jeremy556

depends on the bone. I have a broken scaphoid in my wrist which takes 3-6 months to heal because of poor blood flow to the area of the bone that is broken.

I don't think most/any student gear has a kill line PC.

Yea, bad on me for not even knowing what my reserve was on demo gear before jumping it. We had gusty winds to 16+ mph on Sunday and I think that helped me to have one my softest landings ever. Once the reserve did open and I saw it, I thought “oh shit that is small, prepare to PLF” This was not my usual rig. I got my usual rig, and the Cypress battery was dead so it was doing a 9889 and shutting off. My wife had told me she had “a bad feeling about today” a little while earlier, otherwise I would not have thought anything of jumping without a Cypress. So I got a different rig than usual with a functional Cypress.

But they said since it was demo gear I didn't have to pay! I was standing there with my wallet open at the time too.

If you drop handles it is a few bucks, freebag and PC over a hundred, lose a main and you are looking at over $1000.

I had my pre-second cutaway on Sunday on my 63rd jump. Had just done a 2 way, on deployment I had closed end cells, as usual, on my Sabre2 210 (or so I thought), and went into a hard right turn. I pulled both the toggles and tried to counter the turn, and tried pulling on risers, but the right side was still not inflated and still in a hard diving turn. I executed my EPs as trained, pulling the cutaway was a LOT harder than doing it in the hanging practice harness, and about a half a second after feeling myself back in freefall pulled my reserve handle (no RSL ring on the risers for this demo canopy). The white Smart 160 reserve was a nice sight to see when I looked up. Had an uneventful though very short canopy ride to a nice landing. I am not shaken up by the event at all, I heard that a lot of people question their continuance in the sport after their first cutaway but I have gained confidence in my equipment and myself. I had somewhat dreaded my first cutaway but while it was happening it was really just automatic, I didn’t feel scared or think about what could happen or anything like that, it was really just: this is a malfunction I cannot clear or land, so pull the right handle, pull the left handle. I was about 1000 times more scared doing my tandem when I got to the door. I really wasn’t sure after it happened what exactly my malfunction was, and was actually worried all the experienced jumpers and instructors would think I chopped for something stupid being that I am sub-100 jumps, but I knew I had a real malfunction. Fortunately a few people from the ground were watching and let me know that is was in fact a line over. We were able to recover the main in a cow field and the freebag and reserve PC from a tree. I retained my handles so it ended up being a cheap reserve ride, except for the beer and the bottle for the rigger (I still owe the bottle). I deployed at 3500, which put me under a mostly open canopy at around 2600. I think that I chopped at 1500 which was only a few spins and a couple of seconds while under the main, and was under the reserve at about 1000 feet.

Is this the first person video of the accuracy crash on skydivingmovies?

Whenever you are going to do anything differently, run it by your instructors. Even seemingly small things like jumping without a jump suit can present potential problems you may not think of.

If you aren't wearing a jumpsuit, tuck your shirt in and secure it. Your shirt blowing up can cover your cutaway and reserve handles.

http://www.skydiving.org.vt.edu/goodstuff/beer.htm Read this. You are getting suckered for a lot of beer.

Sounds like your daughter sucks at driving and is not ready for it with multiple tickets and at least one rear end accident in how long driving?

I packed myself a step through on my third jump of my own pack job, but it was after my A on jump high twenty something. It opened very hard, and I went into massive line twists at least 9 or 10 spinning hard. I was about to chop at 2700 when they finally started to come out. Once I got them out I noticed my risers were twisted (step through) and that my PC had wrapped and tangled in my right steering lines. I used my left toggle to make it fly straight and landed it by flaring with rear risers.

Yea, that's what I do. Once the canopy is open with a couple of closed end cells, I pull on the rear risers which causes them to inflate, then I unstow brakes after dealing with the slider.

I pull on the rear risers a bit just after opening while looking around for traffic before collapsing slider and releasing brakes.

+1 People don’t seem to take automobile crashes (they aren’t really accidents, more like negligence) very seriously because it is usually just a case of “insurance goes up, cars get fixed” but it can easily severely injure or kill people.