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The FAA doesn't care about your main. Their only interest is the harness/container system and the reserve canopy as these two items make up the "emergency parachute" system.

Like Mike said, anyone can swap out a main legally. As far as I know, a non-rigger can also legally patch, repair, and even modify a main canopy. Now whether you would want a non-rigger to do any sewing on your main is another question entirely!

pull and flare,
lisa
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I am a nobody.
Nobody's perfect.
Therefore, I am perfect!


The FAA says a main must be packed by the person who jumps it unless it is packed by a rigger.
Sparky
My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals

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ahhh....yes the word direct. If you do a search of this site there has been plenty of discussions about this.

I even know of one DPRE who considered directly supervising a reserve packjob to include him being on a plane while the rig was being packed. *shrug*
Fly it like you stole it!

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ahhh....yes the word direct. If you do a search of this site there has been plenty of discussions about this.

I even know of one DPRE who considered directly supervising a reserve packjob to include him being on a plane while the rig was being packed. *shrug*


Unless there is a problem that results in the FAA stepping in its a moot point. If they become involved the rigger in question better damn well know the definition of "direct".
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Direct means .... being there...... observing what is going on... not going to Burger King or chatting on the phone..... When I watch the packers at my DZ I am in direct contact with the packers... either by just being up close chating with them.. about anything... mainly skydiving..... but also I am watching what they are doing.... correcting anything that could be wrong........

this is direct observations.. IF the rigger is not doing this he should be... but a word here... The rigger needs to use Tact on this.... not ordering... but doing it diplomatially..... Not lIke we did in Iraq... But Diplomacy did not work for 12 yrs with them...

Thank you,
Ken..

FAA Parachute Rigger..
Kenneth Potter
FAA Senior Parachute Rigger
Tactical Delivery Instructor (Jeddah, KSA)
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Whew! Is this a blast from the past post, or what? ;)

I made it 1885 jumps without a malfunction, then had two within 100 jumps of each other, equipment failure on the same canopy. I promptly retired it. :S

I have a friend with 2500 jumps or so and no malfunctions.

I was also at the 2001 Symposium in San Diego, in TK Donle's tandem seminar. He went around the room asking about numbers of tandem jumps to get a feel for the experience in the room. There was one fella from Australia who had over 5000 tandems and no malfunctions. Amazing . . . truly amazing.
Arrive Safely

John

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i know my stats:
3 chops in first 36 jumps. first 2 due to shitty student gear and last one cuz i hadn't been trained to hook up a canopy and hooked it up backerds. marcus gave me a good dressing down and havent had one since. i think i got all my cutaways out of the way early on..:P
namaste, motherfucker.

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...or not understanding the law of independent trials.

However, as a jumper has more and more jumps under his belt without cutaways or accidents, one may make a case that this is a person who(perhaps through careful equipment examination, packing procedures, and conservative landing maneuvers) falls into a cohort of the population whose statistics are better than average and is less and less likely to have a malfunction.
AMDG

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