Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nyit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!nyit!mark From: mark@nyit.UUCP (Mark Smith) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Cutaway, Rocket reserves etc Message-ID: <135@nyit.UUCP> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 12:52:27 EST Article-I.D.: nyit.135 Posted: Sun Nov 10 12:52:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 07:39:01 EST References: <476@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <365@link.UUCP> <1321@poseidon.UUCP> Organization: NYIT Computer Graphics Lab., Old Westbury, N.Y. Lines: 23 > 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'm no expert on the subject, but I've really been checking up on it. Isn't it better to come down on your main, that is if everything is okay with it, than to come down on your reserve. I was instructed to deflate the reserve by pulling on the lines furthest from me and bunching it up between my legs. It made sense to me, and that's the way I'm going to do it because that's the way my jumpmaster expects it, but is what you say better? -- Mark Smith NYIT Computer Graphics Laboratory Old Westbury, New York ...{philabs,sbcs}!nyit!mark