ccowden 0 #1 May 9, 2004 Just thought I would post this if anyone wants to see it. It ain't Hollywood footage, but it's kind neat! I was doing a tandem video when I caught a malfunction and cutaway. Fritz (my teammate) is the tandem instructor. You can see the line over / jumbled mess they get when I watch them deploy. I then deploy mine and look past the back edge of my canopy to see them just after he cuts away and is in freefall. You can see the reserve pilotchute come off and the reserve start to open before I can't keep the video on them. I get one last shot of them under their pretty pink reserve before it ends. Likw I said- it ain't Hollywood. But I figured it was worth posting. http://www.badfishfreefly.com/gallery/tandem%20mal.htm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dougiefresh 0 #2 May 10, 2004 That is an awesome vid. What did the tandem student thinK? Probably something along the lines of "Oh, sh**!"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ccowden 0 #3 May 10, 2004 The student actually reacted the same way every other student does. Except she said to Fritz- "You had to use the second chute, didn't you?" Which is pretty unusual. The tandem cutaways I have seen, the student usually has no clue that anything happened. She knew, but it didn't seem to change her reaction to the jump at all. It was just the same big smiles and "Holy cow, that was awesome!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beerlight 0 #4 May 11, 2004 Just watching "your" opening was exciting....! Buck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ccowden 0 #5 May 11, 2004 That's a pretty typical opening for a Velocity. Maybe a little more "dancing" and a little quicker than normal, but not unusual. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
speedy 0 #6 May 11, 2004 QuoteThat's a pretty typical opening for a Velocity. As soon as I saw your opening I thought thats a velocity Last weekend, just before it ended it's little dance, my velocity made one last attempt to put me into line twists The canopy did a 120 degree twist and then decided no... I'll go back to on heading. I was thankfull for that, last time I was in line twists I had to chop Dave Fallschirmsport Marl Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
