shorepiper82

I heard a pretty good story that I'll repeat here (can't think of who told me it to give credit where its due). A mother and daughter came out to do a tandem... the daughter went up first and the mother was on the ground acting very nervous. The TI and student were in freefall with the videographer. The mother sees the parachute open and looks very relieved and then someone walks up to her and points to the videographer still in freefall and shouts "OH MY GOD. HE DROPPED HER!"

I just got a call from someone that found the canopy... got lucky! now I just need to have them show me where they found it and aim back towards the DZ to find the freebag.

very true... it stayed partially inflated for some time. the packer knows a guy who flies an ultra light class powered parachute so that's been up and scanning the area... but hasn't found it from the air. I'm thinking this balled up when I couldn't watch it anymore. there's some houses and a ton of dirt bike tracks in the woods so I'm hoping a neighborhood kid happens on it... I put up a few flyers indicating a reward... that might be my best hope now!

I had a cutaway recently and after the first day of searching turned up no results. I'm trying to refine the search area (I know the wind line and direction of travel but distance is key... the DZ is in the poconos in heavily wooded terrain). Assuming the following, how far would you estimate the canopy drift? Canopy: Sabre 2 - 210 Malfunction: Line over (center cell, unclearable). Cutaway altitude: 2650 ft. Winds: Approximately 15mph.