Anyone Into Wingsuit Flying?

menobrah

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guy I worked with got super into skydiving...spent a few years doing that and then moved into the wingsuit thing..guy is happily suicidal as far as I can tell.
 

kelly7873

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Ironically, parachute failure seems to be most common cause of death.

I don't believe this is true. It seems like every wingsuit death I hear about is when they fly into terrain. The University of Colorado did a study of Fatalities in Wingsuit BASE Jumping, from 2002 to 2011 there were 39 wingsuit deaths in their study. They listed the "Fatal incident mechanism" as glide path miscalculation in 17 cases, unknown in 9 Exit complication in 7 and Pilot chute complication in 5. Parachute failure wasn't listed in any.
 
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PRCD

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Why don't you just take fixed wing flying lessons, @r32? Literally every other form of flying is safer than wingsuit. You WILL die flying wingsuit.