Solo jumper jumping with tandem

[Yung_Seezy 0]

I know that camera fliers jump with tandems but ive also seen pictures of people doing a group formations with a tandem in there. Are there any rules or requirments to doing this or would i be aloud to with just an A.

[PhreeZone 20]

Most tandem gear makers require 500 jumps to jump with a tandem

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[DougH 270]

Do a search, here and in the main forum.

Done wrong you can kill yourself, the instructor, or the student. It has happened in the past.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
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[riggerrob 643]

Chasing tandems might be "legal" with a D license, instructor rating, recent group freefall experience, etc. but USPA, the manufacturers and most DZOs discourage the practice.

Hint: the first (... or second) tandem fatality involved a "chaser" docking so hard that he broke the TI's neck!
The second tandem fatality involved a solo canopy trying to build a formation with an open tandem main. He docked so hard that he entangled with the tandem main canopy. The TI released his entangled main, but was unable to activate his reserve.
Both fatalities occurred before Cypres was invented.
We will learn nothing by repeating those mistakes.
Most TIs do not want the additional risk of being chased by unknown jumpers with unknown skills. Finally, few tandem students remember seeing the extra jumper during freefall.

[JohnMitchell 16]

riggerrob

Most TIs do not want the additional risk of being chased by unknown jumpers with unknown skills.

Known jumpers with known skills I have no problem.

[jurgencamps 0]

riggerrob

Hint: the first (... or second) tandem fatality involved a "chaser" docking so hard that he broke the TI's neck!

(If I can find back the old vector 2 tandem manual, with a list of those accidents.)
I think that he did not killed the TI, but the passenger, his own mother.

But the message is the same. The tandempair is a sitting duck.

[akarunway 1]

JohnMitchell

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Most TIs do not want the additional risk of being chased by unknown jumpers with unknown skills.

Known jumpers with known skills I have no problem.Correct. I did 2 tandem chases w/ my children at a couple 100 jumps. Docked at 6000' and was outta there. W approval of STA ,TI and vidoeit. Did land out tho watching my daughters' opening on my back. Flipped over and said HOLY SHIT. You went low. Over a river. Landed dead center football field.

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I feel it, when I sorrow most;
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Than never to have loved at all.

[Joellercoaster 6]

akarunway

I did 2 tandem chases w/ my children at a couple 100 jumps. Docked at 6000' and was outta there. W approval of STA ,TI and vidoeit. Did land out tho watching my daughters' opening on my back. Flipped over and said HOLY SHIT. You went low. Over a river. Landed dead center football field.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but: how do you feel now about your STA and the TI's willingness to let you jump with that tandem, compared to the recommendations (and in some cases requirements) of the manufacturers, which called for a different decision?

The recommendation is mostly there to protect the passenger but it's there to protect you too.

Glad you had a football field to land in!

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