Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site poseidon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!pegasus!phoenix!poseidon!brent From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Cutaway, Rocket reserves etc Message-ID: <1321@poseidon.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:21:38 EST Article-I.D.: poseidon.1321 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:21:38 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:14:30 EST References: <476@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <365@link.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 42 I've been watching a bit of TV the last few days: There was an episode of "The Brain" on PBS last night (great series). One sequence used a 1st jump as an example of a stressful situation. The exit & deployment were fine, but the poor devil got brainlocked into his count and pulled his reserve anyway. The reserve proceeded to wrap itself around his lines and stayed that way until a few hundred feet when it caught some air. There he was with two uncontrollable canopies. The sequence ended with him landing on the roof of a building and an edited-in "OOOF!". I can't imagine the same outcome if he had cutaway. Cutting away the main with two canopies out is a safe procedure. The main goes off to the rear and the student swings forwards under the reserve. There's no chance of the main snagging the reserve. I enjoyed "Amazing Stories" the other night where the gunner in the ball turret got stuck and the undercarriage wouldn't come down. Very suspensful. It's a pity he didn't know that the hole that got torn in his parachute would have reduced his descent rate (assuming it was near the periphery) and given hime some directional control to boot! I think the idea of rocket reserves is a joke. Reserves open plenty fast enough already. I can just imagine this: cramped up in a 185 with your buddy's rocket reserve & AOD just a few inches from your face when the pilot decides to spiral down... or being in the middle of a quadraplane with a rocket reserve aimed at your butt, then the cowboy stack pilot decides to spiral... Blue skies! -- Made in New Zealand --> Brent Callaghan AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ {ihnp4|mtuxo|pegasus}!poseidon!brent (201) 576-3475