What happened?

[c10edges 0]

Could someone explain what happened and what is so bad about this??


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGwZNfbNuQ

[JohnDeere 0]

Where to start...... the cause could be many things from, just reconnected canopy (incorrectly), cable being to short, or being rough with rig while packing. The cutaway cable does not come out by itself! What could go wrong??? The worst is loss of life due to that riser disconnecting at say 50 Ft. From there your imagination can figure it out.

Nothing opens like a Deere!

You ignorant fool! Checks are for workers!

[klingeme 1]

If it happens on the RSL side of your container (and completely slips) and you don't have a Collin's Lanyard, Your reserve will deploy into your (still attached to the other riser) trailing main.

[billvon 3,089]

True story:

I was jumping with a recurrency student at Rantoul one year. I gave him a gear check; everything looked fine, including the release cables. He was using his own (old but not decrepit) gear.

Dive went OK. He opened normally and landed. When he landed one riser just plain fell off, and when I looked at the gear I realized that the cutaway cable was long enough with the rig hanging on him, but not long enough when everything was under tension. I told him how dangerous that was and told him he could not jump again until he had a rigger fix it.

I saw him jumping a little later with the same rig. "Did you get that cable fixed?"

"No, I had my buddy who's a rigger look at it and he said it was fine."

So I tracked down the rigger and talked to him, but it got a bit confrontational, so I gave up. I didn't hear about any incidents involving him; hope he didn't have any problems with it.

[inextremis 0]

I think (based on the caption that says hop n pop with your new canopy) that you just didn't put the cable into the channel when you attached the canopy. If the cable is too short (ie, keeps coming out), there are lots of bad scenarios--I once reached across a three way early in the skydive, barely off the hill, and held a disconnected cable housing in front of the jumper's face so that he knew his main was disconnected, then watched him fall to 4K when he opened his reserve. I'm embarrased to say that we gutlessly stopped turning points, wasting 6K of otherwise good training time, but then again he was fairly contemplative during the remaining freefall, keeping a close eye on the silver handle he eventually pulled. In that case it was because his cable was dislodged on exit--somewhat easier to have happen if the cable is too short or the end of the cable isn't stowed.