Jan 3, 2010, 2:18 AM
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Not a terrible story for a local TV station. I loved this quote: "He has done a lot of jumps. He has been jumping for a year and he said this was his 26th."
Jan 3, 2010, 5:56 AM
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"Jumper lands in a tree during off-DZ landing; Whuffo press story has some inaccuracies." Not even sure this qualifies as an "Incident". Maybe a Safety & Training anecdote.
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Jan 3, 2010, 7:30 AM
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Re: [leewilcox] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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So, anyone have any factual further info regarding this?
- Premature AAD Fire? - AAD Brand & Type? - Further investigation or follow-up to take place as a result of the fire?
Looks like in the video, that the fire took place shortly after completion of a backloop. Can we get factual information regarding the actual AGL of that backloop, if it had anything at all to do with this, and the actual AAD fire/reserve deployment alt.?
Yeah, it's real interesting and funny - the perceptions of the whuffo media and all ("He's got a lot of jumps, and he's been doing this for a while... he's been jumping for more than a year, and he's got 26 jumps" ) - but it would be nice to know/learn/determine too, maybe a little more out of this one, where clearly we have the ability to as well.
Anyone got any of the more pertinent details perhaps, to all this?
Jan 3, 2010, 11:53 AM
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Re: [tombuch] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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Not a terrible story for a local TV station. I loved this quote: "He has done a lot of jumps. He has been jumping for a year and he said this was his 26th."
acording to the news article this was a night jump - of course that is not true either
St Mary's is not exactly a skydiving mecca, I figure that if the news media doesn't know you then you run a fairly good DZ otherwise they would have been there before and included those facts in the article
Jan 3, 2010, 11:17 PM
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Would the person who moved this thread from the Incidents forum to Safety and Training kindly explain the reason(s) for this move?
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Jan 3, 2010, 11:41 PM
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>Would the person who moved this thread from the Incidents forum to >Safety and Training kindly explain the reason(s) for this move?
The purpose of the Icidents forum is to report, discuss and learn from fatal and serious non-fatal incidents. This was neither fatal nor serious, and is more a safety issue.
Jan 4, 2010, 9:39 AM
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Re: [leewilcox] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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I'll give the kid some credit. Regardless of how the problem started he did a few things right.
1. He said he recognized at 1,500 feet he wasn't going to make it back to the airport and identified a "large" alternate landing area. At 26 jumps he didn't have the skill to land in it but good effort for trying to find an out. Sure he might have done it higher but 1,500 is better than 150 feet.
2. He followed appropriate "tree landing" procedures by protecting himself and holding onto a branch and waiting for help.
All in all pretty good from someone with 26 jumps. I wonder if this was his first jump as an A license holder? If so what a memorable one!
Jan 4, 2010, 12:26 PM
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Re: [Scrumpot] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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In the video you can see the reserve pin cover flap a couple times before the pilot chute comes out. Not knowing any better I'd guess the pin was partially dislodged and came out as the rig was shifted about in freefall. Useful tips that are irrelevant if I'm wrong but still good advice:
1) Check your reserve pin for proper seating. 2) Make sure you use a reserve ripcord with a correctly sized cable for the harness/container you are using 3) Try to jump a rig that has flaps that don't come open in freefall.
Jan 4, 2010, 8:03 PM
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Re: [champu] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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In the video you can see the reserve pin cover flap a couple times before the pilot chute comes out. Not knowing any better I'd guess the pin was partially dislodged and came out as the rig was shifted about in freefall. Useful tips that are irrelevant if I'm wrong but still good advice:
1) Check your reserve pin for proper seating. 2) Make sure you use a reserve ripcord with a correctly sized cable for the harness/container you are using 3) Try to jump a rig that has flaps that don't come open in freefall.
Ive jumped a borrowed rig that I had to be careful how much I arched, because the reserve ripcord was short enough that a good deep arch could have dislodged the pin.
Was a problem for me, not for the owner of the rig...
Jan 7, 2010, 5:54 AM
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According to the email sent out by the dz yesterday, his AAD was sent to a higher altitude than normal (dont know what brand, dont know what altitude), and it fired.
The email also made sure to point out that he was either going to land in that tree or the swamp. (I know the few times I jumped there I was really uncomfortable with landing out because of the lack of options.)
Jan 7, 2010, 3:01 PM
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Re: [amstalder] Non Injury Reserve Canopy Tree Landing, St. Marys, GA, USA, Jan 1, 2010
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Hi amstadler,
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his AAD was sent to a higher altitude than normal
Reminds me of a good friend of mine who used to jump with an ASTRA AAD. He forgot to turn it one & asked another jumper in the plane to turn it on for him.
Oops, he was open ~3500 ft on his reserve.
I only found out when he called to see if I had a new cutter in stock.
) - but it would be nice to know/learn/determine too, maybe a little more out of this one, where clearly we have the ability to as well. 
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