[tricon7]

I personally don't want to engage in an activity where if I screw up, I die. If I mess up my first serve in tennis, I get a second serve. If I mess up with my chute in skydiving, I meet my Maker. Hard pass.

[Bletch]

Originally Posted by spycosis ↗

Anyone who thinks he deserved to die for the crime of being born in a particular country is a fucking idiot.

It is the same barbaric logic used by Islamist terrorists when they blow up kids at pop concerts. Think about that for a moment.

Wrong, every Russian is equal to an Islamic terrorist. Their barbaric warfare in Ukraine speaks for itself. Killing of children, women and old people. Rape and plunder is a part of their culture. So fk your pacifist message

[kbt3168]

First time I ever jumped, a jumper in the front of our plane had a bad canopy / resultant cutaway. His reserve chute worked and he was ok, but it made for an even more nervous first jump…

[spycosis]

Originally Posted by Bletch ↗

Wrong, every Russian is equal to an Islamic terrorist. Their barbaric warfare in Ukraine speaks for itself. Killing of children, women and old people. Rape and plunder is a part of their culture. So fk your pacifist message

I don't want to argue with you because you obviously have severe learning difficulties, and I think it's great that you people keep smiling whatever hardship comes your way

But seriously, stick to wiping the McDonald's tables clean and leave the politics to people who actually know their arse from their elbow. You are embarrassing yourself.

[b0g]

I did not see the first canopy getting dropped.
Don't you have to drop the 1st chute so the second canopy can deploy in full bloom?

[Tyrantus]

So the guy who spends his time jumping out of planes and rock climbing and definitely isn't out there killing Ukrainian women, children, and old people, still deserved to die simply because, Russia? Hokay buddy..

every Russian is equal to an Islamic terrorist

Clown

[nudibranches646]

Given the manoeuvre they were all doing I’d suggest not newbies. Paradoxically experienced jumpers (or anyone) are often more dangerous as they become complacent. He’s fixated on untangling the main chute for far too long when a less experienced jumper would likely have deployed the reserve chute at the first sign of trouble. An old school friend who was a very experienced jumper survived a similar event 40 years ago. She struggled with the main for ages because she was so confident she could clear it. In her case she hit the reserve just in time but still slammed pretty hard. She was in hospital for a very long time and abandoned parachuting… and took up cave diving.

[Stevieaitch]

lol retarded darwin. just like helicopters. fkin retards

[pinballwiz]

What's with all the anti-russian cucks on here?

[William May]

Like YAH mentions, there are things you can do. When I was in skydiving training, they actually showed videos they made, of guys who deliberately jumped with defective chutes, so they could demonstrate recovery possibilities. The final advice was if you passed 1000 feet above ground level with a continuing problem, you jettison your primary chute, and pull your reserve.

Our student chutes were packed by professional, licensed chute riggers, in their chute loft.

What stunned me was the number of guys with hundreds or thousands of jumps, who would just gather up their chutes, jam them back in the backpack like laundry, and run out to the next airplane that was going up. They didn't want to miss a jump. A LOT of them were ex-military, Ex Seal Team members, or old Airborne jumpers. When I asked one of them "Gee, aren't you going to get your chute repacked before you go up?", the guy looked at me like I was the village idiot, and said: "Well, yeah! I just repacked it!" as he jammed the last lump of cloth into the backpack, and then ran out to catch the next flight up. Some of those guys were doing 10 jumps a day. Others were going up to 10-15 thousand feet to do jumps where they did formation work on the way down. They all had reserve chutes, so I guess the risk was minimal. But it scared the crap out of me!