As unsafe as it gets

[tunaplanet 0]

Stick with the 500 feet for something extremely dangerous and death-defying. Forget that nonsense of 150 feet. Isn't possible. Think of it this way...average TV is 5 seconds/1,000 feet. That breaks down to 1 second/200 feet.

If you want to use the poster's "150 foot pull is possible" that would mean pulling at 150 feet you would have 3/4 of a second for your shoot to come out, catch and land. Impossible.

Any skydiver reading your book could buy into pulling at 500 feet and living. 150 feet is illogical.

Forty-two

[billvon 2,991]

>Any skydiver reading your book could buy into pulling at 500 feet
>and living. 150 feet is illogical.

Depends. I saw Bill Legg pull at around 150 feet on a slider-up BASE jump at the NRGB. His main was open for perhaps 1/2 of a second before he hit the water. Wouldn't want to try it with a Spectre though.

[TomAiello 26]

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Forget that nonsense of 150 feet. Isn't possible.

By request, the footage of Dwain Weston pulling well below 500 feet (and pretty close to your "impossible" altitude) is now both on my web page and on the skydivingmovies.com server. It is called "DW Wires Low.mov".

Yes, he really does fly between the guy wires before deploying. Blue skies, Dwain.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

[rjf98 0]

I call Bullshit. Someone from MFF in Yuma want to chime in.

Most military FF jumps are pulled at altitudes usually laughed at by recreational skydivers.

caveat:
I have never been to MFF school, but know plenty of people who have. I am however an active duty Marine with Recon Background and jump school under my belt.

[kai2k1 0]

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Most military FF jumps are pulled at altitudes usually laughed at by recreational skydivers.

So whats the altitude??

There's no truer sense of flying than sky diving," Scott Cowan

[tunaplanet 0]

Majority of HALO jumps are pulled at 900-1,000 feet.

And yes, I have been to Arizona for MFF school. We trained there mainly in the winter.

Forty-two

[winsor 236]

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I am writing a fiction in which the main character needs to open his parachute in the last instant and he lands in water. Then he’s going to have to base jump and land again (some very bad dudes are after him). Can someone tell me what the minimum height is that a person (about 170 pounds) can open his parachute from and land unharmed? Not minimum safe height but minimum possible height (under ideal conditions). Also, can you repack a wet chute and expect it to work 4 hours later wet?

I've seen it done from 80' with a BASE rig and a static launch, and 240' with a skydiving rig from an airplane. It's kind of a hackneyed, Hollywood way to get away from the usual "bad dudes," and not terribly practical in reality.


Blue skies,

Winsor

[Seamonkey 0]

I will second the bullshit call.
I have never heard of a MFF jumper pulling at 1,000 ft. AGL. Hear at YPG if a jumper did go below the hard deck(min pull alt for students is 3750) his ARR would fire at 2500,and he would be recomended for release from the course. Furter more the REG that governs all MFF ops FM 31-19 states pull alt. of 4000.
So once agian i second the BS call


SEA MFFI 507