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Riggers - how many reserve REPACKS and SAVES do you have?

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3,300 total emergency parachutes packed, including:
900+ pilot emergency parachutes
60 chest
306 seat packs
205 repacks last year
saved myself 4 times
3 or 4 saves last year, but since those cheapskates quit buying booze, I no longer have an accurate count of saves.

Rob Warner
CSPA Rigger B

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70 Repacks

7 Saves (#2 was me :)one guy chopped both his rigs in one week.

It took me a week to get over the first save. Couldn't shake the feeling of "what if it hadn't worked.....??" Anyone else go through that when they started packing reserves?
I like my canopy...


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1052 Inspection and repacks.

I've lost track of saves. 20 or 25 I think.

I had enough booze so I started asking for food, especially from the women. Brownies, cookies, etc.;)



I haven't got any booze - 4 were tandems (all TMs said "it was a working jump") and one was a student.
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600+ repacks, 13 saves that I know about.

#1 took me out for dinner after, all the rest have got me anything from a drink in the bar to a bottle of Baileys and some chocolate! Except for one who said "I paid you when you packed it, didn't I?"
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I haven't got any booze - 4 were tandems (all TMs said "it was a working jump")...

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So a "working jump" entitles someone to be ungrateful? Jeez!

Mark



when it's a work jump the ground becomes much softer, thus making a reserve "superfluous". the TI prolly just wanted to prove he knew what those handles do.

blue stuff,
p.j.


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Total repacks? Don't know as one logbook has been lost. A guess would be 200 - 300.

Saves: Probably about 20+ with most being me; was trying to learn a proper packing method on a main canopy I had built for myself. After about 5-6 cutaways I figured it all out.

Re: "I paid you when you packed it, didn't I?" I am thinking that there would be a surcharge on that dude the next time around.

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31 repacks
5 saves



That’s a pretty high ratio. Maybe you should offer to pack their main also.:)
And I agree with Terry, “Inspection and repacks.”

Myself, a little over 500, 8 saves that I know of. My first and my last were me.

Sparky
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