eli5 if a wingsuit allows you fly, why do you still need a parachute? couldn’t you glide to a landing?

Question

Why can’t you just slowly bleed off speed and just land like a flying squirrel or other animals that glide? Why do you need a parachute?

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Answer 1

Wingsuits DO NOT enable you to fly. Repeat after Woody

Wingsuits enable you “to fall with style” still really fast and to your death or a paraplegic life (if you don’t prepare a bunch of cardboard boxes to crash land into,some youtube guy did a video on not using a parachute to fall slowly to earth)