Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wmbabineau From: wmbabineau@watmath.UUCP (W. Michael Babineau) Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive Subject: Re: Cutaway, Rocket reserves etc Message-ID: <17162@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:00:55 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.17162 Posted: Fri Nov 8 09:00:55 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:07:27 EST References: <476@spice.cs.cmu.edu> <365@link.UUCP> <1321@poseidon.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 33 > .................................... 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......... -- W. Michael Babineau Multiprocessor Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {ihnp4,allegra,decvax,utzoo,utcsri}!watmsg!wmbabineau !watmath!wmbabineau