Is it a BASE Jump or not?

[ditch9276]

If you're passenger on a paragliding flight and release and jump at 400ft from your tandem pilot, is this a BASE Jump for the categorie other or wasn't it a BASE Jump. Cause the Objekt wasn't a fixed one, its moveable! I think its just a skydive, a low one but a skydive, cause I left from another flying thing.

Am I right or not?

Greetz

[spinerugo]

Paraglider is a "soft wing" glider, so it is a skydive.

[Mac]

I have had this discussion many times with a few friends, just to while away time over a beer, about the concept of BASE and Low Altitude parachute deployments. Some people have said that a low altitude parachute deployment with a single parachute system from anything (ie balloons, paraglider cutaways, even aircraft) in their eyes is a BASE jump - to me, I believe that you must jump from a "fixed" object to call it a BASE jump and all others are just low altitude parachute deployment jumps. I guess that could be deemed purist and argue that BASE is all about jumping from fixed objects and all else is not BASE, but in the end I can see that a low altitude parachute deployment with a single container system is in the same ball park as fixed object jumping, more so than skydiving is and people still think that is similar.....in the end as long as your having fun who gives a $hit............ groundrush is groundrush, and smiles are smiles, no matter how you got into the air in the first place................ just enjoy it, have fun with it and smile with it.

[SabreDave2]

NO! I would vote a serious no as a BASE jump. If it is not anchored in some way to mother earth then it is not a BASE jump.
A paraglider is an aircraft making a jump off of one a skydive or parachute jump. If low alti was a factor then all those sorry bastards in the military static-lining crappy rounds from 400ft. would all be BASE jumpers...no?!?!
Yo
Dave

[Mac]

making a jump off of one a skydive or parachute jump.

to me a skydive is something with a dual parachute system with available height to be able to deply a reserve,with a moving aircraft, and with no possible fixed object hazzard on opening. A parachute jump to me is anyone that needs a parachute to stop them from going in. A cutaway from a paraglider with a single parachute system and low opening, to me is not a skydive, and it is also not a BASE jump, it is a low altitude parachute deployment. The military jumpers jumping from 400ft also are not skydivers and are not BASE jumpers, they are again just low altitude parachute deployers.............

To me it fits the following:

1) Jumping from a fixed object - BASE jumper
2) Jumping from something with a single parachute system - parachute deployment scientist
3) Jumping from something with a single parachute system with restricted height - low altitude parachute deployment scientist
4) jumping from something with a dual parachute with enough height to deploy the reserve and without any fixed hazzards in the deployment or normal high flight area - skydive

[Tom Aiello]

It's a fun jump. Beyond that, who cares?

I have been firmly informed that the McCutaway style jump I've done a few times is not a BASE jump because you don't leave the object with your canopy packed, and because when you cut away, you aren't leaving an object.

[M8tricks]

BASE is an acronym that describes the 4 types of object you could exit from right?
So if you can find a description for the type of object that starts with one of the letters in the word BASE then its a BASE jump.
It is therefore obvious that if you jump off a paraglider at 400' that you are doing a BASE jump. i'm just not sure which of the four types of object you would say you jumped from. My guess would be A because you were probably attached to some Asshole who was flying the paraglider.

[davo]

Some of the guys doing this regularly are calling it a single parachute skydive when they get off paragliders.

[davo]

What about cutaway jumps, after a tow or cliff launch?

[M8tricks]

What if ya mate's a really earthy character called Cliff and you're standing on him, but Clifton here is standing on an antenna that is built up on the bridge of a boat and that ship is on top of a really tall building, technically you would have satisfied some part of all the requirements (Bridge, Antenna, Span, Cliff)

[M8tricks]

And if you're dressed as Ronald McDonald except without pants, and while you jump you continue vigorously scratching that itch you have that won't go away, even when you rub that cream that the doctor gave you on it? If you're jumping off a cliff what does that make you?

[JewBag]

its actually butt sex.

[M8tricks]

Explains the rash :|

[Boeris]

A paraglider is an aircraft making a jump off of one a skydive or parachute jump.

NO! I would vote a serious no to you sir, as a paraglider is not an aircraft. It's just a braced parachute that has a very high glide ratio.
As far as the topic of discussion goes, I would say it's a matter of opinion. I mean what's all this about O, are we to call it BASE-O? I've done a couple O jumps and totally plan on exiting off our tandem paraglider soon with my base rig, afterwards I will log it in my base logbook as an Other...only because I will be using my base rig. That's just my opinion, if someone else sees it differently, that's cool... log it how you want, enjoy it either way!

[rockhopper]

Not a BASE jump, it's a jump/skydive --- sky - dive, dive from the sky!

So what would you have called it if you had two parachutes?

What would you call it if you had two parachutes and jumped off a mountain?