katzurki 0 #1 May 21, 2005 The main canopy is a 9-cell F-111. The reserve is a Dactyl-like wing. To my knowledge, the jumper was unhurt; the two-out occured due to an improperly rigged RSL, or something to that effect. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #2 May 21, 2005 QuoteThe reserve is a Dactyl-like wing. I'm not a rigger. A manufaturer. Or a gear freak. But that, right there, is damm scary.Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverek 63 #3 May 21, 2005 The triangular reserve is called "Delta" (PZ-81). I have one reserve ride on it... There is no freebag, reserve is "freepacked". Very light toogle pressure, not too hard landing for non ram-air canopy. The reserve PC was connected to the the "cross-connector only" (no fabric) slider to slow the deployment process. More on trangular parachutes here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=661037#661037 and here http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1521884#1521884 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #4 May 21, 2005 I'm still scared by it... Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rwieder 0 #5 May 21, 2005 QuoteI'm still scared by it... your not by yourself on that one! that's the ugliest thing i've ever seen.-Richard- "You're Holding The Rope And I'm Taking The Fall" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkiD_PL8 0 #6 May 21, 2005 Was the main chopped? Greenie in training. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
katzurki 0 #7 May 21, 2005 QuoteWas the main chopped? No, possibly out of fear that the two might entangle. Canopies configuration put the jumper in a slow spin, the landing was somewhat hard, but manageable. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkiD_PL8 0 #8 May 21, 2005 I think I would have elected to chop it just looking at the pictures. Maybe it was more dynamic than it appears in the stills however. Greenie in training. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nvanduyn 0 #9 May 22, 2005 damn, I guess you learn something every day. I had know idea there was a third type of parachute. So in those pics is the reserve fully inflated? It would scare the s&*t out of me if I saw that above my head. ------ -Nick Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WeakMindedFool 0 #10 May 22, 2005 Huh...regardless of the shape of the reserve, looks like a downplane to me. chop,chop,chop!Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. -Eric Hoffer - Check out these Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
katzurki 0 #11 May 22, 2005 Yeah, it is fully inflated. In its day it was supposedly a state of the art reserve. Some argue this is the quickest-opening and most reliable, if not the softest-landing, reserve. No freebag means less chance of entanglement, they say. Um, they even toss in a figure and tell me that if you have a ball-of-shit for a main and launch the reserve with no cutaway, 98% that it will inflate. After inflation it also presumably automatically rotates upwind. Lots of jumpers in Russia still use it. I wouldn't. :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murps2000 86 #12 May 22, 2005 After inflation it also presumably automatically rotates upwind. *** I'd have to see it to believe it. Even then, I'd have to see it more than once. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
