting or researching topographical maps and trajectory and telemetry charts day
Being an adrenaline junkie myself I can truly appreciate the appeal of this sport... I have zero issue with anyone doing crazy shit... you do you!!! BUT let's be perfectly clear here... they are NOT flying... they are directionally FALLING...
A railroad safety rule reads: "Always anticipate a train or on track vehicle on any track, in either direction, at all times and do not rely on your hearing."
I came close to flying a Cessna 180 for a skydiving club. A fellow pilot summed them up by saying only two things fall from the sky. Bird sh!t and damn fools.
@ 0:30 The legend you spoke about is Roberta Mancino. Yap. Female. Not Robert. She even have a makeup on her face for crying out loud. Italian and international model and a good base jumper. That aside, there were many worse wingsuit deaths in recent history than this 6 in a video. My favorite WS flyer was Alexander Polli. One of the best technical flyer in the world, and one of the first to push WS out of the comfort zone. Uli copied his stunts many times. He flew away also , may he rest in peace. I was ready to progress from a skydiving to WS, but watching almost all my favorite athletes going under one by one, my perspective changed over time. I went to speed flying instead. The golden balance between skydiving and a WS flying. Even in this discipline people loose their lives, but if you are smart and careful enough , you can have an amazing flying experience and walk away home with no injury. Also, you can do more stunts in flight and flights lasts longer ;) The critical errors in flight comes when you forget to be afraid. Think about it a bit longer. Everyone who gest a lot of experience and progress to the stage of a master in these kind of sports , stop being afraid. Then it is just a matter of time when will the sh1t hit the fan. Fear turns to bliss and awareness goes down. When you are dealing with seconds to react, that awareness is a primary thing for any pilot to have. I know from my own experience. I also have had near death experiences many times. I‚m still holding a touch of fear in mid flight and will be in bliss mode when I land ! :D I hope this post will not discourage anyone with their plans to fly , but quite the opposite. Flying is one of the best thing in life a man can experience, and anyone who dream of flying, I urge them to just GO and DO IT ! There are many forms of flying, not just WS. Find the one you like and learn it good before trying stunts. Kind regards to all ppl reading this and to all fellow flyers , I wish you a BLUE SKIES !
"If you are smart and careful enough, ... you can walk away home with no injury" Now i dont have any experience to be fair but from what i see and know about this topic, that statement is just bs because so many things can go wrong that it doesnt matter if you even make or dont make a mistake. Your equipment can fail, different air pressure and flow could make flight paths suddenly change, its just simply a risk that no amount of "smartness" can neutralize. Its like biking on public roads especially speeding on race bikes, it doesnt matter how good you are, its enough if your tire fails, if you hit an oil spot on the road, if another driver makes a mistake, YOU will die. And i think this topic here also falls into a comparable category You cant lie to yourself and just say that you will 100% be fine if you are smart enough Of course you do everything you can to stay alive, but lets be honest You have to accept death in a way before each jump and have to be somewhat prepared as your last one. And for yourself thats fine but if you have loved ones and kids waiting at home, im not so sure about it. Atleast i could not forgive my dad if he went doing something so dangerous for the egoistical reason to feel the "rush" but promising me to be back. Its always a risk you take
@@JvanSevenhovenDidn't do too bad considering he had no zips, velcro or nylon. Only use wax these days for hair removal, the closer you get to the sun the less effective it gets mind you but they still don't warn you not to use it above 20.000 feet.
"The human body is not designed to withstand impacts at 100 mph." I learn something new every day. This is useful. I shall avoid impacts at 100 mph. Q: What speed was the human body designed to withstand for a sudden impact? I mean, originally. Before modern bodies.
The guy who built the roof that the wingsuit flyer crash on, should use that accident as a way to promote the quality of his roofs: "My roofs are so durable, even a man free falling from 8,000 feet can't destroy it. So, if you live in an area where wingnuts like to do their thing and potentially free fall onto your roof, contact me for a free home estimate."
@jbarron I am surprised of the triviality, that a loved person who perished doing something they loved could be ridiculed in this fashion?? That's whats wrong with this fucked up world and the fact that video violence and games makes the act of violent deaths so normalised. Call me old fashioned. Jus sayin??
@@jmichaelbourke Blaming it on violent video games has nothing to do with these nuts doing this particular dangerous "sport". I grew playing video games like Mortal Kombat and I've NEVER felt the urge to hurt anyone like in the games - much less put on a wingsuit. These idiots knew the dangers, family and partners telling them NOT to do it and yet they went ahead and did it anyway. So yes, they deserve be ridiculed - whether you like it or not.
You asked if I would dare to take up wing suit flying after watching this video. Hell, I didn't want to take up wing suit flying before watching this video, and when I was younger I participated in downhill skiing racing and car racing.
Were you just as full of shit when you were younger as you are now? Because people who are involved in those sports don't call them what you did. Which goes to show that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. So basically, you feel like you have to lie to impress people you have never and probably will never meet. What a loser you are, really, just pathetic. Your downhill skiing racing(which no one ever called it) would be called just downhill or downhill skiing, if they were really into it they might say the type of run like the slalom, Giant slalom, superG, parallel or combined. But you are not going to hear them say to anyone "hey I participate in downhill skiing racing, hell, that's not even correct grammar, Same thing with auto racing, which could be called drag racing, which has numerous categories like top fuel, pro mod, super street, funny car and many more. Then there is street out law racing and they have several classes they run. Of course everyone know about circle track, there's also dirt track and the list goes on an on, I've been around it all my life, and well. I let's just say I've listened to music being played on a 6 track player in the family car on the way to the races. I can't think of a time when anyone came to me and said "hey I participate in car racing", it just doesn't happen partner. So next time before you go to tell a tall tale on the internet, better think about all the people out there that can call bullshit on ya, because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. and just to be clear, I aint saying that you didn't ski down a hill and race one of your buddies, or race one of them in a car, but you aint what you're trying to portray yourself as, so don't try that cop-out. You know what you are trying to insinuate, and you aint that.
- controlled flight into terrain in VFR conditions - failure to maintain physical separation looks to me that it's not necessarily the wingsuit, it's just bad airmanship.
I guess I didn’t understand the pilot’s…or rather, the guy flying the plane without a license…thinking of flying in the same direction as the jumpers on his way back to the airport. The flyers can easily glide as fast as the airplane. Plus, if the video’s accurate, the plane seemed like it was diving at a similar attitude (downward angle) as the flyers, as if he was intentionally trying to keep up with them, or he was expecting them to drop straight down as if they were free falling parachutists. If he was truly heading back to the airport, he should have first flown in the opposite direction for at least a minute or two, or at a 90 degree angle to the left or right - and maintained his altitude until they were close to, or on, the ground. I guess we don’t know all the details, and apparently the court decided the pilot had some merit, as it seemed to me like a pretty light sentence.
The "viewer discretion" parts should have been shown. Maybe that would discourage people from doing this. PS. If the risk is death... I'm not doing it!
@@MyKNOwMoretell me when you find someone who lives eternally. Then your ideas make sense. We all die. Some just do it doing something they love. Keep hiding in the basement. This is not for someone like you. So keep fingers in your pockets in the future too.
When I was 7, dad told me if you don't want a broken arm or leg from falling out of a tree, "just don't climb a tree". A man's got to know his limitations.
Whee do I sign up! My car is 1/150 chance of dying, wingsuiting just 1/600 chance. So it's 4x safer to fly than drive. I think I will fly everywhere. This is called "abuse of statistics" and leads to entirely untrue conclusions.
@@williamrogers. It really was gross misrepresentation. Once in a car crash, there is a 1 in 150 chance of death. People take hundreds or thousands of trips without ever crashing, so overall the odds of getting into your car tomorrow and dying, is maybe 1 in 100,000. To equate that with flysuit jumping was crazy. If you went for a jump tomorrow there is a 1 in 600 chance of dying!! That's terrible odds. That makes flysuit jumping about 2000 times more risky than driving a car. Not the nonsense that was presented in this video.
Thanks for getting there before me. The sentence might be accurate ("One in 147 accidents results in fatality") for car journeys, but this was not followed by "X in Y wingsuit accidents results in death or permanent disability". I would hazard a guess that a wingnutsuit accident usually leads to more than bruise or two.
