Skydiver jumps from 26,000ft without a parachute, lands in a net and survives
07-31-2016, 02:05 PMPretty ballsy
Quote: (07-31-2016 02:09 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:
idk how you can accurately calculate when you need to jump, with 25,000 feet very subtle changes in wind would throw you off course. that is insane.
even if you jumped out of the plane like 2 seconds late you'd be dead.
Quote: (07-31-2016 02:42 PM)Mercenary Wrote:
I dont know how much it cost this guy to set this up but it was probably a fucking boatload of cash.
This is what happens when people have more money than sense.
I can think of a million better ways to have spent that kind of dough that would have benefitted himself throughout this life.
Does he have a family ? Children ?
If my father spent that kind of cash for purely selfish vainglorious reasons id be pretty pissed off at him for a damn long time.
Quote: (07-31-2016 02:42 PM)Fast Eddie Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2016 02:09 PM)Disco_Volante Wrote:
idk how you can accurately calculate when you need to jump, with 25,000 feet very subtle changes in wind would throw you off course. that is insane.
even if you jumped out of the plane like 2 seconds late you'd be dead.
Not necessarily. They probably chose 25,000ft as the jumping height precisely to allow him time and space to course-correct. A skydiver is not a rock. You can maneuver while falling, and 25,000ft of vertical drop is a lot of space in which to do it.
Quote: (07-31-2016 03:52 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:
Guys he's got 18000 jumps under his belt. Guy knew what he was doing and how to hit a spot. Its one of the things you need to learn how to do when skydiving. I say this as a guy with 13 jumps.
Usually the procedure is looking out the airplane, while its in the air cruising at the altitude you'll jump at, to spot out your landing zone and then when you jump you can maneuver around. no lazer tracking system is required. If he had any instrument it would be an altimeter.
Where i do it, we jump at 13500ft up in the air. I think above 20k you need oxygen so thats why you see him wearing a mask at the beginning of the video.
Quote: (07-31-2016 04:22 PM)Lagavulin Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2016 03:52 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:
Guys he's got 18000 jumps under his belt. Guy knew what he was doing and how to hit a spot. Its one of the things you need to learn how to do when skydiving. I say this as a guy with 13 jumps.
Usually the procedure is looking out the airplane, while its in the air cruising at the altitude you'll jump at, to spot out your landing zone and then when you jump you can maneuver around. no lazer tracking system is required. If he had any instrument it would be an altimeter.
Where i do it, we jump at 13500ft up in the air. I think above 20k you need oxygen so thats why you see him wearing a mask at the beginning of the video.
Fucking stupid if you ask me. A pointless stunt.
Jumping from 25,000 feet had nothing to with giving him time to manoeuvre, it was probably chosen only because it's high and sounds impressive, and maybe because it justifies the use of oxygen.
I'm a qualified skydiver, although I haven't jumped in a few years. And believe it or not it gets boring. Leaping into thin air is a massive buzz but once you settle into freefall it becomes boring quite quickly (after a few jumps). Once you pull the cord and you're floating down to earth in your parachute all you want to do is get down as soon as possible and re-pack so you can get back up and make that leap into nothing again. Rinse and repeat.
This is why guys push the boundaries and do stupid things like climb out of their parachute and hang off the straps before climbing back in, cut away their main chute and pull their reserve, BASE jumping (although I think that's legit), and now stunts like this.
With regards to learning how to hit a spot when you're skydiving - hitting a spot while drifting to earth in a parachute is totally different to hitting a spot at terminal velocity. It doesn't matter how many jumps you've got under your belt, how can you practise this?
How long till some other dumbass gives it a go, makes a slight misjudgement and becomes a human pancake.
Quote: (07-31-2016 04:34 PM)Fast Eddie Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2016 04:22 PM)Lagavulin Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2016 03:52 PM)CaptainChardonnay Wrote:
Guys he's got 18000 jumps under his belt. Guy knew what he was doing and how to hit a spot. Its one of the things you need to learn how to do when skydiving. I say this as a guy with 13 jumps.
Usually the procedure is looking out the airplane, while its in the air cruising at the altitude you'll jump at, to spot out your landing zone and then when you jump you can maneuver around. no lazer tracking system is required. If he had any instrument it would be an altimeter.
Where i do it, we jump at 13500ft up in the air. I think above 20k you need oxygen so thats why you see him wearing a mask at the beginning of the video.
Fucking stupid if you ask me. A pointless stunt.
Jumping from 25,000 feet had nothing to with giving him time to manoeuvre, it was probably chosen only because it's high and sounds impressive, and maybe because it justifies the use of oxygen.
I'm a qualified skydiver, although I haven't jumped in a few years. And believe it or not it gets boring. Leaping into thin air is a massive buzz but once you settle into freefall it becomes boring quite quickly (after a few jumps). Once you pull the cord and you're floating down to earth in your parachute all you want to do is get down as soon as possible and re-pack so you can get back up and make that leap into nothing again. Rinse and repeat.
This is why guys push the boundaries and do stupid things like climb out of their parachute and hang off the straps before climbing back in, cut away their main chute and pull their reserve, BASE jumping (although I think that's legit), and now stunts like this.
With regards to learning how to hit a spot when you're skydiving - hitting a spot while drifting to earth in a parachute is totally different to hitting a spot at terminal velocity. It doesn't matter how many jumps you've got under your belt, how can you practise this?
How long till some other dumbass gives it a go, makes a slight misjudgement and becomes a human pancake.
You seem angry. No shit it was a "pointless stunt." Is regular skydiving any less pointless? Unless you're dropping behind Taliban lines at night with your pimped-out M4 and night-vision goggles, there is no logical, good reason to jump out of a plane in the first place yet people do it all the time, for fun, you included.
You pushed your own boundaries when you did your first jump. This guy is simply doing the same thing, now that he's performed 18,000 regular jumps and doing regular jump 18,001 doesn't really make much sense from a theory of diminishing returns perspective.
Quote: (07-31-2016 05:46 PM)RichardCranium Wrote:
Notice the subtle dig at the end of the video about it being a long before his wife "lets" him do it again.
Quote: (07-31-2016 05:50 PM)thoughtgypsy Wrote:
Quote: (07-31-2016 05:46 PM)RichardCranium Wrote:
Notice the subtle dig at the end of the video about it being a long before his wife "lets" him do it again.
Yea, the narrator is passive aggressive, barely hiding his seething jealousy of the daredevil. When they interview the wife, she's pensively hopeful that her husband will complete the jump alive. The husband had the final say, and clearly has the upper hand in the relationship. The narrator probably has to settle for table scraps on OKC, and taking the ballsy skydiver down a peg anonymously is all he can muster.