Thoughts on jumping slider down from a helicopter?

[BASE813 0]

what ever happened to making practice jumps in a pool from a board????? - if you not testing gear config's and you are just trying to get your exit sorted then go back to basics.....

[clint 1]

Nicely said Tree.

Clint MacBeth
Skydive Moab 435 259 JUMP
M.O.A.B. Mother Of All Boogies Sept 19 - 23, 2012

[cornishe 0]

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And I know of someone who got unstable and opened after 8 seconds...but the jumper broke his nose with his knees..

Ya, right. 8 seconds is close to terminal. Did you see it with your own eyes? Probably not.

-am

Abbie Mashaal
Skydive Idaho
Snake River Skydiving
TandemBASE

[sregina 0]

I've seen someone jump a helicopter with a slider down pack job from 350' with out any problems.

[jkbasejumper 0]

Yes i think you should listen to tree on this.Openings are the very least of your problems for a fragile body.more problems can be found on "the list" hard openings and object strikes are just "luck of the draw"(sometimes but not always)

big country
base998

[Skydawg 0]

You shouldn't do a hard chest-high, base type exit from a small k-car (Aloette, baby jet ranger etc.), coz the chopper rolls as you push and whop whop you hit the rotor Seen it happen before.

[tfelber 0]

I did a terminal exit with a sail slider jumping a Flik293 with VTEC yesterday. It opened much faster than anything I've jumped except a badly packed Sabre and wasn't that bad. I'm not worried about getting hurt from the opening I was just interested in the feeling. One less thing to go damn I wished I'd have known that before.

Not to mention I got a heli to jump next weekend and was wanting to put it to use.