skydiverek 63 #1 February 23, 2005 Anyone Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mr2mk1g 10 #2 February 23, 2005 no... but I watched a guy cut away a good main on his first jump because he couldn’t look up to see it. He told me everything felt like it opened ok but because he couldn’t ‘check canopy’ as instructed, he cutaway – just to be on the safe side. then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rasmack 0 #3 February 23, 2005 If we can share I-know-a-guy stories, I have two: The day I made my first jump, one of the other first-timers had some line twists. He kicked out of them just fine, but one of the toggles apparently got stuck to the opposite side risers. As he could not reach it to free it, he elected to perform his EP. The other story was a guy who got the PC under his arm on his first jump (SL). He made no attempt to clear it. He did not perform his EP. He just lay there, until the FXC saved his ass. He does not skydive any more.HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yarpos 4 #4 February 23, 2005 No quite on topic, but on my attempted first jump we had an engine failure at take off (interesting cause it only had one) It was also my first flight in an aircrafy of any kind. Was good though, I was so nervous worrying about the plane when we finally went the jump itself seemed like a relief. Managed 250 takeoffs before I ever landed in an aeroplane. Felt weird, I always thought planes normally flew nose high on max power, anything else felt like falling out of the sky Steveregards, Steve the older I get...the better I was Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Erroll 80 #5 February 23, 2005 QuoteIf we can share I-know-a-guy stories..... Whem my ex did her FJC we were using a C182 and the SL exit was standing with one foot on the wheel and the other flying, hands hanging on to the strut. On GO she pushed herself off (instead of just hopping off), falling into her SL, which dislodged the reserve pin. Her main deployed ok but while doing control checks she noticed this plastic bag dangling over her arm. She promptly threw it away and in the process caused her Reserve to deploy. Fortunately we were still using round reserves and she landed safely with both. So she had reserve ride as well as a two-out. She never jumped again after that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites kevinwhelan 0 #6 February 23, 2005 *** The other story was a guy who got the PC under his arm on his first jump (SL). Can you explain this? I did static line and we had no pc just the bag pulled out by the line. Didn't have a mal on my first but had 3 in my first 60 "be honest with yourself. Why do I want to go smaller? It is not going to make my penis longer." ~Brian Germain, on downsizing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites rasmack 0 #7 February 23, 2005 The SL pulls a ripcord. Spring loaded PC comes out. Jumper has poor body position... We have also now switched to a direct bag setup as you describe.HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites okalb 104 #8 February 23, 2005 I have an old friend who cut away closed end cells on his first jump. AFF level 1 he looks up, see's closed end cells, freaks out and chops it. Years later when he had 500 jumps he was still being teased about it. -OKTime flies like an arrow....fruit flies like a banana Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites GTAVercetti 0 #9 February 23, 2005 Quote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites wmw999 2,444 #10 February 23, 2005 I had a good friend (many jumps in the long run) who went badly unstable on his first jump, and cut away because his feet were trapped in the lines. Obviously this was a static line jump. He said he didn't want to land on his head. It never occurred to him (with one jump) that his feet might not separate from the lines and he might end up with 2 canopies. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites MrRick 0 #11 February 23, 2005 QuoteQuote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Just a thouht here and not to step on any ones toes would it be possible for the instructors to show the studends a picture of a good canopy and where the slider will end up on good canopy and explain the purpose of the slider. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Travman 6 #12 February 23, 2005 QuoteQuoteQuote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Just a thouht here and not to step on any ones toes would it be possible for the instructors to show the studends a picture of a good canopy and where the slider will end up on good canopy and explain the purpose of the slider. The certainly explained that well at my FJC (with pics), yet one of the instructors did tell me about a student that cutaway because they couldn't get the slider to go back up, and the same "mal" happened on the reserve. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bob.dino 1 #13 February 23, 2005 Another a-student-at-our-DZ story: A student loses altitude awareness on first AFF jump and is dumped out by instructor. Canopy opens. Student decides it's time to deploy, so looks for ripcord, can't find it, and initiates emergency procedures. Instructor's reaction: "Did you not notice the open canopy above your head?!