How low have you...

[champu 1]

protrack settings:

4way - 4000, 3200, 1800
FF - 5000, 3200, 1800
wingsuit - 5000, 4000, 2500

usually protrack records 2200-2400 for deployment.

lowest protrack recorded deployment altitude was 1700.

I have, however, done a couple hop-n-pops from 2 grand that the protrack didn't record cause I dumped as soon as I was clear of the tail. With my forward speed in that case I don't imagine I was below 1700.

[Remster 30]

I typically pull between 3000 and 2500. With big ways, sometimes at the 2 to 2.2 range.

I'm sure I have pulled in the 1800 region before.

My prodytter is set at x-3000-1500, where x changes a lot based on what I do.

Remster

[tommytn296 0]

jump 24, i was on my first two-way, turned and tracked, lost altitude awareness in my track, pulled around 1600 feet, and as my main opened my Cypres fired, giving me two canopies out, which i cut away from. i was still on student gear, which explains the firing around 1000 feet.

now i'm a bit more cautious.

"I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead."
-Charles Lindbergh

[cocheese 0]

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All you non sub-2k people are missing an experience hanging on the strut of the Cessna at 1800 then taking a delay to get airspeed to open with.

I know what that is like from 2000, except i still had a pilot chute in tow til i reached back, then it inflated. Whew !

My minimum exit has been moved to 3000+ ever since then.
Audibles set at 55, 35 and 25. for all jumps.

[waltappel 1]

Before they had ProTracks, I had 3 openings where I was in the saddle at 700 ft. or lower and quite a number of others around a grand or a little lower.

That was on skydives.

My lowest BASE jump was a direct bag from 125 ft., giving me a fully open canopy at about 50 ft. Yahoo!!!

Opening low on skydives is a *bad* thing.

Opening low on BASE jumps? Well, it's just a thing...

Walt

[gmanpilot 0]

30-way RW...trying to get that last point and breakoff ended up starting below 3K. Nobody died, but I'm glad we don't do that stuff anymore.

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[pincheck 0]

hop and pop from 2k sub terminal by 1200-1400 in the saddle.
protrack normal 4000 3000 2500 opening at 3000 in saddle by 2500 as vertical on flatline.

thing about protrak is by the time your brain reliazes its went off you have traveled on so if you aint checking your alti by the time your second warning arrives you already probably at 200-300 lower than you should be.

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[NoPush 0]

At the 2004 Nationals, my GF did a lot of tunnel time to kill time and improve her skills. When 4-way was over, the team packed up and headed home. The next day she did a fun jump with friend and I did video to check out her new skills.

She blew through their planned break-off, her friend then tracks and deploys. I like an ass chase her down trying to get her attention from below her on my back. She finally deploys, I feel relieved then flip over..........I had never seen the ground so big ....... I dump and assume my cypress is going to fire. (Wasn’t on).

In the video you see the slider come down and I look at my alt .... just under 900ft

Should Have:

Noticed much sooner she was not AA …
Not chased another in …..
Pulled my main that low …

[labrys 0]

I've screwed up twice in a big way by my standards. I deployed at about 1800 feet after losing altitude awareness during an RW jump. I may have gone lower if an up-jumper with me hadn't (almost literally) smacked me on the side of the helmet and given me a pull signal (what the hell is he pointing at <>. ). That was stress and sleep deprivation at work.

About a year later I fought line twists to 1400 feet before I realized I hadn't checked altitude. I lucked out and cleared them at the same time.

Owned by Remi #?

[freethefly 6]

I have left the plane at 1500' with cypress off. Pulled on the hill and had the Sabre150 between 800-900'. These days I always pull between 4000-3000'. No need to go lower. Once is enough. I do WANT to BASE but that is a differant dog altogether.

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[bob.dino 1]

Audibles for 4-way: 4000 - 3200 - 1800. I've heard the flatline as the canopy finished deploying a couple of times, though not in a while.

[vt1977 0]

Lowest reading my protrack has recorded... 1,100 feet. But that was my reserve following a total malfunction!

My beeps on a normal skydive are set for:

(whatever break off height is): 2,500 feet: 1,800 feet

Vicki

[piisfish 140]

1200 with AAD activated
under 900 with no AAD (Paracommander, exit at 1800ft)
my beeps are now :
1600m, 1200m, 750m

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[skydiverbry 0]

975 AGL @ full glide ,alot less no glide, reserve just starting to open. I didn't have AAD, not proud or bragging either just f*&%$% up, lost atli aware and just made the opening of the reserve to slow me down enough to get hurt,nearly killed When i finally got my audible I have it set @5000/3500/ screaming at 2500AGL BLUE SKIES BRYAN

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[BillyVance 34]

I have had three really low openings. The first one, before I had a Cypres installed, was due to a leg strap coming completed undone, all the way out to the end, when it got hung up on the guy in front of me on the floater bar on exit. I never felt something was wrong, and proceeded with a 10 point 8 way where I was always on the outside looking in and nobody noticed anything was wrong. Only until breakoff at 4000 did I feel something flapping against my leg. With a significant loading on my Triathlon 120 main and Tempo 120 reserve, I did not think I could risk deploying either canopy with a leg strap completely undone and survive. So I tried as hell to get that strap cinched (almost too much time) and when I did I instinctively and immediately pitched my main pc while checking my altimeter which read 1200 feet, FUCK!!! I was in the saddle at 700 feet according to the altimeter.

Sorry, I don't have a PRO TRACK... but that's what the altimeter said.

The other two jumps were cypres fires. First one was a shit-hot 10 way where the average experience level was 2000+ jumps and little ole me at 700 jumps. I ask the organizer on the way up what our breakoff is... he says 3,500 feet, and I do a double-take. I start wondering if I should bump myself off this jump, but decide to go ahead... So we jump, turning point after point... until about 4000 feet when the formation funnels with people spread out vertically. We're already confused when peoples' audibles start screaming and they start tracking away, so away I go, only to find two others below me tracking in the same direction on either side. Aw fuck... I wasn't sure if I should pull first and risk a mid-air if they happen to pull at the same time, so I waited for them to pull first... only they pulled somewhere around 1500 to 1800 feet and I whistle past the last guy and pitch... guess what? Snivel! Fully open, I reach for the toggles... feel a pop on my back, look over my shoulder. FUCK! Immediate chop and quick clean cutaway before the reserve's out of the bag.

Last one was going through industrial haze 500 feet thick between 2000 and 2500 feet on a big way and getting my glasses completely fogged over to where I can't even read my altimeter. I lose track of time and get disoriented, trying to wipe the condensation off so I could see, then pitch the damn pc again... same goddamn result... cypres fire.

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