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You guys weren't the "Motley Crew" were you! Actually who is the guy with the tambourine around his neck, he looks very familiar to me?

Now that really brings back the memories of when I use to live at Kuranda many years ago, up at Black Mountain. They are spectacular falls when there is enough water going over them. Thanks for the memory

Sorry, but I have to ask mate, did he have a brother named Lex?

SPOT ON!

I'm sure that this investigation was so important to the travelling public that they just had to know the results of this freak accident and also when the same thing happens again the pilots will know now to just keep flying until they crash from fuel starvation or on landing because they just can't stop.I don't know about most people but I really don't want to see it coming, thanks.

Yes but they had to get the right pilot for the job. Job discription "BALLS OF STEEL" just in case the chute doesn't open and the pilot has to wheel it on, OUCH!

Ahg a Drifter on steroids a lot of fun!

That really did hit the spot great vid David!

Thanks Owen nice clip. It's what everyone should do if they can and that's fly around this great country of as ours as the diverse scenery we are blessed with here in OZ makes for wonderful memories that will last a life time. Rick-p

I really enjoyed watching a number of videos on the great Bob Hoover's flying exploits. He had the skills and presence of mind to make it work! Before I get into any comparisons on the present topic I will bite my tongue and leave the room quietly.

Further, the guy who flew recently with the Jet Pack on his back is a classic example of taking risks for the benefit of mankind but the only benefit to mankind when these fools jump of a mountain in a Batman suit is when they are no longer a strain on the taxpayers resources. In skydiving there are dangers but those dangers are controllable jumping of a mountain hoping that you don't twitch at the wrong time and change your trajectory in the wrong direction is purely and simply a death wish. I would say that whilst free falling in these jumps that you may have 10% control but the balance is 90% pure luck. in my view of course. You are constantly within metres of obstacles with absolutely no time to think or react when it all hits the fan. Anyway that's my two bob's worth and I don't wish to revist the topic as I know where I stand, on top of the mountain looking down on the red sploch below! Rick-p

If you really think about it, chalk and cheese wouldn't you agree!

Well I disagree, but we are all entitled to have an opinion, I rememeber a few years back watching a movie called Deer Hunter in which there were scenes where they were playing Russian Roulette and those guys jumping of mountains in Batman suits are in my view no different to the fool who would play Russian Roulette. As to them knowing the risk I doubt it as you need a brain to be knowing. As for training who's going to train them the one's who have gone before are all dead. To my way of thinking taking action in doing something and really having no idea if you are going to survive or not is different to an activity which is only inherently dangerous because of human error and has no matter how small a margin for error. What these flying fools have is not a skill it's no frontal lobe to even assess the danger. I'm not talking about parachuting off a mountain I'm talking about diving off a mountain and attempting guide yourself like a missile almost to the ground. Being an adrenalin feak and having a death wish are completely different, in my view. In what they do, the Batmen, the control they have over their destiny is miniscule only unlike all those other activities you referred to in your post, those thrill seekers are people who generally just get good old fashion enjoyment from what they do and for the best part they have complete and absolute control over their activity. It would be a boring old world if no one took risks but blatant disregard to their safety when the outcome is enevitable is certifiable. That is, at least, my opinion in the matter.

If they know what they are doing good luck to them. It's not the same as diving off a mountain and hoping you don't bounce off something before you deploy the chute and thereafter reach the ground. Those guys are death wish freaks these pilots are aerobatic proponents/ stunt pilots, skilled in their stunt. You can't tell me that the drunken pilot display is not dangerous look at what happend to Phil U but that's the risks one takes when they have to go that one step further to entertain the crowd. There are risks in every day activities but most of us assess the risks and if the activity undertaken is within you skill level then the activity for the best part is carried out without an adverse result.

Thanks, not bad, watched it cover to cover and didn't get bored. Some very nice aerial photography!

Sickening, great example for our children! If it would just prevent at least one child from trying something like the video shows I would support a total ban on the showing of such things on a public forum such as 'You Tube'. My two bob's worth for what it's worth. Rick-p

Good one Tomo!

He cheated he followed the track!

I don't know about that I thought that in early days Australia was a well know jingoistic nation just maybe the yanks learnt from us or our forefathers the British! Now there was a nation whose foundation was laid on jingoism.

Well in my book they are nothing more than death wish addicts. It doesn't take courage to do what they do it takes just complete stupidity and no respect for human life. Imagine if collided with that crowd of people at the end of the video it would be like a meteor hitting earth he would have possibly killed dozens of people and injured even more.

It was a good view except for the negative input at the begining by the commentator saying how dangerous and unreliable their engines were. I know that they were mainly Rotax 912's but lets face it they do have a some reliability. I would have been very annoyed if there were Jab motors present and he was making such disparaging remarks!

:clap:Very nice!

What next? It's a great idea but the way it was rolling around on the ground I don't think the human physique could withstand too much of that rock n roll, imagine the brain strain!

Good video!