Rover

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  4. I have done about 5500 tandems out of a 172 - we had bars across the roof and a vey good step over the wheel. I am 5 foot 8 and 200 plus pounds. With 1 tandem I would have the passenger facing forward beside the pilot and I would sit behind the pilot seat facing to the rear. I would turn around and hook up about 2000 feet before the jump. with 2 tandems we all faced to the rear. You can see the step in one photo and the bars in the other,

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  6. On ‎3‎/‎11‎/‎2019 at 7:18 AM, file said:

    Jumped all of them. HOP330, or even better HOP300!! Sigma is also good, but other two can't even compare with it on any level. Personal opinion

    It's been a while but my opinion is Hop plus turbulence equals death. 6ooo jumps on Icarus and they are bullet proof - bullet proof. Can't comment on the others cause I haven't jumped them.  

  7. My personal opinion is that 500 jumps is not enough for gaining a tandem rating. I'm not sure what the rules are where you but I would suggest that you look at outside camera as a way of building jumps and observing the sort of shit the TIs sometimes have to deal with.

    I got my rating around 1400 jumps and have 6000 plus tandems currently.

    Cheers.

  10. skydiverek

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    Except that is not what the trade-off is. The trade-off is having good glide or good opening reliability. The goal of a reserve should be to get a good parachute over your head no matter what the cost or trade-off is.



    Can you point to any issues with Tandem reserve reliability?

    Can you show any incidents where a tandem reserve didn't open properly (when the TI executed EPs correctly)?

    Here is one:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg5EoCDwhnk


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    The recent tandem fatality in Queenstown New Zealand where the passenger drowned in a lake involved a malfunctioning reserve.
    2 wrongs don't make a right - but 3 lefts do.

  20. Harden up cupcake - it was the same shit when I started 36 years ago. I was never the most popular kid in the class, but I'm the last one standing.

    Get over yourself and get on with it.
    2 wrongs don't make a right - but 3 lefts do.

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    Uninflated drogue, due to the drogue bridle half-hitching around it.
    Out of sequence deployment (should have simply pulled drogue release, pulled reserve instead).

    Reserve entangled with drogue bridle.



    Thanks for your reply. I'm fully aware of the sequence of events. My question is more why the instructor in question made the decisions he did. Impossible to too answer but the fact that very shortly after the incident there was an issue with training of TI's raises a red flag. It is obvious that the TI did not follow his training. Why? Was there a language issue during training? I lived in Japan for 8 years and speak the language well - but there is no way I'd be able to go through my training in that language.
    The thread you refer to was locked very shortly after the incident. Have there been any developments since?
    2 wrongs don't make a right - but 3 lefts do.

  25. Are there any updates regarding this incident? There were issues re training, invalid ratings - both the issuer and the issuees (sic) but I haven't seen any info recently. Can't see anything in the incidents forum as the thread is closed.
    2 wrongs don't make a right - but 3 lefts do.