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Never seen an A like this before. Instead of 3 attachment points, there is 6. Looks like you would have to exit from the point of the triangle instead of the face. Anyone have experience on these? I have never jumped from the corner of the steel. I have exited from ice sheilds before once. I couldn't really tell if there was any type of platform up top. If there is, it must be small.

Yes, I have. I only would static line it because of how low the tower was, and I only did it once. Mine was a peg climb that was on one of the pointy sides and thats what I exited off of, but if the landing wasnt on that side, not really sure what I would have done.

I have a bit from the last state I lived in. Not too much of a problem. It was usually an inside climb with no ladder on the towers in Louisiana I had like this.

From my experience there were no ice shields (in Louisiana of course). They would typically be 500' tall, and I could only climb to 300' thru 350' depending on the tower height. This was because the tower started to taper at this height to something too narrow for a person and a rig (and I am too big of a pussy to climb the outside).

I posted in the below thread about such objects a while back.

http://www.basejumper.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2933513;page=unread#unread

Interesting. Thanks for the link. The tower I posted looks different than the one vid666 posted, but could be just strange angles screwing with me. So when you exited yours, did you have to climb outside and balance on the point of the triangle somehow? This is tower is about 850' and I am pretty excited about it, so I hope it isn't too bad to exit.

I've jumped one exactly like it, wire attached to the face, exiting from a platform into the corner. Totally sucked and I wouldn't do it again. I think this particular tower was built in the late 50's and the ladder was funky too. Narrower than normal and the steps were farther apart.

unless it's right in the middle of downtown on the river by the football stadium its probably not worth it

ill go first ive already got a great name picked out!

A bit of off topic, but curious, did anyone jump A's like this? With only a 90-degree corridor?


edit: fixed link

That puppy looks insulated...

It is.. but it's also 90 years old and was abandoned a loong time ago. And it never was an AM antenna, just an FM transmitter at the top. It's also pretty high- 720 ft.

sorry for the hijack, but i have a similar question on this A, what the hell is on top of that thing?

Looks quite nice, unusual with the four angles instead of three, but if you choose optimum conditions it should be sweet, 720', very nice,.... like all BASE objects it has it's own particular characteristics. If in doubt, pick optimum conditions, in this case that would be a nice tail wind, splitting the wires,...Yahoo! ....can't go wrong? anything else and you are increasing your risks, but those are the decisions you make, it's as safe or dangerous as you make it, but under the best conditions there could be no safer jump. All fixed object jumps have their own set of criteria, recognising that and taking it in to account is part of the beauty of our sport. Have fun, can I come and play? regards, B.

i wouldnt jump into a slot like that, but thats just me.

we decide our own levels of involvement

90% of the A's in SA are a 90Deg setup.

I prefer a positive downwind and sometimes don't jump if the wind is down the wire, but only if the wind speed is too high.

I've had a bunch of 90 off headings and it's easy enough to correct in time.

Go for it.

I feel confident that (fairly) simple math would show that exiting from 720' in a 90 degree quadrant will put you further from a wire than jumping a 120 degree sector from 350'.

This assumes the same, decent, push off both.

neglecting subterminal tracking or tailwind effects (which will only help my case) and using a 10 ft/s exit velocity:

taking a 2 second delay into a 120 degree sector will put you 17 feet from the plane of the wires.

taking a 5 second delay into a 90 degree quadrant will put you 35 feet from the plane of the wires.

more than double...

I realize that there are a lot more things to consider about the jump than just distance from the wires.

If only I was a base jumper

Bravo!

clicky

About 7min and 20sec you get a really good shot of it.

That was actually another A in a completely different part of Russia, that one is 1100 ft

Well I was just saying that people are jumping these A's with Four sets of guy wires...

...that's all. I didn't mean that the A is that specific one.

Dig that video..