@@peterwilson7532 Precisely. However, RUclipsrs regularly mispronounce words and make outlandish claims just to build their comments and interactions knowing full well of what they are doing. It makes them money. It also leaves people like ourselves in a dilemma. Do we set people straight and feed their algorithm, or say nothing and allow the general public to believe utter nonsense???
another thing off my bucket list of things to do once before you die.. No wingsuits (the bucket is almost empty watching youtube, also no thrill rides, no parajumping, no swimming in sea, no going to airshows, sitting in yet scant waterfalls etc. etc )
Right by brother does this shit or has done it an he's a different breed I love the land an with all the airplane crashes I don't even wanna fly anymore or at least commercial
TRULY TERRIFYING...You either are left at the pump without a car...left at the pump without a car, clothes or wallet, or your just left at the pump....it takes a special breed to successfully negotiate and navigate that terrain... God's Speed!!!
I went skydiving with the intent of getting licensed. I did three jumps the first day. My flight master took it pretty seriously. The month before a Japanese visitors had what they referred to as having “bounced”. After three jumps I decided it’s not a sport for me. I’m still here to tell about it.
“Bounced” was the term used for those who hit the ground at full speed. From what I was told the bodies literally bounce into the air after hitting the ground. It also leaves an indentation. The night before jumping everyone was drinking beer around a campfire. One of the five masters passed around a little wooden box with bone fragments. “That’s his skull” I was told. I did my three jumps the next day. I felt a visceral gut feeling that letting go of the wing strut I was hanging from saying “this goes against survival of the species” Convincing myself to let go took a certain amount of faith in others and the equipment. I jumped with a static line so once I let go I was hanging under the parachute in an instant. I did not feel the need to do this again. I am a moderate risk taker. (I drive slowly when it’s raining) Jumping from heights seems like a poor risk/reward decision. Almost all accidents involve some human mistake. Group jumps and night jumps seem to significantly increase the risk. What these guys are doing is simply high risk regardless of how talented they are. Purposely passing close to cliffs and trees seems like pathological thinking. It’s a free world. I do think thise who take high risk should also be prepared to compensate the community for the emergency requests. Calling out helicopter rescues does not come cheap. Responsible people would own the impact on others of their decisions. I think this does make for good videos.
Cars, more risky? 1:147 death to accident ratio for cars. Wing suit very close to 1:1 death per accident The correct correlation is 1 death per 600 jumps wing suit and 1.33 deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven
Yeah, I liked how he tried to sneak in that comparison in there. I’ve no idea how many accidents there have been, but as far as I know there have been only two that did not end in death - if you count an accident as an ‘unscheduled contact with the ground.’ I suppose a collision, a suit malfunction, etc, that resulted in a parachute deployment or an alternate landing, could also be considered an accident, but survivable.
100 mph = likely damage. "Your honor. I was just minding my own business, stabbing two and pushing out leaves. Suddenly this maniac hit me HARD and broke my branches. I demand compensation!"
I do understand why they do it. Who hasn't dreamed of flying? But the speeds are too high for controlled gliding imo. If you want a real thrill, it's hard to top hang gliding, plus you move at a pace where you can really enjoy the scenery.
@@larrywhalen596Anything but EVs nowadays. John Lewis is refusing to insure EVs and denying renewal of existing policies. At least three other major insurers have done the same. Wingsuit policies are less of a risk than the EV milk floats I guess.
@@heatherstewart9300 very true dat. And the squirrels do it when they have to, not because they competing to see who gets the most dangerous content to post on instagram.
I was once walking across a yard and had just barely passed a house. The house was behind me on the right side, maybe five feet away, when a squirrel comes flying over my right shoulder and slams onto the ground right in front of me. It acted stunned for a split second and then runs up a tree a few feet further ahead. It wasn't wearing a wing suit. We don't have flying squirrels where I live, but evidently we do have at least one kamikaze squirrel.
@@heatherstewart9300 No, it's logically sound. These experts got super full of themselves that they thought they could always do something 99.9% couldn't. They did that once or thrice due to sheer LUCK, but luck only gets you so far. For example, you're good at driving, doesn't mean you can control 500km/h or 300mph-ish car on F1 track. I don't think Verstappen would be stew pit enough to try such stunt albeit the compliments he got. Extreme sport "experts" like these guys just exude giga "pick me" energy. There's a reason why the aviation world is super regulated, because a tiny mistake could cost you, people around you, and people on the ground's lives. Imagine these "pros" hitting hikers, campers, or villagers that knew nothing about it? If that happened to my parents I'll still sue the sheet out those guys even though they've become porridge down there and my parents only got bruises.
@@thebluescaptain Although arrogance sometimes plays a role, most wingsuiters and base jumpers I've met are nothing like you describe. Wingsuiting is a relatively safe sport when done from a plane (similar risk as skiing, diving, surfing, etc.). And most base jumpers are aware of the risks they are taking. Some base jump courses actually require you to inform your loved ones of the high risk of dying you are involved in. I have never heard of an accident where someone died because a wingsuit crashed into them, the chance that you drive someone to death tomorrow is bigger than a wingsuiter ever crashing into you. If others are endangered in an unacceptable way you have every right to call it out, but that is simply almost never the case.
@@argh100100 The ol' classic "whataboutism". The OP even explained (paraphrased) "the incident numbers may look low enough, but considering the amount base jumpers, it's quite high". Do you even watch the video? Also, he mentioned a case where a base jumper hitting a roof. That means there's a possibility of someone living there, ergo my parents remark. "Muh car aksident higher risk" Well, no sheet Sherlock, there are literally thousands of cars moving on a main street around your house. HOWEVER, unless you're driving 300km/h, the chance of you keeling yourself is still low. But these flying ess hole? They're the more dangerous version of drunk drivers. Also, I don't call all of them a holes, just the "me so unique, me so skeeled, me so different" breeds.
"Passed away".... Dude hit a rooftop in excess of 100 mph... he didn't "pass away", he rocketed right through that shit. "Fatality rate is alarmingly high"... I think you mean "predictably high".
The best filmed wingsuit accident, not featured in this video, was the man who crashed through the wires of a suspension bridge, turning himself into a cloud of pink mist above the crowd of family and friends as they filmed the event from below. No remains were recovered, he turned to a cloud of pink mist that blew away in the breeze. His partner that jumped with him flew under the bridge, and had no idea what happened to his buddy until he was told later.
At least at that speed death is instantaneous. On Mount Everest they cannot bring you back to camp (where a whole expedition perished AT THE CAMP because of an avalanche in the past) if you suffer an injury. Literally they will leave you there still alive until you freeze to death.
@@Alex_00051 WHY the need to say "literally" like all of USA is doing over the last year or two? JUST SAY "they will leave you there still alive until you freeze to death".
No. Ending in a "SPLAT" is a bad day. But, ending in a safe landing, after a 120mph ride, when it *could* have ended in a splat, is possibly the best day.
A Darwin Award requires removing oneself from the gene pool; either by death or by injury resulting in the inability to reproduce. One of these survived and was able to reproduce.
In 1981 I jumped out of a 5th storey window with a home made wing. All went very well. I was released from the West Suffolk Hospital, just over 3 months later. "Like a Bird".
@@grahamherbert3612 damn, was it worth it? Those are terrible injuries! I hope you don't have any lasting issues because of them. I know if people have their minds made up to do something there's no talking them out of it. Can I ask how old you were?
@@Delilah70 Definitely not worth it. I'm now nearly 40, and suffer with severe limb and joint pain, and due to the spleen removal, I have a compromised immune response. I was seventeen, and full of 'birdman' bravado. The wing itself had taken months to build, and was structurally quite sound, I just hadn't taken into account my lack of forward momentum and air speed. I guess that people do the stupidest things.
@@grahamherbert3612 oh no, that's horrible, I'm really sorry to hear about your permanent injuries. That's why I asked how old you were when you did this. Definitely sounds like something a 17 year old would do. If you would have said you were like 30 when you did this...
Thank you for doing this video. I am an avid skydiver and am an instructor, although I no longer instruct. I lost a good friend named Race at Moab mamy years ago. Race was a much better skydiver than I ever have been and he BASE jumped regularly. My daughter followed in my footsteps and I am proud of her. I have BASE jumped 3 times and i will never do it again. To me, its just to scary. Skydiving is an amazing experience and even better when you are with friends. I miss you and love you Race. God bless.
