Baglock blues...

[freeflyguy 0]

I just thought I would mention today to you all.
I skipped work because we were going to do a fly around Mount Saint Helens, with the Golden Nights tandem team that have been jumping with us the last couple of weeks. Cool, then jump into a little airport, have the otter pick us up and then jump back into Kapowsin.
That didn't work, fog. So first load was at 12 or so. To make a short story short. We had a nice 4 way freefly, broke off, then I noticed we were out a ways so I pitched at a about 3500 or so. Had a little tug, but not a good one, so I looked up to a nicely spinning D-bag and a pretty green inflated pilot chute. That was all I needed to know. Chopped it. I had enough altitude that I watched it go into the trees Then I scared some horses as a landed in their pasture. All was well. Found my still bagged canopy and free bag, and got a ride back to the DZ.
Lessons learned. Yes, I do know what those extra handles are for, my first cutaway. I think the problem was either a triple stow on one of the locking stows, or I was a bit sloppy with my lines. Probably the latter. Other thing is that my tempo 150 has a pretty healthy left hand turn built into it. I have heard of that with them before, so if you have one, be conscious of it.
Other than that, nice day, 4 more jumps and I am home and happy. So is my rigger, Mikey, His save, so he gets the Jack Daniels.

[cyberskydive 0]

uhmm- BEER! glad everything worked out so well!
never even though about a triple stow before :)-LOL
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[freeflir29 0]

Man...I've never had one yet and hope I dont. I watched an ugly film a while back of a guy with a bag lock. He cut it away perfectly but then failed to deploy the reserve????WTFO Man...Splat...right in front of a crowd. (Demo jump)
"The cab driver said... he recognized my girly by the back of her head" -Beasty Boys
Clay

[freeflyguy 0]

I can't imagine not deploying the reserve after chopping the main. If I pull one handle, I will automatically pull the other. I didn't even have to think about it. On mine, I looked at the baglock, went for both pillows, gave them both a confirmation squeeze and then pulled one, then the other. I had practiced that a million times, so I didn't have to think about it, when I actually had to do it. The thing didn't even really scare me. No time for that. It was probably not more than 4 or 5 seconds from the time I pitched my main out to the time I made all my decisions and was under a good reserve.
Practice that stuff. You will need it.
You know, come to think of it, a couple weeks ago, I was sitting across from Andy Farrington on the Otter, he has 6000 jumps. He did a practice cutaway handle check. You never have to much experience to practice saving you life.