Some people love to talk themselves clever off the top of their heads.In response "itchimaru", and "he ain't flying, he is descending"....Yves Rossy Climbs. Has four micro jet engines strapped under his wing. Each provide 50 lbs of thrust.He is an ex military fighter jet pilot. and employed as a civil airliner pilot.He drops out of a plane because he cannot carry enough fuel to take off from a dolly or fly the distance from an airfield..And lastly, what really galled me was the quote from the latter respondent about living a quiet life.It seems you only exist because your parents had sex and now you blame them because you have to wait so you can die the slow, lingering and scary way. I drew images of a person who is unproductive, a social sheep, someone who can never be anything but a pawn on a chessboard. A man on a lead who's only pleasure to others will be pushing up daisy's. :(.By God. I am so happy to of achieved the things I have. It makes me feel so sad for those who never really lived.

You can clearly see him ascending in this video, he has also flown over the Grand Canyon as well as the English Channel in earlier flights! If he was just falling from the  sky at normal velocity he would not have got very far but with jets strapped  on and just going down I don't think the parachute would even work it would probably just rip off Yves back.

This is an awesome video. I liked the show where he flew over the Christ the Redeemer statue. Really nice and I will post to FB.