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Ah, have seen that one before...a classic... Scary as shit! Have you seen on the movie Base (I think) at the end when the guy lands after doing a headdown with someone and you can see the shadow of the slider still at the top by the canopy! He barely got the canopy open at all in time it looks like. I heard he was hurt on that jump too...not sure to what extent. Scary!
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From what I've heard about that video he had to stip off his altimeter & then his glove so that he could pull his reserve handle. Yeouch! Close one...
The lesson here is know thy gear & know how it will interfere with anything else that may be on the dive.
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From his first hand posting on rec. last year... He was flying a birdman suit... Dumped at 2.5 and had that spinning mal. He cutaway... then had to cut away the wings to get access to the reserve handle. Thats what you see him pulling after the cutaway.
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HOLYSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he bairly had enought time to unstow the damn breaks before he got down!!!! that dude owe's the rigger a case.....of scotch!!
Just thought of somthing would a camera tape survive an impact???? kinda morbib i know but would investigators be able to use the video to figure out what happened??
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Just thought of somthing would a camera tape survive an impact????


Most of the time, yes.. There is a video floating around out there(the same one Phreezone mentioned) of a PC1 that gets knocked off during deployment.. They recovered the camera, and the tape was salvagable.. Go to 'www.toxicsoda.com', click on skydiving, then video.. There are several there to download, including the PC1 in freefall..
There was a guy that went in several years ago with nothing out.. The video survived.. At around 2k you could see guys tracking away, and the guy with the camera fell stable until impact.. He was just looking around at the other guys.. Watched 'em deploy and everything..
Mike

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Have you seen on the movie Base (I think) at the end when the guy lands after doing a headdown with someone and you can see the shadow of the slider still at the top by the canopy

Yea..... the really funny part was after he "landed" (allthough I think touched-down might be more appropriate) he gets half up and yells "I'm OK.. I'm OK.... i fucked up...."

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