If she has no reliable way of knowing if she could fly, would anyone with common sense jump off the branch and into the sky like that? A fall like that would obviously kill her if she couldn't fly and she has no idea if her nerve gear will kill her or not if she dies.
No sane person would take that risk. We in a meta sense might take that risk but for a character in the story it would be suicidal and with good reason.
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