“Proximity flying” is the biggest problem. You can’t see the wind currents. Like the guy in the first video, flying low you have nothing to trade for speed. You can trade altitude for speed and vice versa in most cases. Enough to get you out of trouble most times. You get slow while you’re low and you’re going to be back on the ground whether you want to be or not!
I knew Dean Potter personally while living I Yosemite. He was known mostly for his mountain climbing skills and BASE jumping, but was also a wing-suit flyer. I suspect most of these deceased in the above vid are quite impressed with themselves, i.e., thinking they are the Schmidt. Dean? I knew him casually first and he gave zero indication he was rich and famous. My co-worker asked me "Do you know who that is?" I said "Sure, it's Dean." My co-worker: "No, do you KNOW WHO THAT IS???? Go home, and look him up on RUclips." I was stunned when I saw his work on YT. He never acted like a jerk, never lorded any of his accomplishments over me, never even mentioned them. We mostly talked music and dawgs (since he always had his blue heeler Whisper with him). He was totally sane and had humility. I guarantee he was ok with his demise in the wing suit accident, doing something he loved. He just was that way. RIP my friend.
I sold my street bike when I started having kids for this very reason. Although I miss riding terribly, my kids need me around more than I needed the joy of riding. At least until they are all grown, at that point I'll certainly start riding again on the street👍
wrong, the adrenalin subsides after 100's of jumps, do you actually have skydiving experience ? I do and you do not like exactly bright making comments when you most likely not done one skydive. Skydiving and wingsuit is a sport with less risk that driving a car on the road and that can be proven statistically
@@pintail120 I think you are missing the point. Yes statistically skydiving is safer than driving. But wingsuiting is statistically much much higher than skydiving at 1 in 500 deaths. What that should tell you is that yes, these guys are searching for adrenaline because they know the risk is higher. You can be a safe driver and drive your whole life without accidents or you become a race driver on a track and then your risk goes up dramatically. See the difference? When these guys get bored of skydiving they move to more risky things like this in order get the old adrenaline flowing again.
Clouseau's boss, Inspector Dreyfuss said to Clouseau, "I want you to fly to Tokyo tomorrow". Clouseau said, "But I can't fly Inspector!" "In a plane, you idiot!".
Wingsuit itself is quiet save, flying close to terrain without exit possibility isn't. These guys just push it way to far.. . . The influence of wind, sinking air, misjudged glide ratio will kill you in a split second
I was looking for this also - the "1 in 147 automobile _accidents_ is fatal" is about as disingenuous as it gets. How many wingsuit _accidents_ are fatal? A LOT.
@@kirklorange Human history is the study of what the entire human race did in the past. It includes the time from prehistory to the present day. All this is in the past therefore it is considered Human History. For fucks sake so many places where you can get information exist such as Google, libraries, or idk picking up a dictionary? How is that so difficult.
If you exclude base jumping and proximity flying, this would be a better comparison: 13 out of 100000 people are killed by a car in the US each year. 1 out of 200000 skydiving jumps is fatal. Let's say an active wingsuiter makes a 100 jumps per year. Then 50 out of 100000 wingsuiters would die each year. So approx. 4 times as fatal as driving a car.
The only bird-like flight available for humans at that point is hang-gliding! Much safer than wing-suit and even safer than riding motor-bike. This way you can enjoy flying like a bird for hours and long distances
Paragliding and sailplanes too. Instead of being consumed by stupid adrenaline rush, you can experience something far more interesting, gain great altitude only by using 100% clean thermal energy.
@@Archerix yes, but the steering is unique on the hang-glider: weight-shift. Together with the laying position it feels like nothing else. Also sailplanes are more dangerous due to the high speed
Um actually, 8-) Riding a motorcycle is 2.5 times safer than hang gliding. But I agree with you, gliding is way better than wing suit flying. Motorcycling: 1 death in 100 000 hours Hang gliding: 1 death in 40 000 hours Paragliding: 1 death in 35 000 hours
@@Firebird356 I would like to know where you take this numbers from. It is actually impossible to know how man hours airtime a HG pilot gets, as not all record their flights and few post them. I can tell you about Austria: Severe accidents with PG+HG per year around 30. Motorbike over 4500.
I was a sky diver, extreme skier, big wave surfer, & would have taken up wingsuit flying if I'd have been 40 years old or younger when it was first popularized in 2000, but alas I was already close to 50 in 2000. I'd have needed at least 500 parachute jumps to be ready for wingsuit flying so that would realistically have taken a decade or so to achieve & then begin training for wingsuit. I was tempted many times but really the rush is not likely worth the risk it would be to me - as well as having to give up other more meaningful things than a rush from an extreme sport. Such rewards are not that attractive when you've been doing extreme things all your life. Scuba diving on acid or mushrooms, skiing slopes that have more cliffs where you spend as much time in the air as on snow, white water kayaking over waterfalls, waves so big that it's certain death if you get in the wrong spot at the wrong time. All those things lose a bit of their appeal as you get used to the fact that the more extreme the sport the less you enjoy it as you get closer & closer to the bleeding edge. You convince yourself that you love it - but it's a lot of hard work for very brief thrills - that doesn't last as much past your 60's & I'm close to 70. There's a ton of discomfort in executing these kind of adventures & after a while the price of discomfort for the outrageous adrenaline thrills - isn't as good a deal as I used to think it was. I still fly hang gliders, sailplanes, fixed wing aircraft, I still love to surf, I still climb mountains, but I don't seek the bleeding edge anymore. Sometimes it finds me for a few exciting seconds but it's no longer my favorite thing. I'd rather surf 20' or smaller waves for the most part unless conditions are perfect. In fact there's nothing I can do in 20'rs that I can't do in 10'rs - except that the 20'rs are usually in deeper water - which is definitely safer when a wave crashes over you - the bottom is much deeper & if you do get dashed on the bottom - if it's deep enough by the time I get pushed down there it's less likely I'll be injured. In fact in all extreme sports for me now - I look for the best conditions & I avoid anything that doesn't look mostly ideal. Marginal or rough conditions may seem adventurous to the younger crowd. For me it's better not to go if I don't see myself having an awesome time with acceptable risk. I doubt I'll take up wing suit flying - but your video has not influenced me as I'm already aware of how air-horny a pilot gets & have learned never to let that motivate me. I did shatter a wrist hang gliding from that very thing. It was fixed & works perfectly but there was a few weeks where I didn't know if I'd ever play guitar or piano again.
While all of these stories were mind blowing to me, Uli's got me the most. Would you ever consider wingsuit diving?
God no. My respect though.
Nothing to admire, seriously, no "precision" at all, including the broomed together statistics.
Poor wobbly aiming and hoping for the best. This way no one gets old.
Senseless waisted lives of rich bored kids. Sad.
Peace! from Dresden / Germany
If I was younger I'd do it. But I have already done base jumps and parachuting.
Don't know about proximity flights though...
I used to, then I stopped considering it
I'm old enough to know better...
But I don't.
Bring it on. I got nothing to lose.
i've been a wingsuit pilot since 2014, probably made about 150 jumps by now. gotta be honest, there are two types of people in this biz: those who hang around and jump just a few times before giving up, which we can "go pro, then go home" because they just want pictures and video for social media....
and total adrenaline psychopaths who literally don't care whether they die. these are the same guys who are into big wave surfing, extreme skiing, BASE jumping, motorcycle racing, deep diving, and all the rest of that. they're typically turbocharged testosterone bros who are, quite honestly, pretty exhausting to be around for longer than 15 minutes.
everything is a competition. you can't order a beer without one of them wanting to bet he can drink 3x as much as you. it gets tiring.
me, i just wanted to fly through the clouds. i'm 44 now and i'm doing my final jump on my birthday, october 1st 2024, when i turn 45. it's been a great 10 years, i've soared like an eagle, free and alive and full of excitement...and terror, if i'm being honest.
each flight is confronting death. though honestly, it gets a little easier as time goes by. but still, you need to always remain vigilant and careful. if you relax or get lazy for just ONE second, it can kill you--literally one second.
i've lost a friend, i've known of a few other guys who got killed or seriously injured, and there were a few very close calls in my career...VERY close calls.
i can't say i'm that different of a person now, it's not like i've stared death in the face and now i laugh at him, it's been amazing and special but i can't say i've really "learned" anything.
but i regret absolutely nothing, and i wouldn't change one moment.
