All good you lived but a malfunction would have killed you or if you think best sitting in wheelchair feeding out of a straw. Skydiving at best is dangerous if you don't follow the criteria.
I noticed after about 60 jumps that I became very instinctual about putting in massive input to keep my heading or prevent a line twist from starting. If you have too much rotation, its hard to stop yourself from spinning after the first twist is complete. I just recently started practicing heading control by doing deep stalls and then recovering a little quicker than I should.
@@DBlock-100 Have you guys discussed/agreed the direction of break-off tracking for each of you beforehand? If so, at least one of you seem to f up, if not - then yes, both
Hi im in the middle of aff, my instructor told me if everyone follows instructions when jumping out(time between jumps and pull on the agreed altitude) things like this could never happen. What went wrong here? Also this man may wave his hands like a maniac before pulling, there is no way the second diver would have seen that.
It has nothing to do with the exit separation. When a group of jumpers jumps together, they need to break off at a pre-determined altitude and track in opposite directions to get maximum separation before deployment. In this case, they essentially tracked (although I didn't see any tracking) on top of each other. Show your instructor and ask him what happened, he can explain better than people on the internet (this is true for anything skydiving and ESPECIALLY safety related).
It's quite awesome. I was on a 2 plane load, so whilst under canopy at 4000 feet, about 6 of them came freefalling past a few hundred safe feet away. You then get a realization of how fast you fall. Cloud rush is also a great way to feel the speed.
@@LaggerSVK Normally in free fall you don't have a reference point to realize the speed your falling except for the wind of course, but when you go through a cloud it's like the ground coming up at you at 150 mph. Then instantly everything goes foggy for a few seconds then it's suddenly clear again, you look behind you as the clouds just peel away rapidly. Very awesome.
Yeah, it's awesome, but also scary. It happend to me last month, although it wasn't this close, but still to close. After that I always make sure to be completly aware of the airplane path and to fly at 90° from it.
Can only guess its 2 seperate solo jumpers without context. If thats the case its probably a mixture of jumper 1 backsliding into jump run while jumper 2 not giving suficient delay between jumps.
Can u tell me plz did ur cutaway then immediate reserve pull (while bad body position/spinning ) cause the reserve line twist ? Can u not wait a few seconds before the reserve deployment to level ur body ? Could it have prevented the second line twist ?
My thoughts on this were after previously I wondered why you need so many jumps under your belt before you can wear a camera or go wing suit jumping etc. Now I see just why the experience part is so important.
found my main in a tree two days later. No joking, the main was 100% fine after two days in a tree. As far the underpants... well... yes I needed some new ones =)
PS....I was almost expecting, at the end of video, for you to start thanking God for being alive, lol. That's what I would have done, but I probably would've been crying, yelling or something!
Incredible video!! I had a similar, primary malfunction, in 1979, when I was 21. I did not cutaway. It was about my 10th jump on this Stratostar, after 300 or so jumps on a round, Piglett II RW canopy. I opened low, 1,800 feet and at first, like an idiot, I thought it was the same as a "barber pole" on a round! At 1,000 feet it started a violent spin and then completely collapsed before I hit the ground. I thought you were going to die in this video. In those days, we did not have much in the way of video camera, etc. I have never seen a video of the type thing that happened to me, although I've tried to picture it in my mind to figure it out. Thanks so much for posting this. I should have cutaway immediately, like you did. I wonder, because the first malfunction was making you spin, and your cutaway was so incredibly fast, is this why the reserve opened like it did.....I mean because you were spinning? Just curious. I got hurt on that jump and only made about another 50 after that, but one was the first WSCR over NY State, lol. Thanks again, and good luck!!!
