quotes from the dropzone...

[jumper03 0]

Two I heard recently that made think "holy shit...."

1) "I unhooked my RSL because I read on the internet that an RSL is bad"

2) "I will never die skydiving"



I calmly explained that if that was the only reason the RSL was unhooked, the jumper needed to re-evaluate the reasoning.

As for number 2 - If that jumper gets on a load I'm on, they can keep my ticket, I'm getting off of it.

Scars remind us that the past is real

[BillyVance 35]

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Two I heard recently that made think "holy shit...."

1) "I unhooked my RSL because I read on the internet that an RSL is bad"

2) "I will never die skydiving"



I calmly explained that if that was the only reason the RSL was unhooked, the jumper needed to re-evaluate the reasoning.

As for number 2 - If that jumper gets on a load I'm on, they can keep my ticket, I'm getting off of it.

There are always going to be some idiots out there. I wouldn't want to jump with someone who said the same thing as #2 either.

As for RSLs, the only times you really don't want them hooked up is when doing CRW or jumping anywhere that requires water flotation gear. If you're jumping on an exceptionally windy day, disconnect the RSL after deploying your main, so when you land, you can just cut the main away before the wind has a chance to drag your sorry ass across the field, which happened to me once...

Then again, I haven't jumped with an RSL for a few years... no real reason why. Maybe because I do a lot of CRW with my primary rig that it's a pain in the ass to connect and re-connect the RSL whenever I do RW or CRW...

But hey, I know I can die anytime, but is it going to stop me from doing what I love to do? No...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Frenchy68 0]

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If you're jumping on an exceptionally windy day, disconnect the RSL after deploying your main

I personally wait until touching down. In case I may need one of these sub-1000ft chop... But that's only my opinion.

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[Kris 0]

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As for RSLs, the only times you really don't want them hooked up is when doing CRW or jumping anywhere that requires water flotation gear.

Meh...I'd use one on a jump near water. But don't forget camera jumps...definitely not the place for an RSL.

Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and
Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

[jumper03 0]

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Meh...I'd use one on a jump near water. But don't forget camera jumps...definitely not the place for an RSL.

That's a hell of a lot better than saying "I read it on the internet...."

Scars remind us that the past is real

[skybytch 273]

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Maybe because I do a lot of CRW with my primary rig that it's a pain in the ass to connect and re-connect the RSL whenever I do RW or CRW...

??? It takes less time to hook up/disconnect an RSL than it does to turn on a Cypres.

[davelepka 4]

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If you're jumping on an exceptionally windy day, disconnect the RSL after deploying your main

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I personally wait until touching down. In case I may need one of these sub-1000ft chop... But that's only my opinion.

If the winds are such that you cannot control your canopy upon landing, disconnecting your RSL is not the answer. Not jumping is the answer.

[Frenchy68 0]

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If the winds are such that you cannot control your canopy upon landing, disconnecting your RSL is not the answer. Not jumping is the answer.

I agree.

"For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

[kelpdiver 2]

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If the winds are such that you cannot control your canopy upon landing, disconnecting your RSL is not the answer. Not jumping is the answer.

But a choice that can't be made after you exit the plane. Most problematic at a DZ where the LZ is elsewhere. At Hollister you can get the conditions from the guys two loads behind you.

[Rdy2skydive 0]

Last summer a 50 jump wonder tried to fly his canopy uncomfortably close to me to the point where he was chasing me. I managed to get away from him and asked him about it when we were on the ground. He told me he was trying to bump end cells with my canopy. I told him that he didn't know what he was doing and to stay the hell away from me under canopy. His response.....

"What are you worried about? It's the experienced jumpers that are dying under canopy. People with our jump numbers don't have anything to worry about."

Holy shit! I told the S&TA about it and just stay off every load he is on. He still thinks I overreacted.

[BIGUN 1,483]

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In case I may need one of these sub-1000ft chop...

Huh?

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.

[NWPoul 1]

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Last summer a 50 jump wonder tried to fly his canopy uncomfortably close to me to the point where he was chasing me. I managed to get away from him and asked him about it when we were on the ground. He told me he was trying to bump end cells with my canopy. I told him that he didn't know what he was doing and to stay the hell away from me under canopy

Now I know why many of experienced guy's
jump UHP canopy - it just more safe to fly a velosity (if you can drive it) so such idiots just can't pursue you

Why drink and drive, if you can smoke and fly?

[FrogNog 1]

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If the winds are such that you cannot control your canopy upon landing, disconnecting your RSL is not the answer. Not jumping is the answer.

I agree.

Disconnecting my RSL helped me when I encountered a gust front. The weather was not supposed to come near us - and the rain and clouds didn't. But the ground winds went from "fine" to higher than I'd ever jumped (or ever want to jump) while we were in the plane. (And to top it off, we were landing somewhere other than where we took off.) I popped my swiss connector at 100 feet and chopped as soon as I touched down. I was already halfway to my back. My canopy stopped after it finally collapsed, about 30 yards. (Good thing it wasn't airlocked. ) I didn't jump again that day, not even after the winds returned to "normal". I was too skeerd.

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[Praetorian 1]

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50 jump wonder tried to fly his canopy uncomfortably close to me to the point where he was chasing me. I managed to get away from him and asked him about it when we were on the ground. He told me he was trying to bump end cells with my canopy. I told him that he didn't know what he was doing and to stay the hell away from me under canopy. His response.....

"What are you worried about? It's the experienced jumpers that are dying under canopy. People with our jump numbers don't have anything to worry about."

You handled it better than I would have! I'd have tried to bump end Knuckles with that point between his eyes! Its not so much the MASSIVE STUPID ... its trying to involve me in his MASSIVE STUPID without talking to me about it first. Had he talked to me about it first I've have told him hell no when I managed to stoplaughing.

Good Judgment comes from experience...a lot of experience comes from bad
judgment.