PS - don't get into wingsuiting. just trust me. it's hard, it's expensive, you're sore as hell the next day, it's insanely dangerous, and tbh the community isn't all that fun to be around. it's your body, so do what you like, but take it from me....watching it on youtube is plenty good for most people.
once you jump off that cliff, there's no going back. there's only down.
Can you leave a comment here on oct 2nd, please?
Motorcycle racing doesn't count with all the other lunacy. Maybe the TT race. But that's it. Tracks and equipment has improved. Marc Marquez crashes every other race and he's still kickin
@@dsmogorYes, I wonder how our man's jump is gonna go
@@dsmogor 😁
good luck! have fun!
Every single time I don’t jump off a mountain, I don’t die.
😂😂😂 GOOD ONE!!!!!
Bc you’re a couch potato.
Damn. You're good.
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It will happen, but rest assured, it will only happen the one time, whether it coincides with you jumping off a mountain or not.
Imagine sitting in your living room and some douchebag comes crashing through your roof at a 100 mph....
And imagine He crashes on you, or a member of your family! This practice should be forbidden in certain areas...
'Honey, sounds like racoons is up in the attic again"
That's how I met Vegeta
Honey did you make a big bowl of jello 😮.
Not just any douche. A douchebag sponsored by Redbull.
You can beat death 1000 times. But death only takes one time to beat you
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They don't beat death, no one does. They cheat it. Yes, I'm fun at birthday parties.
This is no accident. This is a choice that they made. This is nuts.
so is going on drugs, you get the high but not the same, but death is
Clearly it *could* be done as safely as ordinary skydiving but the biggest thrills come from close proximity to terrain.
Changing air currents can cause accidents
@@raybod1775 Even hot spots on the ground below you can produce Density Altitude phenomena where you suddenly find yourself dropping at an increased rate.
@@Mrbfgray Jumping from a cliff is never going to be as safe as Jumping out of an airplane. Most people mix wingsiut flying with wingsiut basejumping but its not the same.
As an ex skydiver, I seriously doubt wingsuits were designed for going 3 meters from the ground at 220 miles per hour.
Grandpa was in a wing suit going with his friend down a mountain. He said that all the sudden his friend went up and down. His legs hit the ground and then he hit a tree. He says that he saw him literally explode. My grandpa and his friend didn't have a permit or anything like that. But they had been flying for YEARS
But some people flying them think they are.
@@derekfolger8345 stop making up things. If that were truth. That case isn't know. Also, even in the worst wingsuit accidents people do not explode, and even if that were truth. The case would've been known but it isn't
I just started wing suit I’m a god I can’t die
doesn't look like your past 10 jumps yet
Wingsuit isn't nearly enough adrenaline for me. I do high diving into a woodchipper. Before that, I would just pour gasoline on myself and set myself on fire and then dive into a pool of crocodiles and piranhas. That was less painful than the pool of acid I tried before that. Oh man! Good times!
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That's was great love it 😅😅😅😅
Even that bored me ,so I got married, it was fatal.
This got to be the worst way to prove you are not a bird.
I prove I'm not a bird at least once per day when my food comes out brown and not white.
Excellent! Norm might have said that. Hey, just wondering- do you own a doghouse?
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@@JeffMTX So what so its better to pretend a lemur in the sky?
Narrator: "Wing suit flying is actually safer than it might seem. Don't believe me?"
Me: No, I don't believe you.
You, sir, are the quintessential pillar of extreme human wisdom!
Dude gives stats that aren't comparable.
1 in 600 wingsuit jumps result in fatalities.
1 in 147 car accidents result end in fatalities.
wingsuit jumps do not equate to car accidents, but to how many car trips taken.
almost EVERY wingsuit accident results in fatality!!!
but most car accidents DO NOT result in fatality!!!
This video could have been edited down to 2 minutes
IKR?
Replaying certain bits over and over again. I blocked this channel and highly recommend others to do the same, unless they don't mind watching the same clips over and over again.
*WHAT A BIG WASTE OF TIME*
Actually I enjoyed watching it for 20 minutes and felt like 2 minutes to me, I watched it on the TV and laying down on a couch, I agree that sitting at a computer on smartphone would have felt too long, that is why I watch youtube on the TV and on the confort of a good couch
@@Kurtwell It just repeats itself over and over and is incredibly boring
They need to just shut up and play the original video.
More like a flying squirrel than a bird. Birds can gain altitude while wing suits only glide.
Wingsuits can actually gain altitude briefly when they pull up from full speed.
They are kind of like flying squirrels. I looked up flying squirrels and their membrane (wings) can catch the wind and get bigger almost like a parachute. Unfortunately, wing suits aren't quite that good.
I’m sure someone is working on a way to power them with a small motor 🙄.
@@velvetbees Most kinds of flying squirrel have less glide ratio than modern wingsuits which are about 3:1
It sounds like a lot of these wing suit flyers just jump and "wing it" without consulting or researching topographical maps and trajectory and telemetry charts day
Being an adrenaline junkie myself I can truly appreciate the appeal of this sport...
I have zero issue with anyone doing crazy shit... you do you!!!
BUT let's be perfectly clear here... they are NOT flying... they are directionally FALLING...
I believe Woody from Toy Story called it "falling with style"
First Law of Trains: If you don’t want to get hit by one, stay off the tracks.
great!
That was a great analogy
Wing. Suit vflyingv is no. Control. Over vthe. Strong. Wind. Subject bto. Blow. The fwingsuit to. Crash on the. Mountain track to vdeath
A railroad safety rule reads: "Always anticipate a train or on track vehicle on any track, in either direction, at all times and do not rely on your hearing."
@@Erin-jt9diBS! This is semi- controlled FALLING! Comment by former avid hangglider pilot!
I came close to flying a Cessna 180 for a skydiving club. A fellow pilot summed them up by saying only two things fall from the sky. Bird sh!t and damn fools.
thanks, I try to remember this
That's by far the funniest thing I've heard on here since watching the Little Britain Pastor Jesse King clip.
We are classified as cargo with rigs on.
180s are about the worst aircraft to jump from. Stick to your pipers, and we will all be happy.
@ 0:30 The legend you spoke about is Roberta Mancino. Yap. Female. Not Robert. She even have a makeup on her face for crying out loud. Italian and international model and a good base jumper.
That aside, there were many worse wingsuit deaths in recent history than this 6 in a video.
My favorite WS flyer was Alexander Polli. One of the best technical flyer in the world, and one of the first to push WS out of the comfort zone. Uli copied his stunts many times. He flew away also , may he rest in peace.
I was ready to progress from a skydiving to WS, but watching almost all my favorite athletes going under one by one, my perspective changed over time.
I went to speed flying instead. The golden balance between skydiving and a WS flying. Even in this discipline people loose their lives, but if you are smart and careful enough , you can have an amazing flying experience and walk away home with no injury. Also, you can do more stunts in flight and flights lasts longer ;)
The critical errors in flight comes when you forget to be afraid. Think about it a bit longer. Everyone who gest a lot of experience and progress to the stage of a master in these kind of sports , stop being afraid. Then it is just a matter of time when will the sh1t hit the fan. Fear turns to bliss and awareness goes down. When you are dealing with seconds to react, that awareness is a primary thing for any pilot to have. I know from my own experience. I also have had near death experiences many times.
I‚m still holding a touch of fear in mid flight and will be in bliss mode when I land ! :D
I hope this post will not discourage anyone with their plans to fly , but quite the opposite. Flying is one of the best thing in life a man can experience, and anyone who dream of flying, I urge them to just GO and DO IT ! There are many forms of flying, not just WS. Find the one you like and learn it good before trying stunts.
Kind regards to all ppl reading this and to all fellow flyers , I wish you a BLUE SKIES !
"If you are smart and careful enough, ... you can walk away home with no injury"
Now i dont have any experience to be fair but from what i see and know about this topic, that statement is just bs because so many things can go wrong that it doesnt matter if you even make or dont make a mistake. Your equipment can fail, different air pressure and flow could make flight paths suddenly change, its just simply a risk that no amount of "smartness" can neutralize.
Its like biking on public roads especially speeding on race bikes, it doesnt matter how good you are, its enough if your tire fails, if you hit an oil spot on the road, if another driver makes a mistake, YOU will die. And i think this topic here also falls into a comparable category
You cant lie to yourself and just say that you will 100% be fine if you are smart enough
Of course you do everything you can to stay alive, but lets be honest
You have to accept death in a way before each jump and have to be somewhat prepared as your last one. And for yourself thats fine but if you have loved ones and kids waiting at home, im not so sure about it.
Atleast i could not forgive my dad if he went doing something so dangerous for the egoistical reason to feel the "rush" but promising me to be back. Its always a risk you take
"the worst in human history" - yeah, those wingsuit accidents by the ancients were bad.
In all fairness, Icarus? 😉
@@JvanSevenhovenDidn't do too bad considering he had no zips, velcro or nylon. Only use wax these days for hair removal, the closer you get to the sun the less effective it gets mind you but they still don't warn you not to use it above 20.000 feet.
Yes, in the quest for dramatic titles... the ignorant BS abounds. 😀
those raptors the sprouted feathers hoping to turn into pterodactyls were the first wingsuit victims. too smart for their own good.
@@JvanSevenhoven in all fairness wasn't it his son that fucked up
I'm sorry, but you don't "fly" with a wing suit, you fall at a controlled angle.
They need broader "wings." So narrow looking. Would that help?
You descend in a "more or less" controlled manner.
Airplanes dropping flesh bombs.
thanks, professor
@@LynneWilliams-bi1tx
Only if you can flap em.
I didn’t know that the human body was not designed to withstand impacts of 90-100mph.
Awesome info pal! 👏
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
What a stupid comment
Civil servant?!
"Take no changes and live a boring life." -Adrenaline Junkies
And people play stupid games all around us on roads and highways. Might as well stay in bed.
agreed,hard to have sympathy
Fun fact: 90% of GoPro users' last words are "Watch THIS!"
Or "Hold my Stones".
Life is short. Shorter if you’re stupid.
Yes, going so close to rocks and mountains is really stupid.
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"The human body is not designed to withstand impacts at 100 mph."
I learn something new every day. This is useful. I shall avoid impacts at 100 mph.
Q: What speed was the human body designed to withstand for a sudden impact? I mean, originally. Before modern bodies.
A: The original limit was 5 mph (1 million BC give or take), and that's why impact bumpers were set at that speed!
Reverse or forward? 😁
Pf ill crash at 99 mph
My sperm ejected into your mom at 100mph and she was still alive to have you, son. Sp I don't think that is entirely true.
As fast as you can run...that's about it. Adrenaline is made for emergency use only; overuse leads to depression as does excitement.
The guy who built the roof that the wingsuit flyer crash on, should use that accident as a way to promote the quality of his roofs: "My roofs are so durable, even a man free falling from 8,000 feet can't destroy it. So, if you live in an area where wingnuts like to do their thing and potentially free fall onto your roof, contact me for a free home estimate."
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I'm surprised he wasn't sued for making his roof unsafe for wing suiters.
@jbarron I am surprised of the triviality, that a loved person who perished doing something they loved could be ridiculed in this fashion?? That's whats wrong with this fucked up world and the fact that video violence and games makes the act of violent deaths so normalised. Call me old fashioned. Jus sayin??
@@jmichaelbourke
@@jmichaelbourke Blaming it on violent video games has nothing to do with these nuts doing this particular dangerous "sport". I grew playing video games like Mortal Kombat and I've NEVER felt the urge to hurt anyone like in the games - much less put on a wingsuit. These idiots knew the dangers, family and partners telling them NOT to do it and yet they went ahead and did it anyway. So yes, they deserve be ridiculed - whether you like it or not.
You asked if I would dare to take up wing suit flying after watching this video. Hell, I didn't want to take up wing suit flying before watching this video, and when I was younger I participated in downhill skiing racing and car racing.
Were you just as full of shit when you were younger as you are now? Because people who are involved in those sports don't call them what you did. Which goes to show that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. So basically, you feel like you have to lie to impress people you have never and probably will never meet. What a loser you are, really, just pathetic.
Your downhill skiing racing(which no one ever called it) would be called just downhill or downhill skiing, if they were really into it they might say the type of run like the slalom, Giant slalom, superG, parallel or combined. But you are not going to hear them say to anyone "hey I participate in downhill skiing racing, hell, that's not even correct grammar,
Same thing with auto racing, which could be called drag racing, which has numerous categories like top fuel, pro mod, super street, funny car and many more. Then there is street out law racing and they have several classes they run. Of course everyone know about circle track, there's also dirt track and the list goes on an on, I've been around it all my life, and well. I let's just say I've listened to music being played on a 6 track player in the family car on the way to the races. I can't think of a time when anyone came to me and said "hey I participate in car racing", it just doesn't happen partner.
So next time before you go to tell a tall tale on the internet, better think about all the people out there that can call bullshit on ya, because you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. and just to be clear, I aint saying that you didn't ski down a hill and race one of your buddies, or race one of them in a car, but you aint what you're trying to portray yourself as, so don't try that cop-out. You know what you are trying to insinuate, and you aint that.
"Landed catastrophically ". A trifecta of Darwin award winners.
Piloting is the correct word. Btw
@@jackiepowell7513 🤔🤔🤔🤔hmmmmm....I think I'll go with "falling gracefully".....till the last second that is.
This sport is really just a bunch of people who think they know that unpredicted atmospheric events and variations won't kill them.
Kind of like climate change sceptics?
@@davefoord1259 Yesterday it was cold. Today it was warm. How can climate change SKEPTICS (not "sceptics") deny that?
@@BillMorganChannel climate change sceptics wouldnt deny that.
Actually, the real truth is....These people actually improve the human gene pool intelligence by the simple act of removing themselves from it!
My thought exactly...I've been on a plane that hit above average turbulence...nightmare sinareo
- controlled flight into terrain in VFR conditions
- failure to maintain physical separation
looks to me that it's not necessarily the wingsuit, it's just bad airmanship.
I guess I didn’t understand the pilot’s…or rather, the guy flying the plane without a license…thinking of flying in the same direction as the jumpers on his way back to the airport. The flyers can easily glide as fast as the airplane. Plus, if the video’s accurate, the plane seemed like it was diving at a similar attitude (downward angle) as the flyers, as if he was intentionally trying to keep up with them, or he was expecting them to drop straight down as if they were free falling parachutists.
If he was truly heading back to the airport, he should have first flown in the opposite direction for at least a minute or two, or at a 90 degree angle to the left or right - and maintained his altitude until they were close to, or on, the ground.
I guess we don’t know all the details, and apparently the court decided the pilot had some merit, as it seemed to me like a pretty light sentence.
HAHA! Right!
I cannot find anything on the internet that says Roberta Mancino ever called herself Robert.
I thought his face looked like a female's face ... So thank you for that . .
@@tinamarisia123 ditto ten times. So strange
It's an AI voice. You can tell by the awkward pauses.
Ta. I thought he looked a bit too feminine
The boobs were a dead giveaway. Although with today's pronouns...
At the start of the video it states "Viewer Discretion" but you cut all the viewer discretion parts out
Agreed
The "viewer discretion" parts should have been shown. Maybe that would discourage people from doing this.
PS. If the risk is death... I'm not doing it!
RUclips doesn’t allow any of those scenes anymore even with warning labels. People got soft AF.
@@MyKNOwMoretell me when you find someone who lives eternally. Then your ideas make sense. We all die. Some just do it doing something they love.
Keep hiding in the basement. This is not for someone like you. So keep fingers in your pockets in the future too.
When I was 7, dad told me if you don't want a broken arm or leg from falling out of a tree, "just don't climb a tree". A man's got to know his limitations.
Whee do I sign up! My car is 1/150 chance of dying, wingsuiting just 1/600 chance. So it's 4x safer to fly than drive. I think I will fly everywhere. This is called "abuse of statistics" and leads to entirely untrue conclusions.
A car crash is being compared to a flight. I certainly do not crash every 150 trips in a car. wouldn't last long driving to work.
@@williamrogers. It really was gross misrepresentation. Once in a car crash, there is a 1 in 150 chance of death. People take hundreds or thousands of trips without ever crashing, so overall the odds of getting into your car tomorrow and dying, is maybe 1 in 100,000.