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites artbel 0 #14 February 25, 2005 not quite my first but... After having been inactive for 5 years due to an accident, I took my new first jump ( it was actually nr. 84) and met a round canopy at 10 000ft. This happened due to an opened reserve flap and a JM (who couldn't keep up with me) hitting it with his helmet when he was pulled out of balance because I sped up during testpulls It was a long HELL of a way to get back on the ground after these 5 years. Gut hey, you jump, you live, you jump again. RIGHT? IMO this comes close to having a reserve on the first jump. Hehehe Greetz QYou don't need a parachute to jump but YOU DO if want to do it again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites billvon 2,990 #15 February 25, 2005 I've been there when two people did. Both were tandem students of mine. One didn't believe that it had really happened; he was asking people in the bus "is he shitting me?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites cbennettjr 0 #16 February 25, 2005 QuoteIf we can share I-know-a-guy stories... I'm on jump numer 16 doing a solo out of a C-206 and a student is on his final Hop-n-Pop. Out the door, stable, pull...total crap. Cut it, Reserve, no problems. He even landed in the peas. Kind of neat to watch up close like that. Gave me faith in the reserve. He was perfectly calm about the whole thing. More than his family was, watching from the DZ. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites superstu 0 #17 February 25, 2005 on my 26th jump i witnessed a guy doing his 35th jump who had pilotchute hesitation and pulled his reserve instead of cutting away first then had 2 out and were intangled with each other, he went into a tree spinning when i was at about 2grand i heard branches snapping. and oh yea, that was his 3rd cutaway in 35 jumps!!! needless to say that was a shocker to me.Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bobsled92 0 #18 February 26, 2005 1st jump in 5 1/2 years. Recurrency with Doug Forth. JUmp went great. Open canopy, light turning to right. no streering. (I repacked and thought I fixed the walk through...flipped rig wrong way & and didn't check it for a month prior) Heasing off towards the movie theater in CrossKeys, I cut. 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mr2mk1g 10 #2 February 23, 2005 no... but I watched a guy cut away a good main on his first jump because he couldn’t look up to see it. He told me everything felt like it opened ok but because he couldn’t ‘check canopy’ as instructed, he cutaway – just to be on the safe side. then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #3 February 23, 2005 If we can share I-know-a-guy stories, I have two: The day I made my first jump, one of the other first-timers had some line twists. He kicked out of them just fine, but one of the toggles apparently got stuck to the opposite side risers. As he could not reach it to free it, he elected to perform his EP. The other story was a guy who got the PC under his arm on his first jump (SL). He made no attempt to clear it. He did not perform his EP. He just lay there, until the FXC saved his ass. He does not skydive any more.HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yarpos 4 #4 February 23, 2005 No quite on topic, but on my attempted first jump we had an engine failure at take off (interesting cause it only had one) It was also my first flight in an aircrafy of any kind. Was good though, I was so nervous worrying about the plane when we finally went the jump itself seemed like a relief. Managed 250 takeoffs before I ever landed in an aeroplane. Felt weird, I always thought planes normally flew nose high on max power, anything else felt like falling out of the sky Steveregards, Steve the older I get...the better I was Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erroll 80 #5 February 23, 2005 QuoteIf we can share I-know-a-guy stories..... Whem my ex did her FJC we were using a C182 and the SL exit was standing with one foot on the wheel and the other flying, hands hanging on to the strut. On GO she pushed herself off (instead of just hopping off), falling into her SL, which dislodged the reserve pin. Her main deployed ok but while doing control checks she noticed this plastic bag dangling over her arm. She promptly threw it away and in the process caused her Reserve to deploy. Fortunately we were still using round reserves and she landed safely with both. So she had reserve ride as well as a two-out. She never jumped again after that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kevinwhelan 0 #6 February 23, 2005 *** The other story was a guy who got the PC under his arm on his first jump (SL). Can you explain this? I did static line and we had no pc just the bag pulled out by the line. Didn't have a mal on my first but had 3 in my first 60 "be honest with yourself. Why do I want to go smaller? It is not going to make my penis longer." ~Brian Germain, on downsizing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rasmack 0 #7 February 23, 2005 The SL pulls a ripcord. Spring loaded PC comes out. Jumper has poor body position... We have also now switched to a direct bag setup as you describe.HF #682, Team Dirty Sanchez #227 “I simply hate, detest, loathe, despise, and abhor redundancy.” - Not quite Oscar Wilde... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
