Dirty_Dan

Here's one for the "It seemed like a good idea at the time" category. This was sometime mid/late 70’s. As a lead in, USPA emergency procedures at the time said if a student gets tangled in the static line and doesn’t acknowledge the jumpmaster signaling he’s going to cut him free, the JM is supposed to slide down the SL, cut the student free and pull his/her reserve (yeah right