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Are these lines thinner than the HMA lines on the Nitro / Nitron? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Do I understand the sequence of events? I will try to piece it together from your posts: 1. "My wife had a malfunction due to a contrived malfunction" and "I call a line twist, or slider up, or a released brake line, or a pilot chute under a contrived mal" So she deploys her main, and she has some or all of line twists, fired brake, slider up, and pilot chute under. 2. "her cutaway system failed" and "it was a partial release of the main the right side remainded attached" So she pulls her cutaway handle but only one riser releases. Obvious question is why not? Was her 3-ring correctly assembled? 3. Next, I guess, comes her entanglement with the main: "She could not use her hook knoif scence her fingures were entangled/ traped in her main suspension lines to her right leg. " 4. So now, "she had to deploy her reserve (alt. remaining) in to her main trash" 5. The result was a "spinning entanglment" that she "Survived ... with a broken back." Do I have the sequence of events correct? ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Search the incidents forum for "Holly Kish." You need to keep your slider either above the top of your risers (i.e. rapide links) or collapse it and pull it over your steering toggles and out of the way. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It would have limited liability for skydiving-related injuries and deaths. It was an attempt to treat dz's like ski resorts. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

PM aeromobile. He owns a TC 195 that I believe was a normally aspirated 195 when he bought it. He may have a perspective on both. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Neo is not the one. The little girl is. She is a human born in the matrix, Neo was not. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Dalton is off 75, the Interstate he will take from Chattanooga to ATL. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>According to Hostess, it takes forty-five seconds to explode a Twinkie in a microwave.

>>I prefer ding-dongs. Twinkies are kinda limp and nasty.

I am from Chattanooga, and Monteagle Mountain is notorious for speed traps. It is northwest of Chattanooga as you are coming in from Nashville. When you see the signs for the University of the South, slow down. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>I think reserves and AAD's are designed to be used

I had a good day in freefall on Sunday being the weak link in some very cool formations. It was a rough day under canopy, though, with two experiences I will memorialize with a post here. First, I wound up not getting as much forward drive as I would have liked on final in some pretty stiff winds, but I was set to touch down in a safe area, so I was not too worried. As I got to the ground, the winds had picked up so that I came straight down about 30 feet upwind of a parked RV. My partial flare to slow my descent caused me to start going backwards, and by the time I actually got on the ground I had burned some of this 30 feet. My normal post-landing routine involves pulling my left toggle all the way down and turning to my left while looking for cameras to geek, so on touchdown, I tried to ground my canopy to the left. However, the wind was blowing hard enough that even with my left toggle down, I was having to run. So I decided to cut it away since I was close to that RV. I brought my right hand to my cutaway handle with my hand still in the toggle, which caused my canopy to pull even harder on me. Now I was really running, and I pulled the cutaway handle just in time to smack into the $200 thousand RV I mentioned earlier. It was an odd feeling to watch my risers disappear over the roof. Some lines snagged on the air conditioner on the roof, and another skydiver was kind enough to climb up on top and help me get my main back. Anyway, everyone was very nice about it, and I think the only harm done was to my ego. Two jumps later, I opened with line twists that had my head pushed down. Canopy was fully inflated and flying straight, so I reached up and grabbed the risers (which I could not see) and started the kicking dance. When I pulled out on the risers, I accidentally unstowed one brake. This did not help matters at all. Now I'm turning, losing altitude, and still can't see my toggles. My kicking reached a new level of enthusiasm. This story has a happy ending, too, as I was able to get enough of the twists out to grab both toggles and pop the other brake before things got out of control. Landable canopy by 2,000 feet. Oh, and Brown, if you're reading this, sorry I pulled you aside and talked to you about landing so close to that VERY SAME RV on Saturday. You were right - it could have happended to anybody. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

If you can't afford to cut away your malfunctioning main over an area where you KNOW you will lose it, you can't afford to skydive. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>I dont' like the idea of a pro-rate in the least. If I have a reserve ride the first day after a repack I pay full pop, but if I have one on the last day of the cycle I pay 55 cents?

>>Should you pay for any part of the reserve repack? >If so, what portion?

Know the SIM. Don't just be familiar with it. KNOW it. Know cloud clerance requirements. Know how to give a "USPA" gear check. Know the cat G dive flows. Know the FJC material and how to organize and present it. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>If you have deployed your pilot chute, then whatever you end up with (PC in tow) must be treated as a partial malfunction and you need to cutaway before pulling your reserve.

>> I've never heard of or seen one of these canopy whistles. Are they supposed to warn you of an impending canopy collision? Can other people under canopy really hear these? Or is it just a "hey look at how cool I am swooping and making pretty noises" sort of thing? P.S. You forgot to add a "no" on the poll.

>> I'm no longer sure it would be worth the time, effort and money that I'd have to put into that equipment.

>>But the DZ should have some kind of policy!

The only shortcoming I see with your narrative is the problem of winds at opening altitude opposite the direction of jumprun, which would tend to decrease separation. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>> If I have a reserve ride on my own rig one day before the repack is due, should the rigger charge me less for the repack? If I use a reserve - any reserve, on any rig, for any reason - I should pay for the entire cost of repacking it regardless of when it was last packed. >If I use a reserve - any reserve, on any rig, for any reason - I should pay for the entire cost of repacking it regardless of when it was last packed.

>>1. Yes. Regardless of who packed the main. You'd pay for the repack on your own gear wouldn't you?

The other thread about this has gotten a little polluted, so I wanted to move this discussion a little. Remember that we are not talking about BORROWED gear here, but RENTAL gear, where the jumper paid to jump it. There is no rental agreement, you just walked up and paid $25 to jump the rig one time. My questions are as follows: 1. If you use the reserve, should you have to pay to repack it? 2. If the main breaks a line on opening, should you have to pay to reattach or replace the line? 3. If the main blows up on opening, should you have to pay to replace it? 4. If you lose any handles, should you have to pay to replace them? 5. If you lose the cutaway main, should you have to replace it? Please answer keeping in mind this is RENTAL gear, not an upjumper's gear you borrowed. My answer to 1 and 2 is no, those are normal wear and tear and part of what you pay for when you rent gear. I am undecided on 3. 4 and 5 are definitely yes. I imagine the gear dealers are going to have a very different opinion. My answer to the others is yes - you lost it. Replace it. I do not think, however, that if you lose a 1990 PD210 with 2000 jumps on it you should be expected to cough up the price of a brand new canopy. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I have begged my way onto a number of dives that were way over my head, and every time I do it, it freaks me out. Early in my skydiving career, it was going on bigger belly dives than I was ready for with a slot in the base. More recently, it has been going on on bigger freefly dives than I am ready for with people who fall faster than I can. I have learned to be much more selective about what I attempt with bigger groups. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com