I experienced a bad line over on my main that quickly started to spin to my left, made a good solid attempt to clear it with rear riser looked at unstowing the toggles but decided to cutaway knowing that hard spinning canopy’s rarely gets better. The spin of the canopy left me in a left hand spin as I re-enterd free fall but arched and stayed belly to earth. Pulled my reserve handle (I also had my rsl hooked up). Immediately after reserve opend I began a very hard turn in the opposite direction, which surprised me because I was anticipating possible line twist due to deploying in a spin. I looked up in amazement as to why I was turning and starting to dive under reserve. There were tension knots in my d lines high up towards the canopy. I immediately started countering the spin with rear risers and harness to at least attempt to slow it down and keep it flying the entire back right part of the canopy was very un- inflated looking. I was hesitant at unstowing the toggles as I feared in doing so may very well cause the canopy to get line twist (just my instinct at the time) . I pulled very hard on the rear right riser (and let go quickly) while still staying consistent on the left/ leans in harness. The canopy did not react well to this and the entire right side became very uniflated and collapsed looking. This made me even more hesitant to unstow the breaks. Tried pulling both rear risers at the same time a couple times with no luck and eventually went inwards with both risers and outwards quick and hard and that’s when I saw the lines spread apart very quickly and the knot dissaper and felt the dive and turn recover. I was at just below 2k by this point ( glad I had pulled a little higher than normal on this particular jump). Unfortunately my go pro was on the quick picture setting and non wide angle lens but have edited the video and it’s gives a pretty clear idea of this situation.
Gear info infinity northern light 3 model . Main canopy 168 lpv pilot
Reserve canopy 150 tempo repacked ( not from cutaway couple months ago) my rig also had an rsl. Smaller reserve inst ideal but and very confident and consistent with landings / inducing speed on my 168.
My question is has anyone heard/ seen or experienced anything like this?
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I experienced a bad line over on my main that quickly started to spin to my left, made a good solid attempt to clear it with rear riser looked at unstowing the toggles but decided to cutaway knowing that hard spinning canopy’s rarely gets better. The spin of the canopy left me in a left hand spin as I re-enterd free fall but arched and stayed belly to earth. Pulled my reserve handle (I also had my rsl hooked up). Immediately after reserve opend I began a very hard turn in the opposite direction, which surprised me because I was anticipating possible line twist due to deploying in a spin. I looked up in amazement as to why I was turning and starting to dive under reserve. There were tension knots in my d lines high up towards the canopy. I immediately started countering the spin with rear risers and harness to at least attempt to slow it down and keep it flying the entire back right part of the canopy was very un- inflated looking. I was hesitant at unstowing the toggles as I feared in doing so may very well cause the canopy to get line twist (just my instinct at the time) . I pulled very hard on the rear right riser (and let go quickly) while still staying consistent on the left/ leans in harness. The canopy did not react well to this and the entire right side became very uniflated and collapsed looking. This made me even more hesitant to unstow the breaks. Tried pulling both rear risers at the same time a couple times with no luck and eventually went inwards with both risers and outwards quick and hard and that’s when I saw the lines spread apart very quickly and the knot dissaper and felt the dive and turn recover. I was at just below 2k by this point ( glad I had pulled a little higher than normal on this particular jump). Unfortunately my go pro was on the quick picture setting and non wide angle lens but have edited the video and it’s gives a pretty clear idea of this situation.
Gear info infinity northern light 3 model . Main canopy 168 lpv pilot
Reserve canopy 150 tempo repacked ( not from cutaway couple months ago) my rig also had an rsl. Smaller reserve inst ideal but and very confident and consistent with landings / inducing speed on my 168.
My question is has anyone heard/ seen or experienced anything like this?
can’t figure out how to post pictures or videos on here.
This was my 401st jump with no prior cutaways.
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