To equate that with flysuit jumping was crazy. If you went for a jump tomorrow there is a 1 in 600 chance of dying!! That's terrible odds. That makes flysuit jumping about 2000 times more risky than driving a car. Not the nonsense that was presented in this video.
Thanks for getting there before me. The sentence might be accurate ("One in 147 accidents results in fatality") for car journeys, but this was not followed by "X in Y wingsuit accidents results in death or permanent disability".
I would hazard a guess that a wingnutsuit accident usually leads to more than bruise or two.
@@peterwilson7532 Precisely. However, RUclipsrs regularly mispronounce words and make outlandish claims just to build their comments and interactions knowing full well of what they are doing. It makes them money. It also leaves people like ourselves in a dilemma. Do we set people straight and feed their algorithm, or say nothing and allow the general public to believe utter nonsense???
I'm sure that if you calculate the number of car drivers relative to the amount of wing suit fallers you will find the numbers to be very different.
"Severe and immediate" - interesting way to describe a sudden stop at 90 mph
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly ...
another thing off my bucket list of things to do once before you die.. No wingsuits (the bucket is almost empty watching youtube, also no thrill rides, no parajumping, no swimming in sea, no going to airshows, sitting in yet scant waterfalls etc. etc )
should be named a Darwin suit.
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Nope that’s Lizzo
For sure
and you have not even tried it, mighty brave from your arm chair, what bravery have you ever pulled off ?
Right by brother does this shit or has done it an he's a different breed I love the land an with all the airplane crashes I don't even wanna fly anymore or at least commercial
There are old wing suiters and bold wing suites, but no old bold wing suiters.
These incidents are neither tragic nor heroic, but, rather, inevitable. No tears need be shed.
Wingsuit flight isn't hard, the impact is.
Landing….
@@JeffMTX no
Well said, very sharp ! 🤣🤣🤣
@@GaijinGamerGirl no landing?
@@JeffMTX It's not the flying that kills, it's the sudden stop..
That’s nothing, I went to a gas station for a fill up in Detroit
TRULY TERRIFYING...You either are left at the pump without a car...left at the pump without a car, clothes or wallet, or your just left at the pump....it takes a special breed to successfully negotiate and navigate that terrain... God's Speed!!!
Those Dudes are literally playing with death. Often death wins.
I don’t want the most significant thing I did in my life to be the stupidest thing I did in my life.
EXACTLY
Did you get married?
I went skydiving with the intent of getting licensed. I did three jumps the first day. My flight master took it pretty seriously. The month before a Japanese visitors had what they referred to as having “bounced”.
After three jumps I decided it’s not a sport for me.
I’m still here to tell about it.
@@matshagstrom9839 "bounced"?
“Bounced” was the term used for those who hit the ground at full speed. From what I was told the bodies literally bounce into the air after hitting the ground. It also leaves an indentation.
The night before jumping everyone was drinking beer around a campfire. One of the five masters passed around a little wooden box with bone fragments. “That’s his skull” I was told. I did my three jumps the next day. I felt a visceral gut feeling that letting go of the wing strut I was hanging from saying “this goes against survival of the species”
Convincing myself to let go took a certain amount of faith in others and the equipment. I jumped with a static line so once I let go I was hanging under the parachute in an instant.
I did not feel the need to do this again. I am a moderate risk taker. (I drive slowly when it’s raining) Jumping from heights seems like a poor risk/reward decision.
Almost all accidents involve some human mistake. Group jumps and night jumps seem to significantly increase the risk. What these guys are doing is simply high risk regardless of how talented they are. Purposely passing close to cliffs and trees seems like pathological thinking.
It’s a free world. I do think thise who take high risk should also be prepared to compensate the community for the emergency requests.
Calling out helicopter rescues does not come cheap. Responsible people would own the impact on others of their decisions.
I think this does make for good videos.
You said that the wingsuit person in the white suit was called Robert mancino.she is in fact called Roberta mancino .
Was gonna say "Hey that's no dude!" I was right!
I say Tomato. You say Tomoto.
@@joediaz2589 .....I thought it was either a gal or a Trans 😆
Let’s not assume gender until we can identify the parts that are still recognizable
Cars, more risky? 1:147 death to accident ratio for cars.
Wing suit very close to 1:1 death per accident
The correct correlation is 1 death per 600 jumps wing suit and 1.33 deaths per 100,000,000 miles driven
Yeah, I liked how he tried to sneak in that comparison in there. I’ve no idea how many accidents there have been, but as far as I know there have been only two that did not end in death - if you count an accident as an ‘unscheduled contact with the ground.’
I suppose a collision, a suit malfunction, etc, that resulted in a parachute deployment or an alternate landing, could also be considered an accident, but survivable.
Now you compared "jumps" to "miles" which is also not too bright.
No trees were harmed during impact. 🤣
I'm not so sure? Ha!
100 mph = likely damage.
"Your honor. I was just minding my own business, stabbing two and pushing out leaves. Suddenly this maniac hit me HARD and broke my branches. I demand compensation!"
Taking 'tree huggin' to a whole nuther level ...
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100% fck around -> 100% find out -> 0% mercy...Our ego is our worst enemy in life.
Yep.
I do understand why they do it. Who hasn't dreamed of flying? But the speeds are too high for controlled gliding imo. If you want a real thrill, it's hard to top hang gliding, plus you move at a pace where you can really enjoy the scenery.
You can say that about any activity that involves high risk. Driving a car, playing sports, owning a gun, etc.
Your ego is Not your amigo
@@argh100100 Agreed except "owning a gun" is like owning car keys.
Chat GPT really put it's heart and soul into this one.
I’ve been trying to talk my wife into taking-up this hobby.
I'm guessing first brought it up was around the same time u got the insurance policy
well tha's one way to become a widow
@@csantama
*widower…and yes, you caught my drift.
Just remember to contact Lloyd's of London for an Insurance policy, as they are known to insure anything. 😦 😆 😁 (!?)
@@larrywhalen596Anything but EVs nowadays. John Lewis is refusing to insure EVs and denying renewal of existing policies. At least three other major insurers have done the same. Wingsuit policies are less of a risk than the EV milk floats I guess.
Leave this to the birds and squirrels who were literally built for this.
Even Flying Squirrels just go from tree to tree, they aren't out trying to prove to other squirels they have the biggest nuts. lol
@@heatherstewart9300 very true dat. And the squirrels do it when they have to, not because they competing to see who gets the most dangerous content to post on instagram.
I was once walking across a yard and had just barely passed a house. The house was behind me on the right side, maybe five feet away, when a squirrel comes flying over my right shoulder and slams onto the ground right in front of me. It acted stunned for a split second and then runs up a tree a few feet further ahead. It wasn't wearing a wing suit. We don't have flying squirrels where I live, but evidently we do have at least one kamikaze squirrel.
People built the ability to do this tard
Is the circle being on fire necessary, did you fall for its massive influence
"There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots"
All of the guys who were killed you describe as experts, very experienced. Seems like beginners are actually pretty safe.
Maybe, ...or not as mentionable. A "sport" where, the better you get, the more at risk you are, ...something's not right with that. lol
@@heatherstewart9300 Yes. The accident reports always say how smart, safe, and skilled the victims are.
@@heatherstewart9300 No, it's logically sound. These experts got super full of themselves that they thought they could always do something 99.9% couldn't. They did that once or thrice due to sheer LUCK, but luck only gets you so far.
For example, you're good at driving, doesn't mean you can control 500km/h or 300mph-ish car on F1 track. I don't think Verstappen would be stew pit enough to try such stunt albeit the compliments he got.
Extreme sport "experts" like these guys just exude giga "pick me" energy. There's a reason why the aviation world is super regulated, because a tiny mistake could cost you, people around you, and people on the ground's lives. Imagine these "pros" hitting hikers, campers, or villagers that knew nothing about it? If that happened to my parents I'll still sue the sheet out those guys even though they've become porridge down there and my parents only got bruises.
@@thebluescaptain Although arrogance sometimes plays a role, most wingsuiters and base jumpers I've met are nothing like you describe. Wingsuiting is a relatively safe sport when done from a plane (similar risk as skiing, diving, surfing, etc.). And most base jumpers are aware of the risks they are taking. Some base jump courses actually require you to inform your loved ones of the high risk of dying you are involved in.
