How low have you...

[benforde 0]

After reading the post on " Going low, is this to low?" I wondered,
This is not a bragging contest, but what is the lowest reading your pro-track has recorded?
Regardless it was probably too low but shit happens.
Note: the reading is taken under a full flight canopy.
Don't BS numbers please

AND what are your audible settings?

[benforde 0]

Oh BTW, this is not a BASE thead!

[vdschoor 0]

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What is the lowest your Pro-Track has recorded after deployement.

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Also, what do you have your pro-track alarms set to?

I've been under a fully inflated canopy at a little over 900ft, I had 60 jumps at the time, no cypress and no audible altimeter. I lost altitude awareness on a freefly jump and saw my friends deploy at 2500ft or so.. WAAY above me

I've never been more scared in my life, and the first thing I did was buy a ProTrack

Now my alarms are set at 5 and 3 in my regular helmet, 6 and 3 in my camera helmet (6000ft so I know the tandem deployment is coming up.. )

Iwan

[Girlfalldown 0]

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Oh BTW, this is not a BASE thead!

Bu...

nevermind.

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[lisamariewillbe 1]

Dont have a pro-track yet but when I do, I would still pull at 3500 to 4000 depending on which canopy Im jumping, I prefer to be in the saddle by 3000 , then again Im a baby jumper and have alot to learn before I think of pulling lower... the lowest I pulled was still 2500... and that just wasnt enough time in my opinion, at least for me

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[EMSchick98 0]

No cool audible yet, but I am with LM, being a newbie, my only solo I pulled at 5,000... The rest were whatever was specified by my instructor. Well, except my first AFF, which was about 4,300 when my instructor pulled. But technically I didn't pull then so it doesn't count

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[katecooper 0]

Hmmm
no option for < 800 feet but before AAD's were available....

but I digress....

bsbd
k

[wildcard451 0]

Was in the saddle at 1000 according to my protrack this weekend. more like 1100 I think by my analog.

Canopies will snivel the longest when we don't want them to.

Not proud of this. Spending the rest of the flight wondering if you have scared your cypres is not fun.

Don't try this at home.

[SudsyFist 0]

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Also, what do you have your pro-track alarms set to?

For freefly, I'm at 5000 - 3500 - 2000.

For distance tracking (training and comp), I set to 3000 - 2500 - 1800.

[jmpnkramer 0]

I know I did one under 1,000'

I was waiting to see if I could get through the base of the clouds.

Obviously before I had an AAD.

I am pretty consistent at 2G now except the fact that it takes 800-1000 for my main to open.

I definitely need to make it back out to Perris to jump at one of your Camps Kate. Just had to throw that in!


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[NWFlyer 2]

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Also, what do you have your pro-track alarms set to?

I think I'm at 4.5/3.5/2 for RW.

The first two are 500-1000 feet over when I usually plan to breakoff/pull. I set them so I have time to react to them if I've actually missed my breakoff time. Usually I hear them while I'm in the process of breaking off/pulling. I've flatlined on linestretch on my snively Spectre, but I've (so far) never heard a flatline prior to pulling.

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[benforde 0]

DAYUM! when was that? what type of equipement?

[markd_nscr986 0]

uhhhhh

Once got so caught up in sequencing a 4 way that we didnt get open until 650-700 ftcould have become really bad day had the base not pulled out of the last formation....alerting the rest of us to our situation

Everyone had Altimaster II's chest mounted,but no audibles

DZO grounded us for a couple of weeks to ponder the err of our ways

Marc SCR 6046 SCS 3004

[katecooper 0]

a LONG time ago... trust me.... A much younger, sillier skydiver than the one that types now. But at least it was at night...and I was with friends...

Equipment? if memory serves me... Pegasus (F-111 7-cell), prolly a Rapid Transit container and either a round (Phantom) reserve or possibly my brank spankin' new Swift reserve. That is if it happened at all....

[wildcard451 0]

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But at least it was at night...and I was with friends...

...if you gotta come up with a reason.....this one will do nicely for most occasions

[squink 0]

The lowest I have EVER been completely open at is about 2,200 feet. That was only b/c I had a hard pull. I generally pull at 3,500 minimum.

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[Hambone 0]

Yeah I went ahead and got an audible as soon as possible, i am pretty distractable, but i have heard it flat line once but it is set at 4.5/3.5/2.5 Generally in the saddle around 2700 i have but a domed slider on my saber and that slows things down a little...THANK GOD.

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[Viking 0]

1900 feet on a snivelling Safire2. I deployed at 3k.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
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[councilman24 37]

Where's the 300' catagory? For my reserve that totaled for 1400'.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
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FAA DPRE

[Icon134 0]

Some of us non sub-2k people don't have C or D licenses... and thus have container open requirements of 2500 ft or higher

I prefer to pull by 2500-3000 ft but I've seen protrack readings as low as 1900 ft on my protrack.

Scott

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[KrisFlyZ 0]

Usually pull around 4K on most jumps. Saddled out at 1300 on one skydive and that was a mistake. I am a dirty high puller.

Kris.

[dixieskydiver 0]

I finally yanked my audible out of my helmet pocket one day after 50 or so jumps of not checking it to find I had been getting in the saddle at around 1700 on too many jumps. I had the first alert set for 4 and the "pull, pull motherfucker" tone set for 3k. So I set it to start going off 1500 ft higher and that has seemed to help the problem. I'm getting in the saddle between 3 - 2.5k which I feel alot better about.

Dixie
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[godfrog 2]

My lowest opening was about 700ft. it was pre cypress era and I was in a 4 way. The only thing that saved 3 of our live is that I was wearing my altimiter on a chest pillow and was docking when the guy across from my pulled. He apologized later for pulling without warning but no apology was expected or neccesary. He SAVED MY LIFE!!! By the way I was jumping a cruise lite at the time.

Experience is a difficult teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson afterward

[Reginald 0]

I never pulled below 2,00ft. I have pulled very near it a number of times in my AFFI course; it was designed such that the candidates begin tracking off at about 3,000 feet and must get sufficient separation before deploying. Unfortunately, my canopy take 800 feet to open so pulling at 2,200ish feet saddles me out (per my Pro Track) at around 1,400 or 1,500 feet. I spent a week of my life pulling just above 2k and saddling out around 1,500. I got comfortable with it but never liked doing it!

I pull at 3,000 routinely, which saddles me out around 2,200. This gives me a little time before my hard deck of 1,800.

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