What would you do if you lost your goggles on exit?

[ps5601 0]

I'd just stop, get back in the plane, get the spare goggles by the pilot then get out again. Isn't that what you'd do? Either that or just dive the dive as normal.

[ghostlybadge 0]

happened to me on my first console.

eyes wide open they would stream to much to see anything so just squinted and could see alti fine.

was a nice jump in the end

[JohnMitchell 16]

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250 MPH wind really whips the eyelids arond and hurts the ole eyeballs .

I couldn't hit 250 with an afterburner.

[Abedy 0]

We usually have a spare pair of goggles in the plane (in a pouch on the back of the pilot's seat).
I did a few ones w/o goggles, not really a big deal as long as you are not on a video job
If you wear glasses and especially if the glasses are not 70s style (granny glasses, the big ones ) the wind bothers even less. It's not really nice, but I've experienced stranger.

The sky is not the limit. The ground is.

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[Zlew 0]

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Carry spare lenses in your gear bag or car.

I've never lost my goggles outright before, but had a few times where I did get enough air under a pair of goggles that was trying to fly off that I did lose a single contact. Lucky for me, it was just one each time.

The idea of landing my canopy without either contact is not a good situation (land in the middle of the largest open area at half brakes and PLF most likely). The crappy depth perception of just one good eye isn't ideal, but much better than landing "blind".

+1 on the carry an extra set of contacts in your gear bag.

[airtwardo 7]

FWIW

I lost my goggles on a jump about six months after RK surgery, the pain was rather intense and squinting didn't help...I pulled high out of fear I was doing damage to my eyes.

I've lost eye-wear in free-fall since and haven't had that much of a problem, but boy howdy THAT one really HURT!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[firstime 0]

did a jump with Shalon almond in illinois, we get out and he was chasing me (not part of the jump) and when he got close to me he was laughing, he then reached to the top of me helmut and snapped my goggles on my face. I was wondering why my eyes were stinging. Funny to talk about but serious to think that it's not life threatening but it was something that I forgot and that is unacceptable. Great lesson for me

[BlindBrick 0]

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Not fun, not the end of the world.

It can be hairy at times. A few years back, I was recovering from corneal transplants and was doing my first or second jump back after the second transplant when I lost my goggles and glasses coming off the hill on a 4 way out of a 182. I was only eight weeks or so post-op and had the very real issues of busting stiches or rejection.

Kept my eyes half open long enough to pick a heading away from my group and then tracked for about 20 seconds with eyes closed before a very quick visual scan then deployment. Very, very scary. No AAD or audible; just an awful, long count in darkness with the knowledge that the ground was waiting below.

-Blind

"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

[Decodiver 0]

if you backfly no big deal....also helpful in rain etc....

or place your face parallel to the ground not at an angle, at an angle you get more wind in your face or at least it feels that way, looking straight down it's doable.

Cheers,

Coops.

[Galenis 0]

The first time I did a freefly jump my coach and I did a train exit. Once we were set I gave the count and exited but he got hung up on the plane by his camera helmet causing me to tumbly wildly out of the door. Once I got stable I looked around for my coach(I didn't realize he had hung up on the plane and hadn't exited with me) but I couldn't see him. Then I looked over at my altimeter just in time to see it fly off my wrist. Shit, but I had an audible and was only 10 seconds out of the plane so I knew I still had a good amount of altitude. I straightened my head around to get a heading and my goggles fly up over my helmet. I wear contacts so I could just barely open my eyes. At that point I decided that enough had gone wrong for that particular jump so I waved off and terminated the freefall portion of my skydive.

It's time for my nightly ritual: Pleasure myself, weep, and repeat.

[DSE 5]

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Not fun, not the end of the world.

It can be hairy at times. A few years back, I was recovering from corneal transplants and was doing my first or second jump back after the second transplant when I lost my goggles and glasses coming off the hill on a 4 way out of a 182. I was only eight weeks or so post-op and had the very real issues of busting stiches or rejection.

Kept my eyes half open long enough to pick a heading away from my group and then tracked for about 20 seconds with eyes closed before a very quick visual scan then deployment. Very, very scary. No AAD or audible; just an awful, long count in darkness with the knowledge that the ground was waiting below.

-Blind

OK, that makes sense. Skydiving shortly after the bolts were put in my pelvis, or skydiving 8 weeks post ACL replacement probably would be problematic too. Wait...I DID do that.