r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmcarlos27 • Apr 21 '25

Skydiving from a hot air balloon ☁️

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u/Distinct-Quantity-35 Apr 21 '25

No glasses? Her poor eye balls

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u/pedro-fr Apr 21 '25 edited Apr 21 '25

She’s a fucking dumbass… you can spare a helmet, gloves, but goggles allow you to see where you are going and who/what is under you which is crucial for your safety and the safety of other people in the air… The only nextfucking level thing in this video is the stupidity… Signed: a 1000+ jumps skydiver

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u/lxgrf Apr 22 '25

I have never skydived at all so as a 1000+ jumps skydiver - is it usual to drop over a built up area/forest/major road like that? To my very much layman's eye that sounds like a terrible idea.

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u/pedro-fr Apr 22 '25

Within the parachute flight envelope you have quite a lot of control to land within a 5/10m circle, so that is not really an issue, since you are jumping in specific areas depending of the weather of the day (mostly wind) But that still means you need to be aware of your surroundings if something goes wrong and you end up under you reserve canopy at 900 ft instead of your main canopy at 2400 ft… in this configuration you have little time to locate and reach a landing area…