Low military cutaway video?

[councilman24 37]

Two or three years ago there was a link posted to a video of a military jumper cutting away low. As I recall he rode a round partial malfunction for a long time. Then when too low to get away with it cut away. His round reserve opened feet above the ground. Not even sure it was completely slowed down but he walked away.

Have looked but couldn't find it. Any help?

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[pchapman 279]

I had a video like that downloaded as:

AIRBORNE_IN_MID_AIR_COLLISION_CUT_AWAY_IN_LESS_THAN_500_ft_ALTITUDE

[JohnnyMarko 1]

pchapman

I had a video like that downloaded as:

AIRBORNE_IN_MID_AIR_COLLISION_CUT_AWAY_IN_LESS_THAN_500_ft_ALTITUDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS27-xIHO04?

[councilman24 37]

That's the one thanks. Figure it, along with real bailouts, will sho pilots how fast a parachute can open. Nothing.else I've seen.is videoed from quite this close.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[RiggerLee 63]

What was happening there? Did a riser come lose? Was the other canopy looped through that riser group? Is that why it stayed stretched out and inflated? Why did he chop? When did they start teaching them to chop?

And I don't know how they pick the videos that play automatically after that one. But it was an airborn guy with a gopro on his head, didn't realize they allowed that. Perfect jump looks like it's going to be a prefect landing next to a road. Might be a bit of a ditch. But he breaks the shit out of his leg and squeals like a pig. Perfect follow up to segway into a lecture on feet and knees together.

Lee

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[councilman24 37]

I think he tried to chop when the two were together. Has capewells. Probably got.one and fought to get the other one while canopy held inflated by cross connector. Or one cape well got released by accident. Before the.cutaway is.completed you can see his reserve PC out. Good video to prove.that when the parachute.is open your done slowing down.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[sundevil777 102]

Was one side chopped, held together by a cross connector? It looked like there was something slightly wrong with the canopy, but not enough to warrant chopping from low altitude.

When I was a noob, an experienced guy pointed out to me how the sliding mechanism on my capewells were a loose fit or something like that. The looseness results in a much higher force required to operate the mechanism. It could be very easy for something like that to contribute to an incident like this, regardless if it was relevant to this particular case. The guy adjusted the capewells I believe by tightening up the rivet style pivot (That is my memory, perhaps all wrong). We are fortunate that now we have greater resources to learn about such failure modes with the help of forums such as this.

It seems that it would have been better to just put out the reserve without chopping, whether the reserve has a pilot chute or not.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[councilman24 37]

He may have been trying to cut away for awhile. It's much harder to cut away the second capewell if you don't get them both at.the same time. During my first jump training in 1978 we had to practice cutting away hanging from one shot and a half capewell. It took both hands and a lot of force.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE