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As I was watching Dave Barlia on Warren Miller's Cold Fusion, they followed it with a section of a wingsuit jumper somewhere in the Alps. I have seen Robert jumping from the same standalone rock - would this then be where longest freefalls are attained?

(Kurt Miller: at the time, 41 seconds)

How does terminal wall in Italy compare?

and the longest current BASE freefall?

Times at least twice that long have been recorded off of a certain fungi-shaped exit point. I remember wingsuit companies shooting for two minutes... I forget if they've hit that point yet.

on the ITW you can do 1 minute with no sweat...depends on your skill...

i heard rumors about 2:30 min flights from this
"funghi-shaped i dont know were it is" Exit...

Yeah its a different ball game in the dense air. I was reading the manual for the new alti-track and while explaining how they calculate SAS, it says a jumper that is falling at 62 m/sec at 12000 ft falls at 50m/sec at 4000 ft(all else being equal).

But still 2:30 is impressive(if the rumour is true and depending on how high the 'funghi shaped rock' is ) considering 150 secs is a struggle for most skydivers. So they don't fly in a straight line...but still.

Kris.

2:30 is theoretically possible there with a slow flight, but AFAIK nobody got that yet.

The longest is probably still a summer '03 flight off the 'shroom at 1950m/4.3km, a bit over 2 minutes. Available altitude bottoms out at 2150m at 5km distance.

Since then a few other mountains yielded 2min flights.

ITW is small (1200m), giving a bit over 1 minute.

Longest tracking suit freefalls are in Norway, 50sec range (and probably closing in on 1min now).

bsbd!

Yuri.