The second, and last static line Ill ever do? I was told to do a poised exit, and under no circumstances, to do a hanging exit. Why I dont know. Holding on to the wing strut, I had my foot too far forward on the wheel and tried to take a small hop back to get in a better position for exiting. Then my feet blew out from under me, and I was forced to try to swing my feet back on the wheel...no hanging exits allowed. This was a nightmare, and a dangerous situation if the chute would have blown.
I finally accomplished that by some miracle, exited, and in all the exitement, forgot to throw my waist forward, causing me to forward flip twice while on the static line. Noticing the ground from less than 3000 ft, I immediately thought the chute was going to get tangled, panicked and started looking for the cutaway device, just in case. Then the chute blew open instintaneously, no line twists, slider in place, perfect deployment.
I havent been at it long enough to know the reliability of these ram air chutes, so I naturally thought I was in a pretty bad situation. Im done with these static lines, that isnt skydiving anyway.
