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Deuce

How to spin-up a Spectre and live. My first chop. (Pictures)

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After the biggest skydive for me yet, a formation load out of two Otters, a nice one-point 35 way that should have made the second point, with me front float on the trail plane, I tracked away at 5000 feet to 3500, slowed, waved off, and deployed.

My faithful Spectre 150, loaded about 1.5, rapidly spun up right out of the bag, about three twists, then continued to spin up and went into a dive.

I'd like to say I did everything textbook, but I didn't. I yanked both handles just about simultaneously. The reserve pilot chute came off my back and around me ( I was spinning on my back at cutaway) and came up into my sight as my canopy left. The pilot chute was just sitting there, and showed no signs of taking the bag out, because I was on my back. I rolled over belly to earth, away from the bridle into a boxman and waited what seemed like a very long time. It wasn't. Bang, I have a canopy, very pretty sky blue, big ole' risers, metal connecting links. 1200 feet. I tossed my cutaway handle, but I've got my reserve handle. Damn. These are the tie-die ones.:P.

The canopy ride was no big deal, cause I did a ten minute ride or so from 14K on a PDR143 on a demo day. They sink faster, but handle similarly to my Spectres.

Lessons? Practice emergency procedures all the time. Have someone else drill you.

I have never practiced cutting away in a hanging harness. I really wish I had, it probably would have improved my performance.

I will cutaway and wait a beat before pulling my reserve ripcord next time. Maybe it will be 488 jumps from now. That's how many it took to get to this one.

Thanks Vic Krusi. That case of Guinness is chillin.

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The rest.

Oh, 12 jumps for the weekend. Six Saturday, the last one was the cutaway, I'da jumped again, but it was getting late (gotta get home for dinner)

And six today. All tandem videos. Father's day is a big tandem draw;). Back in the saddle. Actually more confident than before. Humbler, more serious about emergency procedures. But not a thought of giving this up.

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Nice job Deuce! Now...WTF are you doing jumping on that ankle???

PS- looks like you handled things just fine. Proud of you!

G. Jones

"I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around, the more I think it might not be a bad idea."

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Well, I'm very glad to see you didn't do what I did when I had a spinning mal!


See, even old faithful friends screw up sometimes. I bet your ol' buddy Spectre doesn't do that again for a while.;):P
--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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Nice job Deuce! Now...WTF are you doing jumping on that ankle???

PS- looks like you handled things just fine. Proud of you!



Butt-slide landings. Even on the reserve. I got good at it when the knee was out. The ankle is immobilized and protected in a rigid brace. Frankly, it's nice to have the agility I have in the air, cause I'm pretty slow-moving on the ground;).

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Unless you're really, really low and are going to die anyway -- ya gotta have a stable belly to earth deployment when you're wearing camera. Good luck on this one, but don't try to be a human RSL. There's a reason we don't wear RSLs while flying camera.

Of course, you knew that. ;)
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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your bridel from your reserve is pretty close to your camera:orember to be belly to earth while pulling reserve by camera;)

How ever cool pics,specialy the one were you have cutted and the 3ring is working on releaseB|

Good to see you reacted on that

Stay safe
Stefan Faber

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Good job, JP. This is starting out to be quite an interesting summer for you with your foot injury and chop. I hope you don't try to top this now! :S
She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

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Good save dude. What's up with the Spectres lately? Deuce, if your doing all this shit, the ankle, the new helmet, the cutaway and so on just so you have an excuse for not having your BM suit in Eloy, lemme tell ya something......We ain't buying it. Dude, you better represent;):D Nice stills by the way, a true camera man. Oh shit I have a spinning mal, these will make great shots!:D
"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required"
Some people dream about flying, I live my dream
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I love gif #2...the moment of KA-Ching!;)

How high were you when you chopped?

Congrats on saving yourself.
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Murray

"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

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And from his description of his chop and unstable reserve deployment I'd bet he had more important things on his mind at the time



See the part Deuce has left out was that he was on his back because he wanted to get pics of it;) Ain't that right Deuce?:D Do I need to buy more stock in Duct tape or is that ankle getting better?
"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required"
Some people dream about flying, I live my dream
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Well done, Deuce!B|
"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat."

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DEUCE,
you crazy sonuva.... LOL

glad to hear everything went well;)
I know my first is coming sometime so reading these posts helps me. wonder WTF Ill do! LOL

at least you didnt decide for the AAD to bail you out! :o
yesterday, we were discussing some of the rumors we heard about reserve rides.that was one:o

The saved said I couldnt find my hacky so I waited til the aad went off......DOH!!!!:o

anyway back to your mal...glad everything worked out!
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If I know Deuce he got stills of it too



And from his description of his chop and unstable reserve deployment I'd bet he had more important things on his mind at the time. ;)



I didn't have my stills camera on. It's just a little too much gear for those big-way door-jams. Me and another RW-freeflier were the only ones wearing cameras inside. Yes, they are screen grabs.

Yes, Quade. Message received.

The ankle is not a factor in the skydiving. It no longer hurts, I got X-rayed last week, it's all stable and knitting, I've done the broken bone thing lots of times, this is pretty minor. Thanks, though. I would never endanger OTHER skydivers, let alone myself, bY jumping disabled.

Hanging harness training. They've got one at Davis, I'm gonna hit up JP for a ride in theirs.

I was under the reserve at 1200 feet. I must have started chopping at my decision hard deck of 2000.

JP (Ya down with OJP?, YEAH YOU KNOW ME!)
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