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From: wmbabineau@watmath.UUCP (W. Michael Babineau)
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Subject: Re: Cutaway, Rocket reserves etc
Message-ID: <17162@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:00:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 09:00:55 1985
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> ....................................  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.

I have seen this type of thing happen on several ocassions where second
or third jump students were doing TRCP's and went for the reserve ripcord
( front mounted reserves ) instead of the TRC. I have yet see to the reserve
and main tangle in this type of situation ( too bad I missed the show ).

The instructors at the DZ I started out at always told the student not to
cut away if the main and reserve were both deployed o.k. ....makes for a soft
landing but its no fun to spend an hour in the woods with a chain saw trying
to get the poor sucker out of the trees.........


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                                                W. Michael Babineau
                                                Multiprocessor Systems Group,
                                                Dept. of Computer Science,
                                                University of Waterloo.
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