Reserve Use Poll

[Ruffles 0]

Please check off any of the malfunction categories you have experienced which resulted in you landing under a reserve (or main & reserve combination). Please limit the events to the last 10 years of your diving. Thanks.

[quade 3]

For this to make sense, would you also need the reserve deployments per jumps ratio?

quade -
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[Ruffles 0]

Yeah, that would be way cool, is there a way I can integrate that into the poll?

[jdhill 0]

I've had 3 rides... my total ratio is ~ 1:565... That may be a little misleading though... the first two rides were under 25 jumps, the third was around 1200 jumps later.

#1 - Jump 15 - Student Gear - Pilot Chute Hes. - Round reserve

#2 - Jump 24 - Second Jump on my own gear - Pilot Chute in Tow - resulted in a two out that I landed

#3 - ~Jump 1250 - Premature Break release on x-braced canopy loaded at 2.1:1 resulting in line twists/spinning - Uneventful reserve landing.

Josh

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[freeflir29 0]

Had two out once around jump 30 something. Not sure why...it just decided to open about the time I got full inflation of the main. Handles in place and no Cypres fire. Under "two good" canopies at 2400Ft. Landed uneventfully.I still consider my ratio to be 0:311.

[billvon 2,396]

You should add tension knots - I've had three (all tandems.) Maybe PC bowtie as well.

[mustard 0]

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You should add tension knots - I've had three (all tandems.) Maybe PC bowtie as well.

Yeah, I also had a canopy entanglement with another jumper on opening, which made me wonder if all CRW (intentional or not) reserve rides would be under "other."

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DJan

[Ruffles 0]

The tension knot thing would have been a good idea, you're right. Unfortunately, the thing won't let me do an "Edit Post" to add that category. I've heard a lot of people talk about tension knots, dunno why I forgot. Incidentally, what does a tension knot usually become (i.e. spinner, malformed canopy, etc.)?
Regarding canopy wraps, I didn't want to include them as this is generally not a component of an abnormally functioning piece of equipment (like when you do Crew, you get wraps generally, but it is not a malfunction per se, its because there was collision).

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

Three rides in 3200 jumps:

-One bad CRW wrap where I chopped at 900 feet

-One time where someone hooked my spare canopy up wrong and didn't do a check before packing it. The mal spun very quickly

-One time where I had a premature brake deployment jumping my wingsuit

Chuck

[relyon 0]

I've had 6 reserve rides in 1175 jumps, all of them in the aftermath of CRW entanglements/wraps:

o One of four cutaways after a 25-diamond funnel.
o Pilot chute entanglement with canopy above me
o Plane dock on 8-plane formation
o Plane dock on 8-kite formation
o Stack dock on 4-stack formation
o Wing/lockup entaglement/wrap on a 29-way

Although I've come quite close on some other CRW jumps, I've had no problems worse than a couple line twists on non-CRW jumps (looking for some wood to knock).

Bob

[f1freak 0]

31st jump, i had a toggle stuck and i just could not get that thing out, well it came to descision alt, and i said "okay, here we go" chop......
and flew a beautiful white tempo in for a great landing....

HAVE FUN...
...JUST DONT DIE

[trmnljnky 0]

1st was on my 2nd night jump, one break would not release due to tensoin knot

2nd the hacky handle came off my pilot chute

Byron

[DaMan 0]

Three demos of reserves as mains-so, it's "other" for me.

Z-Flock 8
Discotec Rodriguez

Too bad weapons grade stupidity doesn't lead to sterility.

[Mindcake 0]

ratio 1:50
tension knot on jump 32

landed a 200sq ft Raven II loaded 1.1:1 in a bean field with all the tandems on the same load


Jim

Don´t belive the hype

[Dumpster 0]

1- AAD fire
1-Line groups crossed (like a step-through, sort of-)

Easy Does It

[pop 0]

my only cutaway was a bag lock

7 ounce wonders, music and dogs that are not into beer

[homer 0]

1- Jump #54 (first jump on my new equipment) collapsed pilot chute in tow due to it being installed wrong. I now have 113 squares and 24 rounds = 1 in 137 jumps and counting.

CSA #699 Muff #3804

[lewmonst 0]

my cutaway ratio is 0:715

yippee

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[kmcguffee 0]

I just had my pre-second cutaway this weekend. I had a hard pull which made me go head down during deployment. My main opened with severe line twists and immediately went into a spiral. I chopped without fighting with it too much. My ratio is now 1:76.

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Ben Franklin

[Ruffles 0]

"Pre-second".. I like it. Were you able to avoid the "Beer Clause" by using that? I'll have to try it at my DZ.

[TheMonkey 0]

jump #100 YAHOO! closing loop not tight enough, premature deployment coming out of a sit....got a horseshoe that cleared itself and the pc wrapped the canopy as it came out of the dbag

result = high speed streamer

have amazing video of the entire thing, it is pretty cool to watch after the fact!

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Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience!

[psw097 0]

Some of the best video I've ever seen of someone looking stupid while they have a ball of shit behind then they don't even know about. And, Chris even risked his own life to make sure he shot the whole thing.

[psw097 0]

1100 jumps, one reserve ride so far. Spinning line twist under a Viper 105. Found it in the woods with only one brake line stowed - whoops.

[hookitt 0]

1st--Toggle out Locked above and below the slider.. Very strange. Couldn't fly it straight.

2nd-- 1 1/2 line twist... Go figure
3rd-- borrowed rig.. toggle out.. flung me into line twists... (just happened to be 2 years and 2 months out of date) Another story
4th-- borrowed rig. Hard pull on a pull out. lost the handle, Gave up at 2 grand. (another good story)
5th--1 1/2 line twists
6th-- 2 line twists
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All packed by other people... go figure. I have about 150 to 200 packed by someome else during training and while doing some AFF dives. Ive had up to 7 or 8 line twists and the parachute flew fine... give me 1 1/2 and I'm done.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[winsor 186]

1st - couldn't find a handle; 26' LoPo.
2nd - tension knot; Bogy200 => Swift Plus 175
3rd - broken lines (Kevlar); BT50 => Swift Plus 175
4th - spinning mal (probably lost a toggle); BT50 => Swift 177
5th - lineover; BT50 => Swift 177
6th - lineover; BT50 => Swift 177

(I have a lot of jumps on Blue Tracks, and own three of them)