Re: [sinjin] Fatality Lauterbrunnen 07/07/2011
Ive already heard several incidents with (often lesser experienced) basejumpers, jumping large-surface wingsuits and having unexpected turns and even rolls shortly after exit. A local jumper came back to the DZ to practice skydiving his wingsuit after several years of only doing base, due to 3 seperate exits where he ended up on his back and flying the wrong direction when he transitioned from exit to full flight.
On a skydive these suits also are noticably more prone to suffer unexpected turns and dives after only minor instability or asymmetry in body position.
Be it by asymmetry or burbles from another jumper, these large-surface area suits (venom, Xbird, Apache, Manta) handle like trucks compared to smaller wingsuits. And recovery and instability is for sure a larger problem compared to normal sized wingsuit models.
