NASCAR Driver. Survivor on the ABC show Castaways 2018. Performance Driving instructor. Professional Skydiver. Stunt Driver. Drifting. Sharing about my life which is mostly Motorsports and Skyding related with a few other cool things thrown into the mix! Well, at least I think they’re cool things. HOPE YOU ENJOY!!
Yeah, great question this was very early on in my skydiving career and there was just a lot going on. I had JUST paid for a reserve repack (100$) it was the first day of a long weekend event. My AAD (automatic activation device.) was just about exspired but as long as I didn’t have a reserve ride I would get another 6mo out of it but if I had a reserve ride (like I did) I’d need to by a new one (1000-1500$ new) the malfunction was packed by a packer and I had to down wind land it to make it to a safe spot and landed on my ass a bit hard. So that was part of all the frustration. All though I was alive it was an expensive jump essentially caused by another person who packed for me haha
Hi! Let me answer some of your questions. Are you a jumper? 1st- This was 7yrs ago around 150 jumps (Now instructor and over 3k jumps) 2.- I didn’t pull “low” it was at intended opening although it was close to the hard deck (around 3k ft) 3. I did not open close to “others” just one other that tracked a little closer than you would like next to me. 4. I didn’t f*** around with handles, in-fact I ditched the reserve handle and only quickly secured the cutaway handle as it was dangling around. The reason for the anger was many at the time. I had just had the reserve re-packed for that weekend ($160) My AAD ($1200-1500) was going to be due to replace in 6mo OR if I had a reserve ride.. So, on the first Jump of the weekend the packer packed me a malfunction and that jump cost be $1500 so I was pissed lol. Hope that answers some questions
So I keep asking a question, and no one answers. Maybe it's something you don't talk about? What makes the reserve a " definite" opening chute? Is it because it's smaller, and therefore your body mass, is more to the chutes..wing loading? Meaning each square inch is carrying more load, than a main chute? Because it's smaller, are there less length in the control lines? So it's harder to tangle up.( but does that also mean if they DO get crossed up, you are really fuckered? ) Can you in theory, carry 2 main chutes, and 1 reserve? I know it sounds weird, as I ride " dangerous" motorcycles, and not much redundancy on safety..but something REALLY freaks me out, about skydiving, and having just a single back up. I love watching the videos, but I have an unsettling fear, of a reserve failing. But I'm guess that's my fear, and just as in any other sport "trust your gear", and get over it..
I’m not a skydiver, but I believe the reserve has a lower wing loading and is much more conservatively designed. As well, a lot of the safety margin comes from the fact that the probability of a failure is small, and the probability of two is very very small (e.g. winning the lottery once vs on two successive draws). As well, the reserve needs to be packed by a licensed rigger, whereas you can pack your main if you desire.
So there’s many variables to your question it’s just not a simple answer that’s maybe why people haven’t answered it. The main parachute is made of a material meant to last many many years it’s also meant to pack quickly so that you can realistically jump multiple times per day but has a higher likelihood of having a malfunction but it is still usually the error of who packed it. A reserve parachute Hass to be packed by a specially licensed and trained parachute rigger. It’s also made of a different type of material and as meant to open up more symmetrically and reliably but the material does not last for as many years usually. It is traditional that you want your reserve parachute to be a little bit bigger than your main parachute but that is not always the case. Hope that answers some of your question
If u skydive, and u have a kid under 18..then ur a giant piece of spit.. ur knowingly gambling with ur life for a "rush" and basically spitting in ur kids face. Justify it all u want, but ur kid needs u and ur to busy chasing a high tha u want to give a damn what they need
Everyone thinks they know when really they don’t know anything ;) This was very early on in my skydiving but there was a lot going on here. I had JUST had the reserve repacked before this jump $(100) my AAD was was almost out of service but was going to be good for that last repack for potentially the next 6mo before having to drop another 1+k on a new AAD and repack. Borrowed canopy that I’d have to replace if lost which happens often in this location. And so on... So when the packer packed me a Mal and knowing “fuck that just cost me a few K potentially, I was pissed haha
Ive never been upset anytime i landed safe under reserve... This guy needs to chill - he took care of business... I personaly would have given it a bit of time under that main but hey well done...
@@MattJaskol amazing! thanks for answering! Possible outcome that someone catches the cutaway mid air? Or how you find them, where they landed? Drones?
@@arnassepetys6606 I'm from Germany and I had two cutaways. Both times the main was ok, but they were hanging in trees far away from the ground and so I had to call someone to climb up and bring it down. (Later I learned to climb trees and did the same for my skydiving friends). In my time as a jumper we did some walks through fields and woods for searching canopys and freebags. To catch the main midair is a real bad idea. I know one case where the jumper by the attempt to catch the canopy was entangled in the canopy and got killed thereby.
At 5:19 do you know why is the kart jumping like this as if it is stuck? Is there anything to do to prevent this from happening? Just changed to a category that uses Prime tires and been having quite a lot of this happening to me.
Oh man there’s definitely no single answer for this. There’s 10 different things that could be happening some of which were my fault. It was just these motors have so much power my entry wasn’t perfect it’s a little bit bumpy I could have actually fixed it with just my body positioning believe it or not leaning more into the seat pushing on the steering wheel and just slowing down the throttle but also the Kart was not set up perfectly. The CRG always struggles a little bit on temporary circuits with low grip the CRG is inherently a stiffer go cart with less grip so on the parking lot it’s hard to get a good set up
That's what I was thinking..is every single sky dive awsome? I mean, it's only been done like, what, 30 million times now,its kind of the same as the other ones
That's Elsinore. The ground is actually flat as a table top, but he's downrange a bit near to the lake. It gets mucky and stuff grows in the muck. There are steep hills across the freeway, but the dropzone is wide open and flat.
