Reserve too small?

[nigel99 569]

riggerrob

***Sorry, I'm quite lost. Are we actually seeing an increase in "two-outs" especially since your post indicates AADs have gotten better and better.

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I was being sarcastic about the 30-year trend.
Before Cypres, hardly any licensed skydivers wore AADs and 2-out malfunctions were rare.
We saw a dramatic increase in 2-outs when Cypres was introduced (early 1990s).
However, 2-outs have decreased as skydivers have become more altitude-aware.

And we are about to repeat the cycle as the newer generation of AAD's with higher activiation altitudes become more mainstream

Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

[riggerrob 643]

nigel99

******Sorry, I'm quite lost. Are we actually seeing an increase in "two-outs" especially since your post indicates AADs have gotten better and better.

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I was being sarcastic about the 30-year trend.
Before Cypres, hardly any licensed skydivers wore AADs and 2-out malfunctions were rare.
We saw a dramatic increase in 2-outs when Cypres was introduced (early 1990s).
However, 2-outs have decreased as skydivers have become more altitude-aware.

And we are about to repeat the cycle as the newer generation of AAD's with higher activiation altitudes become more mainstream

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POPS leaning back in their lawn chairs ... sipping lemonade and waiting for the lessons to begin.

[champu 1]

When you get down into smaller main sizes it gets easier to downsize without changing your container because cross-braced canopies have much more material for a given size (if you decide to go really small) and because the absolute sizes of the canopy aren't changing that much, so it's easier to keep that larger reserve.

I have two rigs (mirages) one is an MT and one is an MX-1/2. The MT holds a PDR-126 very nicely (might be able to put an optimum 143 in there, haven't tried), and I've jumped it with a Sabre2 135 down to a Velo 90. That's an enormous range of downsizing in terms of performance and the number of jumps it requires as compared to, say, going from a 210 to a 190 to a 170 which would be more of a stretch for a rig (pun intended.) At no point did I feel compelled to get a rig with a smaller reserve.