Skyhook cutaway(s) at Aggieland

[Jethers203 0]

Noone at Aggieland did a reserve only drill. There were only four people who jumped it the whole weekend including me. I went into a spin and then chopped the main. It was a great experience.

The rig was cool though. You could cutaway the reserve if you needed too and then use the belly reserve.

I still need a belly reserve jump.

[masher 1]

Has anyone got any pics of the rig?

sounds like fun...

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Arching is overrated - Marlies

[dmitch31 0]

Question on skyhook...

What makes the skyhook disconnect from your reserve pilot chute after it's extended? From the pictures I see, you're not towing the main...

[mr2mk1g 10]

nothing it attaches your main to your freebag not your reserve itself... the freebag simply comes off your reserve as normal on deployment.

[AggieDave 6]

Right. The PC is attatched to the Freebag on a reserve and that slides off the reserve canopy during opening.

Half the time the skyhook doesn't release the freebag/PC thus is it lands with your main, which could be very handy.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Aviatrr 0]

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Right. The PC is attatched to the Freebag on a reserve and that slides off the reserve canopy during opening.

Half the time the skyhook doesn't release the freebag/PC thus is it lands with your main, which could be very handy.

So what's to keep the reserve PC from fouling on a partially freed main(still hung up somewhere, such as a line trapped in a grommet)? I have not yet gotten to see the skyhook, so I'm not sure exactly how it works.

Mike

[AggieDave 6]

The attatchment is from a lanyard running from the RSL to the reserve PC bridle, its a decent length and I don't really see how it could get tangled. Then again, I'm not a rigger. Bill Booth is, so I'm sure he thought of that.

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[metalslug 36]

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So what's to keep the reserve PC from fouling on a partially freed main(still hung up somewhere, such as a line trapped in a grommet)? I have not yet gotten to see the skyhook, so I'm not sure exactly how it works.

Mike

I'm not sure if this answer helps you, my newbie mind may be misunderstanding the exact case scenario you have in mind, but...

The paragraph below is quoted from the Relative Workshop website:

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But what about when I cut away from a main horse shoe malfunction?
The broken away main risers would start to deploy your reserve, but couldn’t finish the job because the main pilot chute is entangled with you somehow. This is a bad situation, but the Skyhook does not make it worse. It’s basically a race between your reserve pilot chute and your broken away malfunction. Whichever is pulling harder wins the race. When your main risers stop pulling, the reserve pilot chute wins the race and deploys your reserve. The Skyhook may even help you in this situation, by assisting the reserve pilot chute out of the burble before it lets it go.

The attached diagram seems to theoreticaly support the idea of a 'race'. Whichever component has more drag, main or reserve PC, will extract the freebag.
This is also probably why the components stay together after most cutaways; the cutaway main on most rigs has more drag than the reserve PC so the bridle remains 'hooked' by the angle of the Skyhook.

Once again; I am no rigger and a newbie to the sport.. but I do read a lot. Forgive (and correct) me if I'm misleading anyone with an incorrect perception here.