Thread: Stepped thru a skylight

So that’s what’s called a bag lock, the main canopy is stuck inside it’s container, trailing behind you. It’s classed as a high speed malfunction (you’re still traveling at terminal velocity) and requires deployment of the reserve. Cut away is generally a two stage process unless you’re jumping a student rig that is single stage. First you pull the release handle. This should pull the retainers out of the bridle on the main risers on the harness and it disappears. Once you’ve cleared the cut away handle from its tube, pull the reserve. No knife is used, but the effect is the same, you say goodbye to the main. It’s very undesirable to have both canopies out at once because of the chance of entanglement, and if you don’t get an entangled reserve it can be very difficult to fly it still having the main attached to the riser on the harness.
High speed malfunctions require the jumper to make key decisions very quickly and under a lot of duress. You’re at terminal velocity with no functioning canopy and you are below minimum deployment altitude. Things get real really quickly. In Australia min deployment is 2500 feet and you need 400 feet to get a canopy deployed, 2100 feet isn’t long at terminal velocity.

Ive probably met your brother at a drop zone somewhere..

My bro used to do a but of jumping in Darwin whilst he working on the Gove start up.( Being a sparky he also had a flash from live gear wot sent him blind for a few daze).

He had a chute not open until very low/late and it spun him violently and broke his leg.
The club he was in used to pack their chutes in the beer garden of the Darwin Hotel.

He later took up gliding and so my mum who was 80 plus went up for a joyride, the winch cable broke and so they came down quite suddenly. We hastened over to make sure she wasn’t shaken up and when we opened the canopy she said “does this mean I get to have another flight?”

I seem ok so far main prob my right ligament/tendon whatever wot attaches the upper muscle on my right arm has been damaged or torn off its attachment point and so I have that Popeye look according to a rude mate.
Getting an MRI on it at noon today.
More scans on the brain next week also to check nothings changed.
H.

Originally Posted by clear out

My bro used to do a but of jumping in Darwin whilst he working on the Gove start up.( Being a sparky he also had a flash from live gear wot sent him blind for a few daze).

He had a chute not open until very low/late and it spun him violently and broke his leg.
The club he was in used to pack their chutes in the beer garden of the Darwin Hotel.

He later took up gliding and so my mum who was 80 plus went up for a joyride, the winch cable broke and so they came down quite suddenly. We hastened over to make sure she wasn’t shaken up and when we opened the canopy she said “does this mean I get to have another flight?”

I seem ok so far main prob my right ligament/tendon whatever wot attaches the upper muscle on my right arm has been damaged or torn off its attachment point and so I have that Popeye look according to a rude mate.
Getting an MRI on it at noon today.
More scans on the brain next week also to check nothings changed.
H.

Again all the best with it Henry, I'm sure that we all hope for a full and speedy recovery for you. With respect to the gliding, my brother Peter who was the skydiver has also for some time been gliding, and he took our uncle up for a flight in a glider on our Uncle Tom's 80th birthday. They did a loop the loop which Tom enjoyed, or perhaps the smiles were because he was finally on terra firma and the more firmer the less terror. That was out of Mildura, and would have been back in 1995.