I have never heard of an accident where someone died because a wingsuit crashed into them, the chance that you drive someone to death tomorrow is bigger than a wingsuiter ever crashing into you. If others are endangered in an unacceptable way you have every right to call it out, but that is simply almost never the case.
@@argh100100 The ol' classic "whataboutism". The OP even explained (paraphrased) "the incident numbers may look low enough, but considering the amount base jumpers, it's quite high".
Do you even watch the video?
Also, he mentioned a case where a base jumper hitting a roof. That means there's a possibility of someone living there, ergo my parents remark.
"Muh car aksident higher risk"
Well, no sheet Sherlock, there are literally thousands of cars moving on a main street around your house. HOWEVER, unless you're driving 300km/h, the chance of you keeling yourself is still low. But these flying ess hole? They're the more dangerous version of drunk drivers.
Also, I don't call all of them a holes, just the "me so unique, me so skeeled, me so different" breeds.
"Passed away"....
Dude hit a rooftop in excess of 100 mph... he didn't "pass away", he rocketed right through that shit.
"Fatality rate is alarmingly high"... I think you mean "predictably high".
Turned to Red mist,
People don't realise how soft the human body is until you hit something at speed
Went splat?
Imagine sitting in your bedroom, having a tom hank, and this dude crashes through your ceiling.
He essentially became a meat torpedo
How is this possible??? İ'm scared doing 30 miles an hour on A step!!!
Remember the paramedics who go out and pick up the pieces of these idiots
Remember those paramedics are paid. What they are working on is immaterial in this case. Are you sure you didn't just show up to complain?
Of course the person did..
if man was meant to fly, he would have been born with an endless supply of airline tickets.
Bruh... 😄
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Pro tip: don't fly close to hard objects.
At 100 miles per hour everything becomes hard.
It's like in Space Engineers game: Don't collide with objects when your speed is high!
They feel and see the speed more dramatic when they are close to the ground or close to the mountain sides...
And that makes it dangerous...
@@richard--s Close is okay. "Into" is what gets you killed.
Or your buddy
The best filmed wingsuit accident, not featured in this video, was the man who crashed through the wires of a suspension bridge, turning himself into a cloud of pink mist above the crowd of family and friends as they filmed the event from below. No remains were recovered, he turned to a cloud of pink mist that blew away in the breeze. His partner that jumped with him flew under the bridge, and had no idea what happened to his buddy until he was told later.
Anything that could end in "SPLAT" at about 120mph is a bad day.
Then don't ride with me on a motorcycle. Or vehicle. 🤣
At least at that speed death is instantaneous.
On Mount Everest they cannot bring you back to camp (where a whole expedition perished AT THE CAMP because of an avalanche in the past) if you suffer an injury.
Literally they will leave you there still alive until you freeze to death.
@@Alex_00051 WHY the need to say "literally" like all of USA is doing over the last year or two? JUST SAY "they will leave you there still alive until you freeze to death".
Perhaps better than getting old and decrepit and ending ip in an old peoples' home?
No. Ending in a "SPLAT" is a bad day. But, ending in a safe landing, after a 120mph ride, when it *could* have ended in a splat, is possibly the best day.
They think they're Rocky the Flying Squirrel until something goes wrong then they're a smashed bug on the windshield.
It just goes to show, gravity rules
Darwin awards ... All winners...
one nominee...the 1st moron
A Darwin Award requires removing oneself from the gene pool; either by death or by injury resulting in the inability to reproduce. One of these survived and was able to reproduce.
In 1981 I jumped out of a 5th storey window with a home made wing. All went very well. I was released from the West Suffolk Hospital, just over 3 months later. "Like a Bird".
Obviously, all didn't go very well.
@@Delilah70 Two broken legs, a ruptured spleen, four broken ribs, and a fractured shoulder. It was a very close call.
@@grahamherbert3612 damn, was it worth it? Those are terrible injuries! I hope you don't have any lasting issues because of them.
I know if people have their minds made up to do something there's no talking them out of it. Can I ask how old you were?
@@Delilah70 Definitely not worth it. I'm now nearly 40, and suffer with severe limb and joint pain, and due to the spleen removal, I have a compromised immune response. I was seventeen, and full of 'birdman' bravado. The wing itself had taken months to build, and was structurally quite sound, I just hadn't taken into account my lack of forward momentum and air speed. I guess that people do the stupidest things.
@@grahamherbert3612 oh no, that's horrible, I'm really sorry to hear about your permanent injuries. That's why I asked how old you were when you did this. Definitely sounds like something a 17 year old would do. If you would have said you were like 30 when you did this...
Thank you for doing this video. I am an avid skydiver and am an instructor, although I no longer instruct. I lost a good friend named Race at Moab mamy years ago. Race was a much better skydiver than I ever have been and he BASE jumped regularly. My daughter followed in my footsteps and I am proud of her. I have BASE jumped 3 times and i will never do it again. To me, its just to scary. Skydiving is an amazing experience and even better when you are with friends. I miss you and love you Race. God bless.
Next video: 6 Worst Wingsuit Accidents in the Jurassic Period
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The other day I was flying a kite in a stiff north breeze. It crashed violently into my Maple tree. I went in the house and cracked a beer.
Was the kite shaped like a person wearing a wing suit?
I just hope the tree is alright.
You're not showing anything. And with regards to these flyers they have absolutely no respect for their lives.
Go away small balls, this place isn't for you .
Shut up and rot on your couch.
Must be like a bug hitting the windshield
Except there's no wipers.
“Proximity flying” is the biggest problem. You can’t see the wind currents. Like the guy in the first video, flying low you have nothing to trade for speed. You can trade altitude for speed and vice versa in most cases. Enough to get you out of trouble most times. You get slow while you’re low and you’re going to be back on the ground whether you want to be or not!
Wingsuit flying isn't flying, It's falling with style!
I knew Dean Potter personally while living I Yosemite. He was known mostly for his mountain climbing skills and BASE jumping, but was also a wing-suit flyer. I suspect most of these deceased in the above vid are quite impressed with themselves, i.e., thinking they are the Schmidt. Dean? I knew him casually first and he gave zero indication he was rich and famous. My co-worker asked me "Do you know who that is?" I said "Sure, it's Dean." My co-worker: "No, do you KNOW WHO THAT IS???? Go home, and look him up on RUclips." I was stunned when I saw his work on YT. He never acted like a jerk, never lorded any of his accomplishments over me, never even mentioned them. We mostly talked music and dawgs (since he always had his blue heeler Whisper with him). He was totally sane and had humility. I guarantee he was ok with his demise in the wing suit accident, doing something he loved. He just was that way. RIP my friend.
What an absurdly idiotic comment
Died while doing something he loved??? Bull-Schiff!!
I doubt that, right before he crashed , he said....
"I LOVE THIS"
Sad for his dog... all they know is their beloved human abandoned them..
These types of guys" Should not have kids...,, ounce you are a father . Your kid is more important then the risk they take
Not w Scott Fischer or Ron hall, sadly. Hall just was having a baby. 1996 Mt everest disaster
Exactly.
Piloting, landed or falling gracefully; still ended the same. No amount of semantics change " ended with a fatal impact. Sadly R I P for 3 friends?
I sold my street bike when I started having kids for this very reason. Although I miss riding terribly, my kids need me around more than I needed the joy of riding. At least until they are all grown, at that point I'll certainly start riding again on the street👍
@@JaredReeves12 have heard this story so many times, and it's perfectly reasonable.
Me - I don't have children. 75 y/o and still riding.
00:26 it's a woman btw... Roberta Mancino.
Not sure pilot is the correct term for these people.
It is, as far as my 30 seconds of googling says
The correct term is corpse.
The correct term is Dirt Dart
I think the word you want is "Pillock."
@@AdullFiddler-ez7tm scraper ... road kill ...
Wingnuts in wingsuits.
375%
Screws loose in loose suits.
This is a very good video
They are addicted to the adrenaline rush of being close to death.
But why rush your day to die of course were all gonna die but why rush it
Most addictions will kill you.
@@boneseyyl1060 Exept weed😉😄
wrong, the adrenalin subsides after 100's of jumps, do you actually have skydiving experience ?
I do and you do not like exactly bright making comments when you most likely not done one skydive.
