Student Emergency Exit Training- One Handle or Two

[popsjumper 2]

Ahhhh!
I think my light just came on!

You're asking, for emergency bailout, do you teach:
1) always pull reserve handle, or
2) always pull main handle, or
3) pull either reserve or main dependent on altitude, or
4) simply pull SOS handle

Do I now understand correctly?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Andrewwhyte 1]

OR
"Go to reserve."
But that is a two handle process because the decision is made that the waste of time for the unnecessary cutaway is better than the possibility of a reserve pull only during a real malfunction because you taught two different procedures during one five hour course.
This is an extension of the question of teaching a one handle pull or two for a pilot chute in tow. Besides the technical arguement of which is less likely to cause problems, there is the question of the wisdom of making the assessment/reaction chain more complex. The fatality in italy recently appears to have been a junior jumper pulling the reserve without cutting away. This prompts the question: Are we better off teaching a one size fits all physical response to a wide range of problems- partial mal, p/c in tow, total mal, emergency bail out?

[popsjumper 2]

Now we are changing topics but WTH, another light comes on... K.I.S.S or Time/Altitude.

I work with AFFIs who are divided on that. Some say keep it simple by only teaching "cutaway and deploy the reserve" in all situations. Some say teach save time and altitude.

I subscribe to the T/A approach.
Totals, IMHO, are no-brainers and I believe even a Level 1 student can handle recognizing a total and deploying a reserve.

As for the PCIT. You well know that the "proper" procedure is pretty much 50-50 amongst schools. There was another thread, or 20, about that.

Here, we teach deploy reserve for a PCIT.

Again, as to the emergency exits, we teach one handle depending on altitude and the Instructor's call - either Main Deployment OR Reserve Deployment, never cutaway first.


Sadly, IMHO, there is no catch-all for students. Doesn't matter what you teach, some students are just not going to perform as taught. Most escape injury, some don't.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239