how do you know when to pull the chute.

[brendhanbb 0]

i am just curious but how do you know when you are supposed to pull the chute i have never known this but yeah i am just curious how you know when the right time to pull is.

[rwieder 0]

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i am just curious but how do you know when you are supposed to pull the chute i have never known this but yeah i am just curious how you know when the right time to pull is

When you can see the hair on the cows backs, and the frogs on the ground. J/K!

[ridebmxbikes 0]

We use altimeters that tell us how high we are, eyes are another resource. After jumping for a while you can usually tell about how high you are.

[brendhanbb 0]

ridebmxbikes

We use altimeters that tell us how high we are, eyes are another resource. After jumping for a while you can usually tell about how high you are.

fair enough i guess its just about becoming more expeirenced and knowing but almost by instinct when to pull i guess.

[Aventador 0]

We also use audible altimeters we have in our helmets..

[normiss 800]

I too can tell how high you are from your eyes.

[jdkalou 0]

Don't let these guys pull your chain!!!!!!!!! We "pull the chute" when the pilot flies back past us with a "Two Thumbs UP" signal.

[woppyvac 0]

This has to be a troll....

Woot Woot!

[fastphil 0]

When people look like ants

[DougH 270]

I suggest you pull when ants look like people instead.

Or you could wait for the consensus on dizzy.com.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[Andy9o8 2]

Please stop starting a new thread for every question you have. You're clogging up space here by doing that, and it's annoying. Seriously.

Take a few minutes to think, then make a list of the various questions you have as a potential beginner, then put them in a single thread. That's the best way to get serious and polite responses.

[SivaGanesha 2]

brendhanbb

i am just curious but how do you know when you are supposed to pull the chute i have never known this but yeah i am just curious how you know when the right time to pull is.

Short answer: by wearing an altimeter and pulling at an agreed altitude.

Other answers: There are also audible altimeters that signal when it is time to pull. On tandem jumps the instructor may handle this 100% so the student/passenger doesn't have to worry about pulling. On AFF jumps, and SOLELY as a backup, an instructor will signal when it is time to pull if the student appears to be having trouble w/altitude awareness. When I did the static line progression back in the 80's, freefall delays of 10 sec or less were done via a count rather than with an altimeter, although I don't know if this is still standard practice for the static line progression.

"It's hard to have fun at 4-way unless your whole team gets down to the ground safely to do it again!"--Northern California Skydiving League re USPA Safety Day, March 8, 2014

[lowapproach 0]

fastphil

When people look like ants

and before the ants look like people

[mrubin 0]

When Bodhi is counting down the seconds to impact its time to drop the gun and pull.

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[xsniper 1]

....and if you wait too late, be sure to grab grass !!!!!!

[riggerrob 643]

When the planet dominates my peripheral vision.

AKA when I get "ground rush."

[Phil1111 1,149]

This video has all your answers. Watch it,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8RLpbgy8E

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Come back next week and tell us how it was.

Bring more clothes than she has.

[countzero 7]

after I've counted to 3. because if I take too long another dawg might swoop my slot.

diamonds are a dawgs best friend

[DJL 235]

I'm blind so I have to use a flare Beagle. When the leash goes slack and I hear a howl it's time to pull the chute.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[DougH 270]

Flare beagle! Bahaha.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[ShotterMG 0]

Andy is very concerned about clogging up space on DZ.com. The poor owners of this site hate it when new people join and Andy is very worried about the cost to these poor owners. Which is why he has limited his posts to just over 21600. Please, have some respect for the struggling owners of this website. Luckily they have Andy to watch out for them. Too many people spend their time worrying about homelessness and poverty and stuff. DZ.com owners are being overlooked! But not by Andy thank God.

[lowapproach 0]

Now that was funny.

[DrDom 0]

DJL

I'm blind so I have to use a flare Beagle. When the leash goes slack and I hear a howl it's time to pull the chute.

oh god this is hilarious... I'm just using the visual and... I just snarfed my coffee

I was told "When people look like ants: PULL. When ants look like people: PRAY"

You are not the contents of your wallet.

[377 22]

When I started in 68 I couldn't afford an altimeter. My first 35 jumps were made without one. I just counted out seconds. It works. If you lose track you can just pull.

My first altimeter was a big military surplus aircraft instrument with a homemade belly reserve mount that I made from a piece of aluminum using a hacksaw, a nibbling tool and a file. What safety it added in altitude awareness it subtracted in being a snag hazard.

Now I have two audibles, a wrist and a chest pillow mounted visual altimeter. I love gadgets. But I was actually more tuned in to altitude when I had no altimeter. I literally thought about it every second as I counted them off.

377

2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

[flyhi 24]

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pay for your jump here is a good place: http://www.parachutemontreal.ca/

Something's wrong with that site.

I couldn't read a goddam word on it.

Shit happens. And it usually happens because of physics.