jerry81 10 #1 May 15, 2005 Last hop&pop yesterday, I had an extremely weird opening. I did a gainer out the door and pitched belly to the relative wind, nothing unusual about body position, packjob or throw, but instead of a subterminal snivel and the expected swing forward, it looked like my canopy started to inflate and then lost line tension for a moment or so, meaning it was halfway open when I reached linestretch. It wasn't extremely hard, but it was violent and it got me thinking; could it be that when the parachute was coming out of the bag, my body was still moving independently down the hill and instead of being snatched by the opening canopy, I slid just enough to lose line tension? Has anyone ever experienced something similar and in what circumstances? I've done gainers and normal diving deployments from this plane (antonov-2) and never had anything unusual happen before... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #2 May 16, 2005 You may want to ask this in the CRW forum - those guys have done just about everything while deploying on the hill._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerry81 10 #3 May 16, 2005 I guess I'll have to try...hope it's still a valid comparison, regardless of the different deployment system. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
