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Anonymous at Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:29:13 UTC No. 124813
I almost died in my wingsuit yesterday- AMA
>Ominous feeling a few days leading up to First flight course
>30th bday is next week
>dads bday is the day of the flight course
>had to buy a bigger and more aggressive wingsuit than I should be flying as a student because my body is Fat.zip
>dreaming of flatspinning and dying
>cant sleep for a few nights
>day of FFC finally comes
>ask instructor "how many people have you had flat spin on their first jump?"
>"oh zero dude- I have never seen it you will be fine"
>in plane
>momsspaghetti
>exit
>exit was actually pretty good, I correct my heading and start doing "practice pulls" so I know where my handle is
>first practice goes badly, didnt feel handle and went head down
>next 2 practice pulls were equally as bad
>thisisit.tif
>make final turn and keep flying the suit
>5500 feet- time to pull for real
>reach for handle
>do NOT close leg wing
>immediately go head down
>aighimmaheadout.jpg
>cant find handle
>4000 feet
>suit pressurizes from the airspeed, I now know where my handle it but I can't physically reach it because of how much air pressure is in the suit
>reach hard as fuck
>flatspin initiated
>3000 feet
>now spinning on my back, head down
>dads b day
>screaming in my helmet I rip my cutaway handle and reserve
>reserve pilot chute comes up between my legs
>instantly my reserve inflates and snatches my shoulders up under my legs, cracking every bone in my back in the resulting backflip
>I look up still seeing stars- no twists it's good
>then
>*beep beep* my alarm says
>1400 feet.
>time to begin my landing pattern
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:30:17 UTC No. 124818
did you die?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Nov 2022 06:37:43 UTC No. 124864
>>124813
If you were flying anything smaller than an aura/jedei/sukhoi you should kys rn... Go buy a sumo and track for the next 100 jumps unironically before you get into a wingsuit again. Then get a babys first wingsuit and try again. Fukin nerd...
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:24:08 UTC No. 124869
>>124818
He didn't reply to I guess so
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Anonymous at Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:05:23 UTC No. 124994
wow scary
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:47:15 UTC No. 125068
>>124813
How many jumps have you done before?
Anonymous at Sat, 3 Dec 2022 20:11:55 UTC No. 127790
>>124813
this is why training is important.
Also when going for your reserve, no need to pull the cutaway first
t. AFF-I
Anonymous at Tue, 6 Dec 2022 23:07:17 UTC No. 128197
>>124813
Way to keep it together and survive. Glad you're still breathing.
Never thought I'd see a thread on 4chan on this subject. I've almost killed myself with a wingsuit three times. Here's one:
> at exit point, 7 second rock drop, maybe 2500' above lz, maybe 5000' distant from lz
>have to cross a set of high tension power lines and a freeway to reach lz
>worked a night shift the night before and drove four hours to get there
>exhausted, not on my A-game
>jump, fly
>realize I'm not really flying in the right direction, turn left
>lose altitude in turn, now flying straight into headwind, forward motion mostly stopped
>out of altitude, pitch
>canopy opens in perfect 180
>now flying perfectly downwind, directly at powerlines
>fix my shit, pop toggles
>directly over powerlines, unable to clear them in either direction
>commit to shooting the slot down the middle of the lines
>canopy barely fits between both sets of powerlines
>can't believe I fit, look down at pile of jumbled boulders
>whatever, broken legs are better than getting electrocuted
>somehow stand up a landing on some shrubs between two massive boulders
>in disbelief at what just happened
Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
Anonymous at Tue, 6 Dec 2022 23:12:06 UTC No. 128198
>>124864
Ok call me crazy but I found pitching in a sumo harder than any wingsuit I've flown because the ass inflated so much that it swallowed my handle. Not a fan.
Anonymous at Wed, 7 Dec 2022 02:04:29 UTC No. 128211
>>124813
>>128197
Y'all are nuts just saying. I heard this rush results in addiction until you inevitably due. I want to learn ice climbing though so I guess I can't judge.