okalb 104 #8 February 23, 2005 I have an old friend who cut away closed end cells on his first jump. AFF level 1 he looks up, see's closed end cells, freaks out and chops it. Years later when he had 500 jumps he was still being teased about it. -OKTime flies like an arrow....fruit flies like a banana Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GTAVercetti 0 #9 February 23, 2005 Quote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Why yes, my license number is a palindrome. Thank you for noticing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,444 #10 February 23, 2005 I had a good friend (many jumps in the long run) who went badly unstable on his first jump, and cut away because his feet were trapped in the lines. Obviously this was a static line jump. He said he didn't want to land on his head. It never occurred to him (with one jump) that his feet might not separate from the lines and he might end up with 2 canopies. Wendy W.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrRick 0 #11 February 23, 2005 QuoteQuote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Just a thouht here and not to step on any ones toes would it be possible for the instructors to show the studends a picture of a good canopy and where the slider will end up on good canopy and explain the purpose of the slider. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Travman 6 #12 February 23, 2005 QuoteQuoteQuote then there's the perennial story of students who cutaway because they couldn't pump the slider back up... Yup, we had at least 2 students do this last summer: "The slider did not go back up, so I chopped! And then...and then, the slider on the reserve stayed down too so I had to just ride that in anyway!!" Just a thouht here and not to step on any ones toes would it be possible for the instructors to show the studends a picture of a good canopy and where the slider will end up on good canopy and explain the purpose of the slider. The certainly explained that well at my FJC (with pics), yet one of the instructors did tell me about a student that cutaway because they couldn't get the slider to go back up, and the same "mal" happened on the reserve. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob.dino 1 #13 February 23, 2005 Another a-student-at-our-DZ story: A student loses altitude awareness on first AFF jump and is dumped out by instructor. Canopy opens. Student decides it's time to deploy, so looks for ripcord, can't find it, and initiates emergency procedures. Instructor's reaction: "Did you not notice the open canopy above your head?!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
artbel 0 #14 February 25, 2005 not quite my first but... After having been inactive for 5 years due to an accident, I took my new first jump ( it was actually nr. 84) and met a round canopy at 10 000ft. This happened due to an opened reserve flap and a JM (who couldn't keep up with me) hitting it with his helmet when he was pulled out of balance because I sped up during testpulls It was a long HELL of a way to get back on the ground after these 5 years. Gut hey, you jump, you live, you jump again. RIGHT? IMO this comes close to having a reserve on the first jump. Hehehe Greetz QYou don't need a parachute to jump but YOU DO if want to do it again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 2,990 #15 February 25, 2005 I've been there when two people did. Both were tandem students of mine. One didn't believe that it had really happened; he was asking people in the bus "is he shitting me?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbennettjr 0 #16 February 25, 2005 QuoteIf we can share I-know-a-guy stories... I'm on jump numer 16 doing a solo out of a C-206 and a student is on his final Hop-n-Pop. Out the door, stable, pull...total crap. Cut it, Reserve, no problems. He even landed in the peas. Kind of neat to watch up close like that. Gave me faith in the reserve. He was perfectly calm about the whole thing. More than his family was, watching from the DZ. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
superstu 0 #17 February 25, 2005 on my 26th jump i witnessed a guy doing his 35th jump who had pilotchute hesitation and pulled his reserve instead of cutting away first then had 2 out and were intangled with each other, he went into a tree spinning when i was at about 2grand i heard branches snapping. and oh yea, that was his 3rd cutaway in 35 jumps!!! needless to say that was a shocker to me.Slip Stream Air Sports Do not go softly, do not go quietly, never back down Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #18 February 26, 2005 1st jump in 5 1/2 years. Recurrency with Doug Forth. JUmp went great. Open canopy, light turning to right. no streering. (I repacked and thought I fixed the walk through...flipped rig wrong way & and didn't check it for a month prior) Heasing off towards the movie theater in CrossKeys, I cut. Nice Lt.blue canopy as my dark blue caopny, fully inflated, floats by my wife & sister....empty._______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
