Beware of long grass

[mickb 0]

Hi all

just liked to share an incident that happened to me on Friday.
second jump of the day and setting up for landing flew through
a small patch of long grass surrounding the area.
well you can guess what's coming next.
put my right foot through a loop of grass it stopped I didn't
it twisted me around and inadvertently I hauled down on the left toggle
canopy hit the ground before I did.
end result no bones broken but damaged tendons right leg
and bruising to my neck and shoulders.
I was lucky it could have been much worse
beware the long grass
lets be careful out there

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Michael Pritchard.

[PhreeZone 20]

Crops such as soy beans present a much worse version of that too. If you have to land in them try to imagine the top of the crops being the ground and stall just as you reach there, it will then just drop you the last foot or two into the crops with less forward speed.

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[skymedic 0]

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Crops such as soy beans present a much worse version of that too

I know this from first hand experience landing in the field across the active landing run way at WFFC...NOT fun at all...My legs stopped and my body and canopy kept flying...lucky for me it was only a bruised ego I had....

Marc
otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman....

[Kris 0]

Damn, Marc. I thought I was the only one the bean-field snagged.

There I was, enjoying my swoop and then it was lurch, stop, crunch. I was a little sore and a bit muddy but thankfully nothing was broken.

Kris

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[jceman 1]

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Damn, Marc. I thought I was the only one the bean-field snagged.

There I was, enjoying my swoop and then it was lurch, stop, crunch. I was a little sore and a bit muddy but thankfully nothing was broken.

Kris

You two aren't the only ones. I found this out on the first jump I ever did at WFFC in 1998. Swooping nicely into the edge of the alternate landing area by the RV area -- going nicely until I touched down 10 feet short of the open area. Snag!

I face planted in the soybeans, and my canopy fell nicely onto a camper's packing mat. His comment? "Might as well pack here, canopy's flaked out nicely!"

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[Samurai136 0]

Come to Iowa and swoop the corn in july.

Ken

"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

[PhreeZone 20]

Knee high at the fourth of july corn is fun to swoop... just don't land in it. Landing in full hight corn is tricky, someone know how to better then me since my 2 landings were far from graceful into the corn.

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[jessefs 0]

On my corn landing, at first I was worried about one of those little stalk spears going through my foot, after that, it was getting all the damn lines untangled...

[Chief 0]

I agree, landing in full grown corn took about 20 minutes just to un-tangle and retrieve the lines. I had corn silk falling out of the canopy for the next 4 jumps. Not something I want to do again in the very near future. Stay Safe

[JeffGordon 0]

I agree. It take a lot of time to untangle from the corn all the time thinking "I hope this guy isn't going to shoot me" and "I wonder which way I need to go to get out of here"

[SkySlut 0]

Sorry to hear about that...hear quick!!!

Coming from New England...Snow can do the same thing. You dont know whether it is 2 feet or 2 inches. Also, if you have that crusty crap on top and the snow is deep...you can stop in your tracks. Pop! Busted knee. I have seen it happen.

Not to mention the lack of depth perception...