3 seconds from dead 

And when that is ignored, deploying yourself before an AAD fire is the best decision.

@@sonar5676 absolutely. as instructors we are taught to pull the student for them if they go below a predetermined "hard deck" altitude, but also that we are to abandon trying to help them below another predetermined "hard deck" altitude. both people lost altitude awareness here.

@@error.418 AFFIE, SLIE, IADIE, TandemIE

@@sonar5676 Hah, all us instructors showed up

So true, in 5 years skydiving and around 120 jumps I had zero malfunctions and no injuries, but was run off the road twice by careless highway drivers!

Had to give up jumping and sell my gear shortly after 9 11. I still miss jumping, but the commodity. D7466

Everything is safer than jumping out of a plane... :D

@codingvio7383 Yea, right. Try playing with black mamba or climbing on an 2000 pound bull and trying to stay on for eight seconds.

Its not safer. Especially for those that don't have a lot of experience (AFF, A lic) and those that jump frequently (usually C and D lic).

What if the mountain is mount Everest?

@@TheFireGoose त्यसपछि तपाईं भाग्य बाहिर हुनुहुन्छ

@@TheFireGoose then it would be a very cold parachute ride until you die from lack of oxygen.

HAHAHAHA i know right he didn't pull his parachute either! crazy ass dude

+AdventuresOnEarth Guys.. Read description of the video..

Ok I liked

You fucked up man

thanks everyone for letting me know, but i know now so stop liking this, and talk about the video, please go away

Time Travling Gamer I will try to make it a point to send you a comment at least once a week on here

Time Travling Gamer Why didnt you time travel to go back before you left youtube on at a friends place?

+Growler6t6 or you hit the ground and your parachute opens

+Growler6t6 Oh, don't worry, you won't even feel the ground.

+LuRcH ha

lol

And that is why I hate people who say, “it is never too late to _____”. They are always the ones who believe in God or Gods and the afterlife.

That was an expensive AFF jump

what I always wonder, I am not a skydiver, never done it before but I dream of trying it once, over the next 2 years. When there are so many divers in the air how do they manage to pull the chute without somebody else hitting them, you know what I mean? Is there some sort of a sign one shows before pulling the chute or something? Sorry for the stupid question but I have no experience about it. Thanks

Andreas Hoppe it s not a stupid question at all; on fun jumps (ie without an instructor) a "break off" altitude is agreed before the jump; at set altitude, skydivers track away (glide away) from each other for 1000 ft - that gives them enough separation distance to be well clear of each others on opening the parachute - on instructor jumps, such as this one, the student pulls higher than the instructor, who then tracks away or not (depends on the situation) and pulls his parachute either lower than the student or far away - in this specific case they went too low and the AAD (automatic system deploying the reserve (safety) parachute) fired automatically, hence why they had 2 parachutes on opening) - this is not a situation you want to get into as the parachutes may get entangled and then it's a short and quick drop to the ground - basically, the student lost altitude awareness and didn't respond to the instructor's hand signals to pull - hence why they ended so low - they both walked away I assume but student will probably get a bit of a bollocking and his altimeter serviced; he made 2 big mistakes here: jumping with kit that is not in good working order and not paying enough attention to the instructor - as a side note to the people mentioning ground rush above: when you're inexperienced (such as this guy with 30 jumps), it can be very hard to judge altitude from ground rush in a skydive

thanks for this very long and informative answer. And what I also wonder is, when you pull the parachute what does it feel like as you're slowing down?

Andreas Hoppe Great question - In groups, you are taught to fly 180 degrees away from the center of the formation, starting 1,500 feet above the planned parachute deployment altitude. So this gives everyone space when they are in canopy, to avoid collisions.

Thank you all for your kindness and informative answers.

Not much of an expert

My sister also did a para jump in Australia with her then partner, I was furious when I found out! Less than a month later, the same plane and pilot took up more jumpers in the same place- plane crashed killing everyone on board. I understand thrill seeking but I’d never do a jump.

@@leeriches8841 You can't be afraid of everything dangerous. As long as you have a decent pilot, plane, and equipment you're fine. And as long as you're not dumb enough to imitate Navy Seals and get all tangled up.

+froginthegreen ahhhh no. There are 5 companies that manufacture them: Advance Aerospace Designs (Vigil) Airtec (Cypress) Aviacon (Argus) Mars and FXE (I don't remember their models). They ALL call them AAD. Both the USPS and BPA call them AAD in their civil and military references. And myself, after almost 20 years of sport skydiving have never heard anyone call them AOD. But please, if you have a reference of anyone anywhere call them AOD, please enlighten me. I love to learn new things.

