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

[skydiverek 56]

1.) Riggers - how many reserve repacks do you have?

1.) Riggers - how many SAVES do you have? I mean - how many times was the reserve (that you packed) deployed in an emergency?

[darnknit 0]

297 repacks

they are all saves, but, so far, only nine of them have been used.

pulling is cool. keep it in the skin

[stratostar 5]

265 repacks
45 saves
10 last season

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you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[jumper03 0]

31 repacks
5 saves

Scars remind us that the past is real

[timmyfitz 0]

85 repacks

5 saves

All 5 saves were me

[kenneth21441 0]

400 plus repacks

with 2 saves:
one being myself and the other at Bragg in 91 when some one got low into someones airspace when he was deploying.

Kenneth Potter
FAA Senior Parachute Rigger
Tactical Delivery Instructor (Jeddah, KSA)
FFL Gunsmith

[Tink1717 2]

55 repacks.
1 save...... So far.

Skydivers don't knock on Death's door. They ring the bell and runaway... It really pisses him off.
-The World Famous Tink. (I never heard of you either!!)
AA #2069 ASA#33 POPS#8808 Swooo 1717

[Kimblair13 0]

60 re-packs

1 save

[riggerrob 558]

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

[skyfreek 1]

61 packs
6 saves- 1 on video!
only 2 bottles bought.....=cheapos!

[rushmc 18]

142 packs
3 saves
one of the saves was me

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[koppel 3]

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...


...it lets me down.

[councilman24 36]

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'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[jumper03 0]

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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.

Scars remind us that the past is real

[johnny1488 1]

About 200 repacks and 2 saves. All last season.

Johnny
--"This ain't no book club, we're all gonna die!"
Mike Rome

[mark 103]

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I haven't got any booze - 4 were tandems (all TMs said "it was a working jump")...

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

Mark

[masterrig 1]

but since those cheapskates quit buying booze,

Rob Warner
CSPA Rigger B

[alexey 6]

1240 repacks (thanks for army :))
61 saves (4 mysel, 1 of them tandem)

Lexa

[Danne 0]

>300 repacks

~9 saves

To lazy to dig through my loggbooks for an accurate count right now.

/D

[smiler 0]

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?"

www.wingin-it.co.uk
Wingin' It wingsuit school

[darnknit 0]

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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.

pulling is cool. keep it in the skin

[meatbomb 0]

>150 repacks
3 saves (two me...)

I was walking around in a daze for quite a while after the first save that wasn't me...

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Swoopert, CS-Aiiiiiii!
Piccies

[JerryBaumchen 1,064]

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.

[littlejohn 0]

2 packs 1 save

death before dishonor

[mjosparky 3]

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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

My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals