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Hi All,

I would like to share with you some very good news we received last week in Finland. In Finland for last 25 years BASE jumping has been treated as "illegal skydiving" so that there has been an aviation regulation that states that "parachuting is only allowed from aircrafts". When Finnish BASE Association was formed about 8 years ago one of the major goals set to the association was to change that regulation. I personally started to work on that project by discussing with the authorities about 4 years ago and with the support from the whole (small but active) BASE scene in Finland last week we achieved our target. As the new OPSM6-1 regulation (which regulates sport parachuting in Finland) was published last week it now defines that the regulation is only applicable in parachute jumps conducted out of aircrafts. Therefore BASE jumping is now longer regulated by that regulation and BASE is treated as non regulated sport. This achievement is obviously a big step for us as this gives us possibility to ask permissions to jump objects otherways not accessible, arrange events, do demo jumps, you name it and above all to jump without the fear of losing your skydiving / private pilot license.

Looking forwards on the first international finnish crane boogie, hopefully somewhere next year. :)

Nice work! Congrats :)

Hienosta uutisia!

KOTIIN tulen kohta.

thanks for this work,

as a member of Finnish BASE association,
its an relief to know,upon return to my home,
this important ground work has been achieved!
thanks for this work. its a big step


let the Nordic tour of BASE bring competitors world wide,as I can see the future clearer now

FUCK THE FINNS!!!!!!!! =D

nice!

Markus - congrads mate, that's a huge accomplishment...well done. One small step further to making BASE more of a positive activity rather than negative in the public eye.

Hoping to make it back to Helsinki next summer.......say hi to the crew for me.

Big thanx to Markus (Maretus) for that !!!
He have worked with this many many years ...a lot !!!

-Tony Vilko-

FTF

Outstamding work, and thanks for your patience! Tasks such as these seem very simple but often take a very long time when government agencies are involved and the objective requires those agencies to change their minds about something.

I had the same thing happen in the US except completely different.

In the US, Federal Aviation Regulation Part 105 explicitly defines a parachute "drop" or "jump" under its jurisdiction as one made "from an aircraft in flight."

Nevertheless, when I was the "jump tech" on an IMAX movie that had a BASE jump in it, the FAA guy responsible for regulating the helicopter flying down a Denver street decided that the BASE jumpers (Felix B. and me) had to have USPA PRO ratings to jump in such a congested area.

This threatened to halt the entire shoot because I had one but Felix didn't -- and there was no time to get one before the shoot.

So I left a message for the FAA guy saying that in 20+ years not one FAA official had ever once even suggested that BASE jumping was covered by Part 105, but that if he insisted on so doing, I was curious to know how he was going to explain the absence of that "aircraft in flight" part to his superiors.

FAA Dude never called me back, but the location manager told me the guy called him and said, "You're all clear. No Pro rating needed. Forget I said that."

So we can beat these peeps, even at their own game; we just have to, as you demonstrated in Finland, do our homework and be patient.

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As an over the hill non jumper but regular base watcher with Finn in me, good work!

 
Woohoo! Thanks so much to the people who made it happen. Especially Markus, good job dude! Of course the actual work was done over the past years but now its official. I predict not a lot will change in our small scene here but atleast now we have the possibility to do "public" stuff as well, if we want to.

I'll drink to that. Fuck the Finns!

Kerkko
BASE1184 (tracking God of BASE Finland, Helsinki East division)

Congrats....

BASE1357

Nicely done boys!

Good work Bro!

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Thanks for the good work Markus. There were some battles lost, but you won the war :)

V