First Reserve Ride -- Beer Jump

[MNM604 0]

Lodi, Ca. It was a great jump with my boyfriend, like it always is. I pulled at 3,500 k. Did my checks. Everything was great. Flew around a bit, then It went to shit. I went to spiral down like I always do and I must have pulled to hard because I went into a shit load of line twists and began spinning. I looked at my altimeter before I chopped and it was 1,500 feet. I knew I was not going to be able to get out of them. Pulled both handles as trianed (no rsl) and before I knew it my reserve opened and all I could think about was how fast it all happened. Ride down was actually fun and a bit faster than normal, and I slid in, as I was still a bit shaken. Boyfriend landed next to me and initially did not realize I had a cut-away (he was below me and in front at the time). Everyone at the DZ were great. They immediately went after my canopy and free bag, and everyone came to check on me. Of course I ended the day buying the beer and will have to wait for a repack before we jump again, but it will not be long. I want to truely thank everyone at Lodi who have been so friendly and helping with our continued learning of the sport. I also hope you all enjoyed the beer....

FYI: Canopy- Saber 120, Reserve- Raven 107
Cypress equipped, but no RSL.
63rd Jump. 5-2 105 lbs.

[Avion 0]

Congrats, way to go!

All I can say is that your response sounds perfect. You made a quick survey of the situation, and acted in a fast successful way.

Cheers

[sundevil777 99]

Realizing that it is possible to spin your canopy up into a malfunction is important to know, and also it is important to know that you must not do such agressive turns too low.

Good job saving yourself

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[Extrakt 0]

Glad your ok, sounds like you might need to read Brian Germains book - The Parachute and its pilot. The stuff on your G-loading under canopy might help prevent this in the future. Were you turning the other way before you started spiralling?

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[Superman32 0]

Congrats on the good decision and safe landing.
Just curious, what are you flying and what is you wingload?

Would a relative light WL of around 1:1 and large canopy cause such mal

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[bodypilot1 0]

Morgan, you did great and your BEER tasted good also.



Be safe.
Ed

www.WestCoastWingsuits.com
www.PrecisionSkydiving.com

[bseriesboosted 0]

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Congrats on the good decision and safe landing.
Just curious, what are you flying and what is you wingload?

Would a relative light WL of around 1:1 and large canopy cause such mal

yes it can I done it at about 20 jumps luckily I was high enough to kick out... but she is jumping a much smaller canopy so the mal. is goin to be much more extreme

Pruitt

Skydive The Farm

[sundevil777 99]

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Would a relative light WL of around 1:1 and large canopy cause such mal

It is harder to get it to spin up. Turning one way, then quickly opposite will make it happen, have no doubt.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[MNM604 0]

I was not turning the other way before spiraling, I was flying straight and went to go right. My wing loading is 1:1.

[MNM604 0]

I saw you drinking MY beer, don't worry, I will kick your ass later. Wait, you might like it, never mind..

[mdrejhon 8]

When I went to a Sabre 190, learned a valuable lesson on my first ride on it about pulling the opposite toggle too quickly. (This happened over 3000ft, possibly 4000ft, as I pulled high to familiarize myself with this new canopy) I induced linetwists on my canopy, but I successfully scissorkicked out of them (two attempts). That never happened on any of my previous canopies, but the Sabre 190 was high performance enough.

I'm sure I would have had to cut away if linetwists were much worse, fortunately it was only one 360 degree worth of linetwists which I could easily undo in mere seconds.

Since then, I've read in a great book (Brian Germain's "Pilot and its Canopy") about always keeping tension on the lines. If I must turn opposite direction suddenly, monitor the line tension as I change directions quickly. Canopy is like a puppet on strings. The book told me I can only control it as long as I have tension on the lines. That made it safe(r) for me (Also doing flat turn pratice, braked turn pratice). Talk with instructor, see the book.... lots of lessons to be learned...