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Michele

Malfunction Cutaway...packed your own?

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18 reserve rides total.
I packed two of them, the rest were packed by other people.
My first reserve ride came after another freefall student packed a rental Crossbow. Clearly he had not learned the finer points of clearing stabilizers.
My second mal was my fault. The closing loop was too long for my new main canopy and I experienced a horseshoe mal shortly after exit. The other jumper bumping into me in the doorway dislodged a pin that was already loose. That was also my first save as a new rigger.
My third mal was an experimental canopy packed by someone else and I completely missed the country, landing in a French swamp.
Then I had a string of 14 mals on first-generation tandem canopies, all packed by other people.
My last mal was a spinner under a Diablo - that I packed - clearly a shoulder position problem during deployment.

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;)Had four 2 I paked(maintenace problem on one old canopy:$) 1 packed for me. Last one was result of one of students coliding with me at about 1700 resulting in both of us cutting away and opening reserves, both of which I had packed onle two weeks earlier. Boy did that one cost some beer!!:)
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