Interesting, how help could reach people in the hills

[petectid]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-54331994

[jmarkb]

..except if it is windy, foggy or dark!

[al78]

..except if it is windy, foggy or dark!

Why would it not work if it is foggy or dark? If you know the location of the person in distress, you can try and locate them no matter what the visibility. They will try to get to them on foot and have to find them currently, looks like the jet suit has the potential to do that an awful lot quicker, at the very least in weather conditions that aren't too bad for it to be usable.

High winds might be a problem, but just because something isn't 100% perfect, doesn't make it useless so shouldn't be discarded on that basis.

[jmarkb]

I may be wrong, but I don't think you would want to fly one of those without decent visibility. Same problem as helicopters without instruments - very easy to lose track of which way is up, which can rapidly end badly.....

I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful sometimes for MR (same as with drones).

[MaximusGreatest]

I may be wrong, but I don't think you would want to fly one of those without decent visibility. Same problem as helicopters without instruments - very easy to lose track of which way is up, which can rapidly end badly.....

I'm not saying it wouldn't be useful sometimes for MR (same as with drones).

yeah i agree, decent visibility is important for safety.

[Sgurr]

Someone suggested it would make possible bagging the sea stacks off St. Kilda, and therefore letting us complete the Marilyns. I suspect it would be cheating. Was trying to discuss it with husband. He said he absolutely wouldn't be interested. "You don't know what's in it." "You would be in it.!" "WHAT!" Turns out he mis-heard Power suit and thought I was talking about POWER SOUP.

[Marty_JG]

One of the vloggers I follow had a random encounter with the test flight.

[Caberfeidh]

I bet they wear a Go-Pro type camera with that too. Yet another nightmare scenario where I am disturbed, filmed and shown to a hysterical jeering audience the world over, caught squatting behind a rock with my trousers around my ankles, clutching a bogroll and taking my natural ease... As if Bill Oddie and his naturewatch programmes weren't bad enough.

[Caberfeidh]

National Humiliation Awaits...

[al78]

I bet they wear a Go-Pro type camera with that too. Yet another nightmare scenario where I am disturbed, filmed and shown to a hysterical jeering audience the world over, caught squatting behind a rock with my trousers around my ankles, clutching a bogroll and taking my natural ease... As if Bill Oddie and his naturewatch programmes weren't bad enough.

[Caberfeidh]

Someone suggested it would make possible bagging the sea stacks off St. Kilda, and therefore letting us complete the Marilyns. I suspect it would be cheating. Was trying to discuss it with husband. He said he absolutely wouldn't be interested. "You don't know what's in it." "You would be in it.!" "WHAT!" Turns out he mis-heard Power suit and thought I was talking about POWER SOUP.

That gives me an idea... Power Soup, a magical potion to endow the hiker with unlimited powers to climb hills all day; a sort of energy drink with broth-like nurishment. Red Bull with chunky goodness. The Doorway-dossing gentlemen of Glasgow refer to Special Brew as Electric Soup, maybe this is an indicator of what may become of hikers who become dependent on Power Soup...down on their luck, they beg for change to buy another fix of Power Soup...

Bonnington has really let himself go...

[Sgurr]

Bonnington has really let himself go