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Bluhdow 31
I've done a few google searches but nothing very clear presented itself.
Thanks!
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SkyChimp 0
More importantly, it appears as if the jumper has no idea how to fly an F-111 7-cell. If you notice the flare, it's not complete and she times it so her hands are the furthest down at the same time she hits the ground. If this was a Z-po main, that type of flare and timing would have worked out fine, on a reserve, not so much.
I completely agree with this.... These materials have huge differences in flight characteristics. I flew an F111 7-cell at 120 jumps and to this day my right ankel doesn't feel right.
Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!
racerman 0
JohnMitchell 16
I appreciate your POV, and there is something to be said for staying with your training. But by 130 jumps, you should be able to make intelligent choices in your EP's and train yourself accordingly. By that many jumps I had switched from rounds to squares, front mount to piggy backs, ripcords to hand deploys. Except for how to fly a square canopy, I was left to my own to figure out and retrain my EP's. Seemed to have done alright.
We don't know how she was taught; I'd argue that doing whatever method you've been taught and have practiced is more important than doing one method or the other (and there are plenty of other threads to argue the relative merits of one vs. the other). At only 130 jumps, she's likely using whatever technique she learned as a student. I agree with the rest of your list, but I'd argue this one wasn't a safety concern at all.
And I give props to the jumper for posting the video. Most folks would not do so for fear of the possible abuse. It has opened the conversation about what our EPs should be. So we can all be reminded without the pain of a broken bone.
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nigel99 474
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdbRcJfqtVU
Any thoughts besides a terrible PLF?
Well unless I missed a post nobody has mentioned spotting. The very first thing that I noticed was the complete and utter lack of spotting. As far as I could tell not 1 person bothered to check out the door for traffic and the spot
pchapman 279
it appears as if the jumper has no idea how to fly an F-111 7-cell.
I got another reminder of that today when a local jumper, with maybe 500-700 jumps, had his first reserve ride. He's an average sized guy but that means he was loading his PD 113 pretty heavily. When he flared, he says he brought the toggles down to his shoulders fairly early, waited a few seconds to get lower, and then finished his flare. Not exactly the best way to do it. Luckily it was a soft muddy field that he pounded hard into, and he was uninjured.
totter 2
You can kind of tell that she was a creature of habit. Totally prepared for a normal canopy, but not a reserve ride.
She had an issue unstowing the toggles and then when she reached up, not once, but twice and try to collapse the slider.
All aside, though, she did save her own life regardless of how ugly it looked on camera.
It's probably her first reserve ride and I know that I,myself, always was thinking; "How will I handle it." With the sensory overload the whole cutaway/deployment was probably a blur in real time.
Hopefully she will have a quick recovery, be back in the saddle and be able to learn from what is shown on the video
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Squeak 17
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We don't know how she was taught; I'd argue that doing whatever method you've been taught and have practiced is more important than doing one method or the other (and there are plenty of other threads to argue the relative merits of one vs. the other). At only 130 jumps, she's likely using whatever technique she learned as a student. I agree with the rest of your list, but I'd argue this one wasn't a safety concern at all.
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