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Greetings Chuck
You're one tough individual. We never did introduce ourselves afterward. I was the guy who gathered up your equipment and carried it back. Chris (kitof1976) was the other person.
I'll agree with you about the packing. After your reserve ride, I couldn't help but observe some interesting packing techniques used by the person I think packed your rig.
You were knocked pretty silly my friend. After you caught your breathe you started recovering quickly. I was happy to see you got back in the air right away.
This thread is a good one. A few things stand out in my mind.
1) Proper Pull altitude.
- You made a conscious decision to pull higher. Almost everyone goes through a low pull stage. I'm glad you're over that one.
2) Proper Packing Techniques.
- There is a certain amount of randomness involved when you toss a bunch of nylon in the air. It's best to stack the odds in your favor. After observing a few pack jobs, It's my opinion they were not stacked in your favor.
3) First Aid Training.
- Most of the time, a reserve ride is not that big a deal. It's exciting and can be scary but that's about it. In this instance, Chuck didn't move right away so we ran after him. It came apparent that he may need assistance. I'll be looking into a refresher course after I send this. It was a quick wake up call that currency is necessary in other areas, not just skydiving.
Hey Chuck, where does the chest strap sit when you're under canopy? You were slammed pretty hard but getting hit by the chest strap makes me wonder if your harness is a bit large or if the leg straps weren't tighted or maybe slipped.
What did you end up demoing?
You're one tough individual. We never did introduce ourselves afterward. I was the guy who gathered up your equipment and carried it back. Chris (kitof1976) was the other person.
I'll agree with you about the packing. After your reserve ride, I couldn't help but observe some interesting packing techniques used by the person I think packed your rig.
You were knocked pretty silly my friend. After you caught your breathe you started recovering quickly. I was happy to see you got back in the air right away.
This thread is a good one. A few things stand out in my mind.
1) Proper Pull altitude.
- You made a conscious decision to pull higher. Almost everyone goes through a low pull stage. I'm glad you're over that one.
2) Proper Packing Techniques.
- There is a certain amount of randomness involved when you toss a bunch of nylon in the air. It's best to stack the odds in your favor. After observing a few pack jobs, It's my opinion they were not stacked in your favor.
3) First Aid Training.
- Most of the time, a reserve ride is not that big a deal. It's exciting and can be scary but that's about it. In this instance, Chuck didn't move right away so we ran after him. It came apparent that he may need assistance. I'll be looking into a refresher course after I send this. It was a quick wake up call that currency is necessary in other areas, not just skydiving.
Hey Chuck, where does the chest strap sit when you're under canopy? You were slammed pretty hard but getting hit by the chest strap makes me wonder if your harness is a bit large or if the leg straps weren't tighted or maybe slipped.
What did you end up demoing?
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Good job! I had an opening 2 years ago that was so hard that it gave me whiplash and cracked my sternum, I didn't have a mal, but I did spend the rest of the canopy ride lapsing in and out of conciousness. If I'd had a mal, there is probably no way I could have responded in time, but an extra 1000 ft could have made the difference. There is nothing wrong with opening at 3000'.
John
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Quote2) Proper Packing Techniques.
- There is a certain amount of randomness involved when you toss a bunch of nylon in the air. It's best to stack the odds in your favor. After observing a few pack jobs, It's my opinion they were not stacked in your favor.
and this is why I don't use a packer...scares the crap out of me not knowing how my nylon is going into my bag....
Marc
otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman....
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I had a similar incident about 4 weeks ago. Pulled @ normal height (3000AGL). canopy came out of bag as normal and started to snivell as normall. All of a sudern it smashed open causing me to practically kick myself it the face (i aint that flexible either). Same thing, canopy began to spin so i took brakes off to see if that done anything but it never. I then noticed lines hanging over my shoulders along with lines swaying in the wind so i chopped it. On inspection of the canopy 3 of the front lines had snapped which in turn were all cascade lines.
crutch 0
Hey chuck, what can I say, good job, glad I could help you get back into the air! Yeah, I am not sure what was in the air at Dublin, but I ended up packing four reserves this weekend (mains were packed by four different people, no flaming of packers here), but....yours and the one on the rig I lent out were most definitely packing related. Take care!
very good post. I know that i'm a low timer but that is why i pull high. my instructors allways told me that the two things that you dont get back on a skydive are time and altitude. USE them to your advantage. also I aggree with everyone else as far as packing for myself goes when i pack i can be pretty sure that it will open the way i want. witch gives me a little more security at pull time
Pruitt
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So glad it worked out, my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your experience so we can learn from it
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thegman 0
Here another thought. Myself I usually have very good openings on my Pilot main. However I did once have a really hard opening that really tweaked out my neck and had me on the ground in real pain shortlly afterwards. I don't know that this was a packing issue, but it very well may have been. It could have also been a result of bad body position. However I sure as hell said something to the packer. I told him all about the hard opening and asked him if he had done anything unusual on my pack job. I guess the point is did you have any other strange openings with this partickular packer, and have there been alot of other complaints? 7 cutaways in a day?? sure does sound like alot for one day. Do you have any idea what the malfunctions were on these seven. Please don't tell me broken lines from hard openings.
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