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QuoteQuoteWhat if you break your left arm?
You can deploy your main with your right arm.
You can also deploy your reserve with your right arm and of course cut away your main with the left. I think there are examples of people that have done one armed emergency procedures for different reasons.
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What if you break both arms?...
If you're able to you could try to loose your right shoe and pull with your foot. Also you could try pulling with your hands anyway (if you broke lower arm pulling the RSL might be an idea). I don't say you're in an easily solved situation, but I don't think that there are other options for you to deploy something.
Besides that is a situation where an AAD comes handy (I think that those who argue against the use of it will tell that if you break both your arms you sholdn't go skydiving...)
dragon2 0
Oh well, I was under a reserve at 1700 ft, low enough for me. But I didn´t try to fix the spin. Thought it was spinning too hard, anyway... And with the triple risers I have, i´m positive I don´t want to have to fish around to pull the slider down over loose brakes/riser bits while being low and over cornfields.
Thanx to myself, I found my freebag, and thanx to a guy working in his garden (I landed next to him) and to the jumper coming to pick me up, we found my main (I never saw it after cutting away). No damage to me or my stuff, so, YAY, everything's good.....
I just really hate corn!!!
ciel bleu,
Saskia
JohnMitchell 14
billvon 2,384
>around to pull the slider down over loose brakes/riser bits while being low
>and over cornfields.
You know that you don't have to pull the slider down to land safely, right? You can ditch that if time is short.
dragon2 0
Quote>And with the triple risers I have, i´m positive I don´t want to have to fish
>around to pull the slider down over loose brakes/riser bits while being low
>and over cornfields.
You know that you don't have to pull the slider down to land safely, right? You can ditch that if time is short.
With triple risers? Dunno about that..... Also, my slider has a tendency to come down by itself if I don´t pull it down, usually at about 300 ft, and usually more on the right side It did that 3 times already
Okay of course if I HAVE to, I´ll land like that, but I´d rather not.
Besides, so far I´ve heard that
- in linetwists, leave your brakes alone it´ll make the situation worse
- in linetwists, pull the other brake
- in linetwists, it won´t make a diffference because the brakelines are twisted up anyway.
I just chopped...
ciel bleu,
Saskia
dragon2 0
QuoteWendy, do you really have 8 reserve rides in 1300 jumps? You need to kick your packer's A@#! I thought I was doing bad with one every 380 jumps or so.
Then how ´bout my 4 in 580 jumps ?!
Beat that!
ciel bleu,
Saskia
wmw999 2,117
Some of us are just lucky
Wendy W.
JohnMitchell 14
Well, at least we are all really good at our emergency procedures.
JohnMitchell 14
Beat that!
-- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." --
ZoneRat 0
QuoteBTW a great confidence builder is to get a hold of Relative Workshop's intentional cutaway rig, the one they use to demo the Skyhook. Go up and do an actual cutaway; there's nothing like a real cutaway to get your confidence up.
I tried this rig at Skyfest and couldn't agree more. It's nice knowing for certain that the cuttaway proceedure feels and acts just like I'd visualized.
It was also interesting that while I'd planned to not pull the reserve cable... just letting the skyhook do it's thing while I palmed it... when it came time to initiate the cuttaway, I found myself with both handles in my hands.
What you train, not just plan, is what you do.
Evelyn 0
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Then how ´bout my 4 in 580 jumps ?!
Beat that!
Yesterday I was jumping with a guy who had just under a hundred jumps and on our second jump he had a cutaway. I was all concerned about him and asked if he was okay. He was fine, didn't seem shook up at all. I asked him if this was his first cutaway and he said no, he's had a few others. Anyway, he got another rig from the gear shop, packed, and we went up for another jump. When we landed he was under his reserve again. He went to the gear shop to get another rig but they were out of something his size, otherwise he would have gone right back up and jumped again. We were talking to a coach about the possible cause of his line twists and spinning (same thing, both times) and it seems that he may have been dipping his shoulder at deployment causing the d-bag to spin. Since I've never had a reserve deployment it was reassuring for me to see someone with not just one, but two in a row react so calmly. He even saved both handles on the second one. He assured me that when the time comes you just do what you have to do.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing ~ Helen Keller
I'm not an instructor, or coach (however it is a personal goal of mine) but I have the utmost faith in everyones ability to save thier own life when the time comes. That is, as long as they don't take thier luck for granted, and they continue to practice the drills.
Blue skies,
Darren
> the left side of the harness?
Yes. This thinking is extended into tandem systems, where careful consideration is given to being able to release the drouge/open the reserve if one of your arms is grabbed by a panicked student.
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