FLYJACK 779 #66001 1 hour ago 9 hours ago, Kamkisky said: I’m claiming on the priority list it didn’t rank high enough to bother either way. It was good enough. Just like the money bag was good enough. Just like Reno was good enough. Just like taking off with the aft stairs up was good enough. There’s a pattern here. What wasn’t good enough was waiting around for a flight plan…nah, they need to pick that **** up in the air. He prioritized things. He was wanting to get off the damn ground. I don’t blame him. Money is green. Chute looks like it will open. Done deal. Next up. Exactly, you have no idea.. you actually miss the point... and just make it up. He demanded mains/reserve... but received pilot bailout rigs and unusable front reserves.. I guess the guys tasked with obtaining the chutes didn't know the difference either.. Since he DID jump with a bailout rig.. there are only two options. Either,, He knew it was a pilot bailout rig and jumped anyway... Or,, He didn't realize it was a bailout rig... Pilot bailout rigs from that era,, did not steer, opened hard, landed hard and increased the risk of injury.. So, targeting of any LZ is out the window.. you land where the drift takes you, up to 113 sq miles.. higher risk with no reserve. Bailout rigs are emergency chutes not intended to be used. Is that what Cooper chose? Would any jumper choose that jump in those conditions with a legit pilot bailout rig? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FLYJACK 779 #66002 35 minutes ago It is clear that some of you just don't grasp the issue here... But it brings up another point that never made sense.. Cossey was contacted about chutes and offered his at Issaquah. ALL FOUR. Cossey had nothing to do with securing Hayden's chutes. Emrich was to grab all four from Issaquah when he was informed that they had secured the two backs and to only send the fronts.. turns out the two backs from Hayden were pilot bailout rigs and could not attach fronts. So, Dudeman is wrong, not everyone understands the difference... Cossey was unaware of Hayden until a day or day's later.. Cossey initially believed HIS back chutes from Issaquah were sent to Cooper. Problem,, if Emrich was grabbing ALL FOUR he would not have grabbed backs and fronts that could not be attached... He would have grabbed freefall rigs and front reserves.. not pilot bailout rigs. The reason Cooper got incompatible fronts and backs is because they came from different sources. Now, later Cossey claimed in an interview the B4 Cooper left behind was a freefall rig... and returned to him. That is a tacit admission that he believed HIS sport rig was sent to Cooper. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lxchilton 4 #66003 26 minutes ago 57 minutes ago, FLYJACK said: Exactly, you have no idea.. you actually miss the point... and just make it up. He demanded mains/reserve... but received pilot bailout rigs and unusable front reserves.. I guess the guys tasked with obtaining the chutes didn't know the difference either.. Since he DID jump with a bailout rig.. there are only two options. Either,, He knew it was a pilot bailout rig and jumped anyway... Or,, He didn't realize it was a bailout rig... Pilot bailout rigs from that era,, did not steer, opened hard, landed hard and increased the risk of injury.. So, targeting of any LZ is out the window.. you land where the drift takes you, up to 113 sq miles.. higher risk with no reserve. Bailout rigs are emergency chutes not intended to be used. Is that what Cooper chose? Would any jumper choose that jump in those conditions with a legit pilot bailout rig? I mean we are ALL making it up beyond the salient facts that we know: Cooper received parachutes and jumped from the plane. There are so many more factors in play here than this binary option. Maybe Cooper's level of experience would not have had him preferring the chute setup that he received, but we already know that he has been delayed enough to completely ignore the fact that they gave him the money in the wrong container. In a vacuum you might be able to home in on the nuances of Cooper's decisions, but there is so much noise here that it seems like a fools errand. The guy knew something about parachutes and he didn't bring his own. He's probably military. He's 50ish, he probably jumped in WWII and/or Korea (money is on and for me), he might have jumped in Vietnam as well. Why go further than this when it's all supposition at that point? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
