I hope you could help me to understand what happened to me yesterday.
A friend of mine (Velo 84, loaded WL 2:3) and I (Velo 96, WL 2:25) flew together at around 600 m above ground, we had a constant headwind at that time. He was to my right and a little bit above me. I went into my rears slightly to reduce the distance between him and my canopy. I am used to landing and flying with the rears and felt really comfortable. The upper flyer had slight contact with my outer RIGHT 2 cells. Suddenly I had a frontstall at my LEFT side and almost half of the canopy went away and began spinning. I was able to get it back after 450 or so degrees, however, I was a little bit shocked.
We discussed this yesterday at our dz, however, we haven't found a reasonable explanation for the incident. Further, you if you loose on side of your canopy, you should bring your weight on the other side and help the canopy to reinlafte, however, there was now way to do so due to the G-forces....
Any idea what has happened?
Thanks for your help!