Skyhook experience

[Rdutch 0]

Here's a repost of a letter I sent to Bill Booth

First load today, while training with my swoop team (FastraxSwoop) I had the nasties malfunction ever. We were exiting a caravan with no cut, so the exit speed was extremely high. After a 1 second delay I deployed my canopy. A combination of my instability from the exit and the propwash from the airplane spun my Velocity 96 up. It started to untwist itself faster and faster, after clearing itself it had so much speed it induced line twists the other way, then it took off! Spinning up all the way to my 3 rings. Now on my back in a high speed turn and decent (Neptune reading 88mph) I had no choice but to cutaway, the fact that I was loaded at 2.4 came to mind. I had a hard time reaching my cutaway because of the high G forces, but as soon as I cutaway I was greated with a beautiful yellow PD106 Reserve in what I would estimate in under a second. The only side effect was a busted lip from my risers being cutaway from in front of my face while I was on my back. Having test jumped the Skyhook for RWS and over 20 cutaways with it I had full trust in the product, but I can guarantee never in testing was a spin this fast induced. The Skyhook worked perfectly and my reserve deployed on heading. Thankyou for your support and for designing such a great product, I am happy to have a skyhook in my rig.

Ray
Small and fast what every girl dreams of!

[bodypilot1 0]

Glad to hear you just came away with a busted lip.

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I was loaded at 2.4

Someone gain some weight?


Be safe.....er
Ed

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[sundevil777 102]

I wouldn't think that propwash could affect anything after a 1 second delay before you even started to deploy.

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a busted lip from my risers being cutaway from in front of my face

I guess that is an advantage to mini 3-rings that is not usually appreciated. The std rings could hurt more.

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[Deuce 1]

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Here's a repost of a letter I sent to Bill Booth

First load today, while training with my swoop team (FastraxSwoop) I had the nasties malfunction ever. We were exiting a caravan with no cut, so the exit speed was extremely high. After a 1 second delay I deployed my canopy. A combination of my instability from the exit and the propwash from the airplane spun my Velocity 96 up. It started to untwist itself faster and faster, after clearing itself it had so much speed it induced line twists the other way, then it took off! Spinning up all the way to my 3 rings. Now on my back in a high speed turn and decent (Neptune reading 88mph) I had no choice but to cutaway, the fact that I was loaded at 2.4 came to mind. I had a hard time reaching my cutaway because of the high G forces, but as soon as I cutaway I was greated with a beautiful yellow PD106 Reserve in what I would estimate in under a second. The only side effect was a busted lip from my risers being cutaway from in front of my face while I was on my back. Having test jumped the Skyhook for RWS and over 20 cutaways with it I had full trust in the product, but I can guarantee never in testing was a spin this fast induced. The Skyhook worked perfectly and my reserve deployed on heading. Thankyou for your support and for designing such a great product, I am happy to have a skyhook in my rig.

Hey Dutch, you still pulled left anyhow, but the hook beat you, right?

[Rdutch 0]

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Glad to hear you just came away with a busted lip.

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I was loaded at 2.4

Someone gain some weight?


Be safe.....er
Ed

Lol no, IM still 165, I wear a LOT of weight for swooping.

Ray
Small and fast what every girl dreams of!

[Rdutch 0]

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Hey Dutch, you still pulled left anyhow, but the hook beat you, right?

[jimmytavino 16]

well done...tough situation..
what was the exit altitude????
if instabilty on exit was a factor,
why pull so quickly???
wouldn't it be better to get squared away
in the air first,,, and then pull ?
Deploying ONE second out the door, ( especially on a high speed jumprun ) is
like a batter who decides he's gonna swing before the pitch is even thrown.
skydive softly skydive often skydive with friends

[Amanda965 0]

Alana and Justi did a Skyhook demo this weekend at Skyfest. It was remarkable to see how quick the reserve deployed once they cutaway their main. Watching their demos actually further convinced that this is the way to go and I will be buying a new Vector with a Skyhook within the next month.

I am glad to hear that you had such a good experience with it as well and that everything was ok. This convinces me even more that this is the way to go!

Blue skies and SAFE landings!
~Amanda~

[BETO74 0]

I just got my micron 306 with skyhook in it and you just answer one of my biggest question how the skyhook performs under a spinning mal. Thanks bro

http://web.mac.com/ac057a/iWeb/AC057A/H0M3.html

[Amanda965 0]

My question is- since the reserve is coming out so quickly after the main, is there any risk of entanglement with this system?

Blue skies and SAFE landings!
~Amanda~

[billvon 2,995]

>is there any risk of entanglement with this system?

That's sort of how it _works._ Picture a main/reserve PC entanglement.

[Mirage63 0]

Does any one know if Bill Booth has started to sell this to other manufactors? Will it ever be offered as a retro to older rigs?

[hookncrater 0]

If you do a search the response is basically no and no as I understand it.

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