Ever have a really bad day?

[jose 0]

Chop&Premature

[GogglesnTeeth 6]

perfect song for that video.....

"having a bad day" - Blue Flannel

turn your personal beer light on after those!!!

Goggles and Teeth

"You fall like a greased safe!!!"

[weegegirl 2]

may i suggest you take a wee break and stay on the ground?!?!

[bodypilot90 0]

hey at least you walked away from both, the 2ed one could have been deadly

[bozo 0]

The day I bounced sucked pretty bad.

Today seems to be going along pretty well. :o)


bozo

bozo
Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars.

[hookitt 1]

The cutaway looked fun.. the premature deployment looked startling.

I'm glad to see it was a clean deployment. It looked like it was comfortable enough.

Do you have a BOC with a hackey handle?

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[bob.dino 1]

Glad to hear you weren't hurt. You're a lucky boy! Have a beer - if I was in your position I'd definitely need one.


What condition was the BOC in? Hackey or freefly handle?

[SeaKev 0]

Damn, Brad! I thought watching some of your landings was painful.....

[diablopilot 2]

No. Never. They're all good.

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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.

[jose 0]

Hookit:

Yeah, the feeling of having that reserve over my head was awesome. I kept my handles and dealt with it in quick fashion. In fact as soon as I looked up, I knew it would put me on my back. It started with a big hesitation after the bag came off my back, so I gave a good tug on the risers. That brought the main out of the bag, but the damage was already done by then, it had spun up to shit before inflation. I was on my back quickly and as soon as humanly possible I was on my handles. I peeled and got about 3 inches of cable from the cutaway with one hand. I gave one more good tug, but no good. It took 2 hands to remove that fucker, and that was with metal riser housings. You can see my hand punch out the reserve as I am rotating to my belly and whammo, beautiful white Aerodyne Smart 120. It was a great opening and totally on heading, even though I was still spinning slightly. Funny thing is that I didn't say a thing under reserve, and was steering it with risers to find the freebag. Some habits are ingrained I guess. Only on the ground did I hoot and holler like a freak. It was an incredible moment, but not one I want to experience again any time soon.

The premature was on a borrowed rig with my main in it. It had the same size main in it before the switch. My Wings has a cordura BOC, and this one had the Spandex that was in good condition. Heres how I saw it play out.

Exit went wonky on a 5 way flower and it looks like the back of my rig and other jumpers rig contacted. After I rotated back around I could see from outside vid that my freefly handle was loose and flapping. This is that lame ass handle that wings had sewn on the same way you do a hackey. Its not a problem if you sew it directly to the pilot chute, but for some reason, they attached it with the same tape you use for hackeys. So after the flower spun out, I was coming back in for a rebuild and that is when you can see it really flapping. Boom, I got REMOVED! So I am positive that the attatchment design was responsible for pulling the pilot out of the BOC. It has that much resistance in the wind. I am calling Wings tomorrow about this. I will not jump it until its replaced with a hackey, or attached right.

[skysprite 0]

Damn.

Regarding the Wings handle... is this how they usually do it? Cause I'm looking at getting a Wings container, and if I need to ask specifically for a different handle or something, that'd be nice to know.

~skysprite