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Need advice quickly: sharp pain in ear and now it feels muffled
CG07 replied to Kirkk0herra's topic in Safety and Training
You can also do Eustachian Tube exercises regularly to improve your ability to clear your ears. A couple times a day (3 or so reps each time) fill your cheeks with air and swallow it. This was recommend to me by my ENT prior to some surgeries I had on my eardrums to reduce the pressure during the healing process. -
That's what the instructor told me afterward too. I probably would have held onto my main with my leg and sent my reserve into it
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It was the 3.5k one. I actually ended up going back the next day to do it since it was the only thing besides the 25 jumps that I still needed on my proficiency card. I knew thinking about it would eat me up if I waited.
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I felt the need to tell this somewhere... Working my way to my A license I finally decided to do the jump I was dreading the most, the hop n pop. My DZ normally jumps out of an Otter but for hop n pops they use they the C182. The slower airspeed messed with my exit (mostly mental) and self induced paranoia to pull quickly resulted in me rolling on my back as I was pitching the pilot chute (I took hop n pop a little too literally). As I watched it stream up between my legs I knew I was in for some trouble. I got tossed around a bit as the canopy opened and somehow ended with my left leg, up to the area behind my knee, caught in the risers on my right side. I then started to go into a pretty fast spin. I tried a couple times to free myself but I was so contorted that I couldn't move my leg back any farther to get it out. At this point I decided I need to chop. When I looked for my handles I saw part of my cutaway sticking out from under my leg. I was able to barely get my hand on it but had no leverage to pull it. I messed with it a few more times, even trying with both hands, but my leg was firmly blocking me from pulling the handle and I decided that it wasn't happening. This is when the seriousness of my situation really started to hit me. I looked at the ground and then at my canopy (which looked like it was directly in front of me) and realized how fast I was spinning. I hate to say it but for a few seconds I just sort of started to accept my fate. All I knew was that I had an out of control canopy, had wrenched myself around trying to get out and was unable to execute my EP's. I remember thinking "wow this is actually happening!" I couldn't think of anything else to do. After the couple seconds of self pity I snapped out of it and told myself "No! you are finding a way out of this!" I looked up to assess the whole situation and saw that I had a fully deployed main but my leg was pushing down on the front risers and causing me to spiral down. I figured my best option was to yank on my rear risers to counteract it. I instantly felt myself slow down and was able to get my body up higher to do a full flare with my rear risers. After a few flares I finally worked my leg out (It was MUCH easier to move without the force of the spin throwing me around) and was flying the canopy normally with a little less than 1000ft below me. Never been happier to see the ground. Not sure if I acted correctly but it ended up working out. One huge mistake I made after I corrected the situation was not checking my handles since I had been trying to work them free. When I finally took my rig off I noticed my cutaway handle was detached from the velcro and could have easily been bumped and cut away my main as I was landing.