Not that I remember, but I haven't jumped in a decade. There is an auto deploy device that fires when certain perimeters are met, altitude, speed, deployment status, but its usually I think your back up chute, I don't know how it would work if the primary chute wasn't deployed.
When I went rec jumping we never had one.
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I'm unfamiliar with how easy it is to manipulate how you maneuver in free fall, so I'm not sure how insanely impressive it was of the instructor to get there... but that was insanely impressive.
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I'm unfamiliar with how easy it is to manipulate how you maneuver in free fall, so I'm not sure how insanely impressive it was of the instructor to get there... but that was insanely impressive.
What the instructor did was crazy. The catch up alone and getting into position to deploy the chute was probably not easy.
Basically the person having the seizure was in true free fall. usually you use the spread position to slow your decent, he was tumbling like a rock the only way he would have gone faster was if his body was in the shape of a dart.
Basically that instructor should never have to buy a drink again.
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CC- if the person with the seizure did not regain consciousness, with the chute deployed would he still have likely survived landing?
Probably unlikely. He would continue tumbling and wouldn't be able to control the landing and he could land on his head or the parachute could have become tangled, etc.
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CC- if the person with the seizure did not regain consciousness, with the chute deployed would he still have likely survived landing?
At the very least he'd be hurt bad, with that style of chute you have to be able to turn into the wind to slow yourself down and you have to control your landing so you don't go face forward.
With the older style drop chutes, yeah you'd survive but probably be messed up.
With the sailing style of chute, it would be like standing on the nose of an airplane during a landing.
The helmet would protect his head, but he'd probably bounce and drag.
The guy regained consciousness and his facilities and made a landing but I think his jumping days are done.
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Jumping out of a plane that is working fine is stupid.
Nope, nope, nope.
you sir.... are wrong! it's soooooooo much fun!!!!
the two times i did it (both from 10,000 ft) were both tandem and we'd have a true free-fall for a few seconds (we did a couple flips and rolls... just for fun!), but then a really small chute would open until we'd hit the elevation where the primary chute would be deployed
for the above video - glad the instructor came thru! did anyone else have james bond music going thru their head as the instructor tried to catch up to the guy?
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you sir.... are wrong! it's soooooooo much fun!!!!
the two times i did it (both from 10,000 ft) were both tandem and we'd have a true free-fall for a few seconds (we did a couple flips and rolls... just for fun!), but then a really small chute would open until we'd hit the elevation where the primary chute would be deployed
Tandem.....so you were strapped to the front of another man, your anus was rubbing the junk of another male from 10,000 ft down.......
nope, nope and nope
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Sky diving is something I just don't think I could bring myself to do.
We were debating going to a place near innisfail (Innisfall? Inisfall? Stupid) and the next day we found out that they had a fatality a weeks prior. That definitely killed the sky diving buzz.
We were debating going to a place near innisfail (Innisfall? Inisfall? Stupid) and the next day we found out that they had a fatality a weeks prior. That definitely killed the sky diving buzz.
That is the drop zone where I jump.
Their last fatality had nothing to do with any kind of equipment or jumper error. Just FYI.
Anyways sky diving is something I had wanted to do for a long time and I was hooked the second I completed my first tandem.. then it was goodbye any extra cash I had in my wallet.
Like CC said that instructor will never pay for another drink while at his DZ... legendary status achieved.
Their last fatality had nothing to do with any kind of equipment or jumper error. Just FYI.
Anyways sky diving is something I had wanted to do for a long time and I was hooked the second I completed my first tandem.. then it was goodbye any extra cash I had in my wallet.
Like CC said that instructor will never pay for another drink while at his DZ... legendary status achieved.
I've never jumped tandom, I don't want to be strapped to another dude, period end of story.
I first jumped when I took the Airborne course, where you basically throw yourself out of a plane, the chute is linked to a static line and opens right away.
I took a civilian jump course when I left the Military, and had the biggest problem with crawling out on the wing, and the second biggest problem with the whole responsible for deploying my own chute, and the third biggest problem, with the fact that you're basically flying your own air plane on he way down, it wasn't a drop, it was a coast.
I enjoyed it a lot and made a ton of jumps, before I had to stop because of knee problems.
Best way to get over a fear of high heights.
Plus the video of your first jump is worth the price of admission.
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Guy has a seizure while skydiving