Skydiving and wingsuit is a sport with less risk that driving a car on the road and that can be proven statistically
@@pintail120 I think you are missing the point. Yes statistically skydiving is safer than driving. But wingsuiting is statistically much much higher than skydiving at 1 in 500 deaths. What that should tell you is that yes, these guys are searching for adrenaline because they know the risk is higher. You can be a safe driver and drive your whole life without accidents or you become a race driver on a track and then your risk goes up dramatically. See the difference?
When these guys get bored of skydiving they move to more risky things like this in order get the old adrenaline flowing again.
The first such incident that comes to my mind is when, in 1912, Franz Reichelt jumped with a wingsuit of the Eiffel Tower...
As soon as he said viewer discretion is advised I subscribed.😂
The comparison with car accidents was totally irrational
Yeah...even if you do crash your car, how many wing suits come equipped with air bags?
The entire narration was idiotic AI generated nonsense.
An object once in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an opposing force. Like rocks and trees.
Also: Double the speed, Quadruple the energy!
Being in a suit doesn’t make you a pilot 😂
fact
...or a bird.
@@elcheapo9444 lol, another fact.
Never jump from a perfectly good airplane.
There is no such thing.
Standard reply - "On a drop zone, they is no such thing as a perfectly good airplane. "
Who said they were perfect or good?
You have never been in a plane converted for skydivers.
@@brucebr1037 There is no such thing as a perfectly good aeroplane, anywhere.
you'd better tell that to all the military parachutists.
Our bodies are not designed to fly. We can do it anyways but then there should be no complaining when it doesn't work out.
Christmas in July, California style. Lmfao 😂 😂 😂 😅😂
Clouseau's boss, Inspector Dreyfuss said to Clouseau, "I want you to fly to Tokyo tomorrow". Clouseau said, "But I can't fly Inspector!" "In a plane, you idiot!".
Wingsuit itself is quiet save, flying close to terrain without exit possibility isn't. These guys just push it way to far.. . .
The influence of wind, sinking air, misjudged glide ratio will kill you in a split second
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shortform of what you said: madness is killing very often
The closes I came to this was falling off a bar stool
1,000,000. One thousand thousand..lmao
Its fully IA generated content.
I was looking for this comment 😂
I was looking for this also - the "1 in 147 automobile _accidents_ is fatal" is about as disingenuous as it gets. How many wingsuit _accidents_ are fatal? A LOT.
@@christasimon9716Also what are the odds of being in an car accident in the first place ?
@@djm8027 Exactly! Those are not comparable stats.
This is nothing. I ate breakfast at Waffle House this morning.
A brave one, indeed you are.
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You probably should have worn a Biohazard suit and donated the food to an Alligator,,,Ok I've choked down waffle house food when I was drunk 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤣
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This man is bat shit crazy...and should be locked up as an example to all
It’s funny hearing “in what was supposed to be a routine flight” about a wing suit flight haha
I love the way the title of the video make it seem like humans have been wingsuiting for centuries.
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I suppose they have - over 100 years ago Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower in a wing/parachute suit in 1912 and plummeted to his death.
Do you not understand what human history means?
@@xKitzunexx Tell me ...
@@kirklorange Human history is the study of what the entire human race did in the past. It includes the time from prehistory to the present day. All this is in the past therefore it is considered Human History. For fucks sake so many places where you can get information exist such as Google, libraries, or idk picking up a dictionary? How is that so difficult.
Base Jumpers: "We will defy DEATH!"
Death: "Challenge accepted!"
its a one shot deal ...
And even if death loses this one, the challenger will be back.
@@eddarby469 Yep. You may defy gravity a few times, but gravity still works.
I had no idea that the human body was not designed to handle impacts in excessive 100 mph.
Yes, that's where a lot of people go wrong 😊
18:55 the chances of getting into a car accident to begin with, and then 1 out if 147 (so they say), makes driving a LOT safer than wing idiots.
Was looking to see if someone caught that.
Yeah. Dumb comparison.
If you exclude base jumping and proximity flying, this would be a better comparison:
13 out of 100000 people are killed by a car in the US each year. 1 out of 200000 skydiving jumps is fatal. Let's say an active wingsuiter makes a 100 jumps per year. Then 50 out of 100000 wingsuiters would die each year. So approx. 4 times as fatal as driving a car.
"It doesn't sound too hard."
Its sounds incredibly hard.
HAHAHAH dude had less injuries then me on a motorcycle LMAOOO
NIce video....the Italian wingsuit flyer is Roberta*
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought "Robert" looked a lot like a girl and way too pretty to be a boy.
I know thought same think man is he cute
@@labla8940 Bruh sporting fake eyelashes ?
I was wondering the same thing, because that was a very feminine looking person.
I guess this is what we get for watching trash TV😆
The only bird-like flight available for humans at that point is hang-gliding! Much safer than wing-suit and even safer than riding motor-bike. This way you can enjoy flying like a bird for hours and long distances
Paragliding and sailplanes too. Instead of being consumed by stupid adrenaline rush, you can experience something far more interesting, gain great altitude only by using 100% clean thermal energy.
@@Archerix yes, but the steering is unique on the hang-glider: weight-shift. Together with the laying position it feels like nothing else. Also sailplanes are more dangerous due to the high speed
Um actually, 8-)
Riding a motorcycle is 2.5 times safer than hang gliding. But I agree with you, gliding is way better than wing suit flying.
Motorcycling: 1 death in 100 000 hours
Hang gliding: 1 death in 40 000 hours
Paragliding: 1 death in 35 000 hours
@@Firebird356 I would like to know where you take this numbers from. It is actually impossible to know how man hours airtime a HG pilot gets, as not all record their flights and few post them. I can tell you about Austria: Severe accidents with PG+HG per year around 30. Motorbike over 4500.
@@safurian There's billions of man hours of motorcycle riding not accounted for around the world too
This conversation is a testament to the power of women coming together to share knowledge and experience.
Before they jump they need to yell " I KNOW THE RISK!!!!"
I think they should have to yell "I know my death will hurt my friends and family hugely,
but I don't give a shit because I'm a selfish dickhead"
I was a sky diver, extreme skier, big wave surfer, & would have taken up wingsuit flying if I'd have been 40 years old or younger when it was first popularized in 2000, but alas I was already close to 50 in 2000. I'd have needed at least 500 parachute jumps to be ready for wingsuit flying so that would realistically have taken a decade or so to achieve & then begin training for wingsuit.
I was tempted many times but really the rush is not likely worth the risk it would be to me - as well as having to give up other more meaningful things than a rush from an extreme sport. Such rewards are not that attractive when you've been doing extreme things all your life. Scuba diving on acid or mushrooms, skiing slopes that have more cliffs where you spend as much time in the air as on snow, white water kayaking over waterfalls, waves so big that it's certain death if you get in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
All those things lose a bit of their appeal as you get used to the fact that the more extreme the sport the less you enjoy it as you get closer & closer to the bleeding edge. You convince yourself that you love it - but it's a lot of hard work for very brief thrills - that doesn't last as much past your 60's & I'm close to 70. There's a ton of discomfort in executing these kind of adventures & after a while the price of discomfort for the outrageous adrenaline thrills - isn't as good a deal as I used to think it was.
I still fly hang gliders, sailplanes, fixed wing aircraft, I still love to surf, I still climb mountains, but I don't seek the bleeding edge anymore. Sometimes it finds me for a few exciting seconds but it's no longer my favorite thing. I'd rather surf 20' or smaller waves for the most part unless conditions are perfect. In fact there's nothing I can do in 20'rs that I can't do in 10'rs - except that the 20'rs are usually in deeper water - which is definitely safer when a wave crashes over you - the bottom is much deeper & if you do get dashed on the bottom - if it's deep enough by the time I get pushed down there it's less likely I'll be injured.
In fact in all extreme sports for me now - I look for the best conditions & I avoid anything that doesn't look mostly ideal. Marginal or rough conditions may seem adventurous to the younger crowd. For me it's better not to go if I don't see myself having an awesome time with acceptable risk. I doubt I'll take up wing suit flying - but your video has not influenced me as I'm already aware of how air-horny a pilot gets & have learned never to let that motivate me. I did shatter a wrist hang gliding from that very thing. It was fixed & works perfectly but there was a few weeks where I didn't know if I'd ever play guitar or piano again.
So?
Thank you Mr. Chuck Norris
You can still do it and you don’t need to learn 😂
Just not very smart people out there