+froginthegreen Correction: FXC

+froginthegreen One last thing: The best I could add was writen in the original comment, the AAD reference was jut a correction and I thought it would be funny to add Einstein because you got so mad about it. And it was. ;)

Staying with him did not help any. The instructor should have dumped at 3000...or 2500 minimum.

You don't owe him for #2. That was his own stupid fault.

+Bob Nemo I also recommend you learn to read, before commenting on 'mistakes' why don't you read his description, he couldn't see the signals. Another inbred thinking he knows it all , no surprise RU-vid is full of mongs like you

+Bob Nemo his altimeter broke

+The RU-vidbros I KNOW it broke ; that's the whole point of my first comment, which you should re-read. "not noticing an altimeter hasn't moved from 10500 during the past 30 seconds, even though the video clearly shows you looking at it at least 3 times ". All skydivers are taught that their altimeter is a machine and machines can break - so it is a BACK-UP to having altitude awareness. For an experienced jumper to look at their alti several times over a period of 30 seconds, but not recognise that something is wrong when it doesn't change, demonstrates that this person has absolutely no altitude awareness. He knows (or should know) that he's covering 1000 feet every 5 seconds - yet doesn't react when the alti hasn't moved in half a minute ...?? Hence my comment "serious error" and my suggestion to try bowling. I did not make those comments lightly. Like many others who have commented here, politely or less so, I feel that this person should not be jumping at all, for his own safety and more importantly the safety of others around him.

if pull it at 1000 feet

lmao yes that's so true

There’s even simpler one: as an instructor, just to pull your own chute.

descriptoin is there for a reason.

K Karen E Lol

At the end of the video the two had their AAD activate their reserve. This typically happens when the AAD is programmed to open the reserve canopy when you reach an altitude of 1,500 feet or below when falling. Thats why dude was pissed, and thats why at the end the guy in the background of the camera shot had 2 canopies above him.

David McIntyre The problem is simple: Skydiving is not for everyone.

learjetjunki Neither is instructing either. Coach should have tracked and pulled long ago.

No he pulled his main. It couldn't be any clearer.

Read the description

+CHICKEN SALAD someone needs a nap

Smurfalicious Gaming fuck u

+CHICKEN SALAD alright buddy

+CHICKEN SALAD DO IT NOW! I SAID DO IT!! NOW!

Yes, but it seems to be optional.

+David Salt Says the guy who has NEVER jumped before.

+Michael Gajewski You are right, but I have flown a plane and I look around. Did you?

Had my USPA license to skydive for several years and made hundreds of jumps at dozens of drop zones. NEVER ONCE did I see anyone else around me deploying their chute when I did solo jumps. If someone is jumping alongside you then YES, you will see them deploy as long as they are still right next to you. If they track away or change altitude, you will NEVER see them as you freefall at 120mph. Everyone on the plane leaves at different intervals and are therefore spread out so they don't open on top of each other. If you watch this video the instructor clearly and correctly waits to pull until the student jumper pulls which was VERY CLOSE to the ground and well beyond the recommended altitude under FAA guidelines. He's correct to say he was 3 seconds from death if he opened at 1000'. The fact that both of his chutes opened is very dangerous and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. You wouldn't know any of this even though you have 'flown a plane and looked around.'

+Michael Gajewski Thats funny, because if I had $10 for every youtube video of people jumping together out of plane or helicopter, I would have a nice chunk of change. As for not seeing anyone around, well that flies in the face of jumpers at the airport that I used to go to...they would sit around after a jump and make comments of what they say of who pulled and when.

+Mark Allwood Ok, so he's got a massive tool. I'm sure is Wife is happy.

+Greg Spencer dude you clearly dont jump. we pull at 500 all the time. when you grow some balls and actually come jump then you can talk.

+tripletrash nope don't jump, must be someone else in all my youtube videos......whuffo

+tripletrash rofl....i don't jump lol....guess you haven't seen my youtube page...take that 500ft bullshit somewhere else whuffo

+Greg Spencer no one cares that you stole a bunch of videos and made a youtube. we base jump from helecopters at 25,000 feet dude. real shit

+tripletrash a skydiving canopy takes more than 500ft to open at terminal

Meanwhile base jumpers routinely open at a tenth of this height.

+Julia Deans meanwhile base jumpers routinely fall at speeds lower than terminal velocity

+Jon Thorvaldsson ...and meanwhile, base bumpers use different gear with faster canopy deployment.... and I might add that the fatality stats for base jumping are... a little less favourable, for the lack of a better word...

Just make a ball of yourself and open up, you basically reset your mind. Worked for me when I got myself in a flat spin

+Mike Zilla Zombies with chutes. The end is near.