news 19.05.12: In memory of MARKUS WYLER
The very sad message got to us, that Markus had a BASE jumper accident in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. During a Wingsuit flight from ViaFerata (Mürren) he didn't open the parachute and died after impact. We regret deeply the loss of a very good friend and express our deepest sympathy to his family.

news 28.04.12: Oliver held the first Wingsuit Work-Shop together with other load organizers on the Skydive Switzerland DropZone in Reichenbach. After the registration and briefing all participators did one performance distance flight. Thanks to FlySight for the GPS units support and Paralog for the "test event" setup. During the second jump run the wind (Föhn) picked up and it was not save to skydive. So the dozed wingsuit pilots landed within the Caravan aircraft and the event had to be cancelled as the weather forecast was not promising. Still the famous “raffle” with good prices was done and the theory about Flock-Diving was given in the afternoon.

news 12.04.12: During the Porsche Sport Driving Day everybody had a happy smiley face :-) Because all participants could drive different Porsche models on the famous "L'Anneau du Rhin" race track. It was incredible fun to test out the new 911 Carrera cars and impressive to feel the power of these luxury street vehicles. Afterwards a skill driving route was organized to experience a ride on difficult surfaces. In the end we had the opportunity to do some co-pilot laps with a professional driver. This driver brought up the engine to high RPM, side slipped in turns and the smoked up the tires!

news 06.04.12: Easter time … fun time, therefore Oliver organized the BASE refresher 2012 with many of his x-students on “Good Friday”! During this day the jumpers shared their experience from previous happenings and they got prepared for the next jumps by Oliver’s instruction of aerial dives, exit technics, flying with different jump suits and new equipment. All participants trained on several BASE exits in the Lauterbrunnen Valley and are well prepared for the coming season.

news 11.03.12: Oliver taught an exclusive BASE jumper course to a new student during four days. First he was declared the theory part and leaned how to pack correctly his BASE parachute. Afterwards the student went through the intensive ground training before they made some bridge jumps! Finally he graduated his course after many high altitude cliff dives in Lauterbrunnen. Congratulation!

news 10.03.12: On a freezing March morning Oliver and David climbed the local antenna and made a nice „early bird“ jump. With the full moon in the back ground it was perfect to climb up the 188 Meter object. On top they enjoyed a unique sunrise view and BASE jumped down afterwards.

news 04.03.2012: The PULSEteam visited the new indoor skydive arena centre in Prague and got coached by „Ramsy”. Each participant flow over one hour and could very much benefit from the experience of the coach and the local instructors. Thanks to the size of the wind tunnel, it was easy to fly figures together and everybody had a lot of fun.

news 28.02.12: After a dozen working hours cutting “Oliver’s Poltertag” video, it’s finally completed. Have fun watching all details - how he had to compete against his colleagues in different adventures and participate a BASE warm-up jump. A heavy hangover and some “war-wounds” were the only things that remained the next day!

news 12.02.12: on a bitterly cold Sunday morning, a few "BASE jumpers' colleagues made their way into the snow-capped Switzerland mountains. Thanks to the temporary crafted ramp at the Mürren "High Ultimate" it was easily to exit, but the jumps where icy cold.

news 01.01.12: HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! The "Furrer's" celebrated their New Year’s Eve at the Burj Khalifa tower watching the high fireworks. Afterwards they exercised different new indoor skydiving wind tunnel moves together with Aish Yadav. He coached to the couple the advanced body flying techniques perfectly and thanks to all the iFly Dubai Staff members for the professional support during the flight sessions.

news 30.12.11: With the motivation to surf over the Dubai Palm, Oliver carried his Skyboard all the way from Europe to Middle East. He was shocked to hear that the Skydive Dubai policy and the snooty Staff prohibited him to skysurf, even his equipment passed the FAI / USPA criteria. Sadly to say - this is the only DropZone on the world where this nice air sport is not allowed! Luckily Oliver and Corinne could do a fun-freefly skydive after a mediatory, low "hop & pop" jump!

news 29.12.11: It was difficult to find the desert DropZone, but once we arrived, the Skydive Dubai 2 Staff gave us a warm and friendly welcome. Only a small limited jumps where possible during one day, due to priority of the local team training and weather conditions. Also exiting the plane at 12'000 feet altitude was a strange feeling, knowing there are only sand dunes below.

news 26.11.11: On the way to the honeymoon week, Corinne was giving Oliver a pilot chute assist at the Salginatobel bridge. The 93 meter tall object is perfect to jump, but the landing is very difficult in between the big rocks, trees and the river! Nevertheless it was fun and a good experience as married couple!

 news 11.11.11: Just married !!! Corrine Batt and Oliver Furrer had an exclusive wedding at the Bümplitz, Bern castle. After the official ceremony they got picked up by a silver Rolls-Royce car and Mr. & Ms. Furrer drove to the lunch party. It was a perfect day (and date) to get married!

news 29.10.11: Two weeks before the wedding from Corinne and Oliver, they celebrated independent their „Polterday’s“. Oliver was faced with many different sports activities like “Barefoot Water Skiing, Motocross Race, Orientation Run”, etc. Beside the “Striptease Dance” the high light was Paintball shooting at night time! On the other side Corinne was having a Hawaiian style party with her friends and she had to do some sales games. The luxury limousine car transported the girls between all different locations! Fun, fun, fun…

news 15.10.11: Happy Birthday Corinne! To celebrate this day, we enjoyed the great scenery over the Swiss Alps and rushed with 250km/h head down through the sky. Afterwards we relaxed at the outdoor pool at Grindelwand and tasty a romantic dinner.

news 25.09.11: At the airport Thun the charity event "Bewegung bewegt" happened for disabled people. Thanks to the great organization over 500 people could fly within the Antanov 2 Bi-Plane during several specific weekends. A troop of parachutes closed the inducement with a spectacular demonstration jump.

news 17.09.11: The ProBASE wingsuit race 2011 was hold at Stechelberg in the Lauterbrunnen valley, Switzerland. It was the final season event of the BASE jumping World tour with 25 athletes from different countries. Oliver ranked 5th after 3 qualifying rounds but he dropped out of the competition due to personal reasons.

news 28.08.11: Oliver won the "Wings over Gransee" competition and proved that the new Apache Tonysuits has the best performance overall. In the three disciplines (distance, time & speed) the 18 participators flow there wingsuits as good as possible. Everybody used the FlySight GPS and thanks to the Paralog software all measurement could be exactly evaluated. On the final round, Oliver managed after the steep dive to climb within his wingsuit for 4 second – congratulation!