Un-inflated sigma drogue.

[stayhigh 2]

Is it a some what normal appearance over time???

Not talking about not being cocked.
I'm talking about bridal hitching on drogue or straight sniveling drogue.

and has anyone taken that configuration beyond 20+ seconds??

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[irishrigger 31]

No way would i wait 20 sec if i had a problem with a drogue. after i throw the drogue, i check it for inflation if not inflated after 5 sec i pull drogue release. I would never go beyond that.
my motto, if i have a problem i deal with it there and then not later

[RIGGER 0]

Hi

I vote for that.

By the book "wait 6-8 sec. - doesn't inflated - pull the drogue release handle".

Waiting longer = you gain more vertical speed = hard deployment / damage to the main & more issues.

Check your drogue at all time.

Cheers

Shlomo

[Tetrahedron 13]

stayhigh

Is it a some what normal appearance over time???

Not talking about not being cocked.
I'm talking about bridal hitching on drogue or straight sniveling drogue.

and has anyone taken that configuration beyond 20+ seconds??

It happened to me once.

We exited and I deployed the drogue. I felt we were still accelerating.
When I looked up, the drogue was not inflating.
I pulled the drogue release after about 8 seconds.
It was a long, cold ride down.

Soon as we landed, I checked the drogue and it was fine.

I doubt the packer would have forgotten to cock the drogue on a Sigma, but our packers are rather sloppy when stowing the drogue.

[diablopilot 2]

stayhigh

Is it a some what normal appearance over time???

Not talking about not being cocked.
I'm talking about bridal hitching on drogue or straight sniveling drogue.

and has anyone taken that configuration beyond 20+ seconds??

I've had 3 in 8500 and 2 I can attribute to packing technique. Pulled drogue release within 8 seconds on all three.... 2 of them were 18,000 tandems.... long cold ride indeed.

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[stayhigh 2]

How did you pack your drogue??

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[skydived19006 4]

I've had two droges where the bridle half hitched on the fabric. I know that one of them was still in that configuration at landing. I attribute both of those to either a right side low throw, or a lazy throw. Had hand cam video on one, and you can see the D-bag coming out of the container, and almost bouncing off the back of my head before a slow deployment. It was a learning lesson for me!

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[Scrumpot 1]

Maybe a bit off the intended topic discussion - but just out of curiosity - in each of those cases that resulted in an excessively high-deployment being executed in response to the issue, what (if anything) was further done for the tandem pax, who expected something more than just an 8-10 sec total freefall? Were they offered re-jumps? Just told that sometimes SH** happens, and sent on their way(s)? - What?

Again, just an aside bi-product of the occurence curiosity type question.

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[diablopilot 2]

stayhigh

How did you pack your drogue??

I didn't. Packers came up with their own "easier" technique. Afterwards I made sure they understood and utilized the "factory" method.

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[diablopilot 2]

Scrumpot

Maybe a bit off the intended topic discussion - but just out of curiosity - in each of those cases that resulted in an excessively high-deployment being executed in response to the issue, what (if anything) was further done for the tandem pax, who expected something more than just an 8-10 sec total freefall? Were they offered re-jumps? Just told that sometimes SH** happens, and sent on their way(s)? - What?

Again, just an aside bi-product of the occurence curiosity type question.

As I recall not one of them was disappointed in the experience, they left satisfied.

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[wetrock 0]

here is one way it could be incorrectly packed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTIjZbvxSJg

[stayhigh 2]

The one that I just experienced was packed "Bill Dause" method.

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