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Teaching for 15 years. I've seen students, tandems and experienced jumpers cut away, some with the RSL, some without. None of them, RSL or not, ever deployed the reserve.
I think it goes without saying that the cut-a-ways without RSLs, of course would not deploy the reserve unless they were some kind of SOS system.
I think it goes without saying that the cut-a-ways without RSLs, of course would not deploy the reserve unless they were some kind of SOS system.
I saw a video on youtube where a guy got hungup on a cessna, the instructor was off course shouting, do not pull reserve, of course the guy did pull, without unhooking the rsl, and his reserve just missed the planes tail!
wolfriverjoe 1,340
QuoteI saw a video on youtube where a guy got hungup on a cessna, the instructor was off course shouting, do not pull reserve, of course the guy did pull, without unhooking the rsl, and his reserve just missed the planes tail!
That had nothing to do with the RSL. If it's the one I'm thinking of (Was the instructor screaming "Where's the hook knife?") it was a static line hang up.
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"~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo
Teaching for 15 years. I've seen students, tandems and experienced jumpers cut away, some with the RSL, some without. None of them, RSL or not, ever deployed the reserve. Two closest calls were:
1) guy who didn't realize what had happened, so he started walking back dragging the freebag behind him. We stopped him before he got the canopy out of the bag.
2) woman who got lifted off the ground by wind. She cut away after the second bounce. She landed on her butt, reserve fell out and the RPC started to dance around - but again, no deployment. The RPC could not drag the reserve across the ground.
That being said, I've heard a few credible stories of where an RSL did result in an actual reserve deployment due to cutaway on the ground - hence the 99/100 number. (Might be 96/100 or 97/100.)
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