My first AFF jump on 6/4/2023. I had 9 tandems before this, but that obviously wasn't enough😅 Grateful to my instructor for helping me through this one. Here's to learning and never sucking this much again🥲
We didn't have instructors who jumped with us when I learned free fall. It looks like that back mounted rip cord might be hard to reach and need some help possibly. Nice job, btw!
Highly recommend getting some wind tunnel time! I have an hour so far and 2 years ago I did 3 static line jumps and personal stuff happened but I found a good instructor and getting as much tunnel time as I can before I get my skydiving license soo I can speed up the process and also spend less money. You’ll realize once you get in the tunnel , flying your body efficiently takes alot time and although I wasn’t ganna take that route and it came to me and just fell in my hands I’m soo happy I found the tunnel and my instructor. I’ll be in the tunnel just as much in the sky!
You did just fine. Voila! Just like magic your chute deployed fine (with a little help from your instructor). It probably wouldn't have been your last (instructor or no instructor) but you make a great point about having an instructor close by for initial jumps. My feeling is that the chute deployment handle (or grip) on most rigs can't (by design) generally be positioned to avoid initially going a little unstable. But hey, as you point out, instructors are there to assist people at a certain level of training. It looks like (from your recent April 12) clip that you've achieved the competence and confidence building level to now avoid the necessity for an instructor to descend with you (if the camerperson fiming you April 12 wasn't an instructor). Instructors descending with students is of course a contingency, descent technique training and a reassurance thing. The instructor filmed in this clip seemed to have managed the abnormal satisfactorily, and so I'm not sure why another instructor would have needed to be there with you during your descent on this occasion. Encouraging and asserting the "hand slightly above and forward of helmet" (opposite arm) position to aerodynamically to balance out the asymmetric drag created by moving the other arm when attempting to pull the chute deployment handle is the way to go (as you've later demonstrated). The "hard arch" position is wise advice, but things don't always pan out just relying on hard arch attempts to get stable again. Anyway, who hasn't had twists and who hasn't gone unstable during a dive? The ones who are yet to. That's my guess. But hey, a great learning experience and (in retrospect) probably a lot of fun for you too. Thanks for bringing this to us. It's a most valuable presentation for novices and seasoned skydivers alike.
Plenty of dzs do tandem progression. This was not their first jump, just the first jump on their own rig. They might have been trained fully, students panic all the time. All of this is on the instructor.
Wheres your second AFF instructor? This is why you have 2 with you until you've passed level 3. Glad youre ok. Practice your malfunction drill and make sure your AAD is on if you plan to continue jumping.
@user-om7ik3ne2r not at all drop zones. In my opinion they all should have 2 instructors to start for the students that apparently can't grasp the concept of arching💀
Yes! Having a better arch position would have prevented most if not all of this from happening! They will drill it in when you go for ground school, but always ARCH.
need to just relax and let the wind arch your body, as soon as you couldn't find the pull out you go tense (understandable) and the issues really start.
Remember big hard Arch. My skydiving rig the pilot chute handle was on my leg strap by my hip, i fidnt have to feel for it, i could see it. Why isnt there 2 instructors if this is aff? And he shouldn't have let you go. And why is the pilot chute handle so hard to reach? Alot of questions about this jump. It wasn't your fault. Equipment looked dodgy, and the instructor should have never let go of you. If you jump again and they lose you, remember hard arch, no kicking, and altitude awareness. And have them make that pilot chute handle easier to get too.
I have 20 something jumps after this one so I definitely learned how to be much more aware and in control up there! That spin we were in was VERY fast and disorienting and in my opinion he really had no option but to let go when he lost his grip the first time. I think my brain just completely panicked as it felt like a couple seconds between the spinning and him grabbing and pulling for me. It felt like I didn't even have time to react. I got a lot of tunnel time after this for very obvious reasons🤣
@@kenni__kay That's great, be safe. Don't do anything that you're uncomfortable doing, be honest with your instructors. And there's nothing wrong with deploying the chute at higher altitude for extra cushion time. Keep at it, eventually it will be second nature and you'll be able to maneuver up there just by thinking about it.
Since this video I've done over 4h 3m in tunnel and got my A license! It definitely could have all been prevented if I had tunnel time before this jump
@@BWS952 this was technically jump number 10 since I did 9 tandems (2 in Switzerland, 7 in the States), but it was my first AFF level 1 that we do right after ground school. I was supposed to practice touch my pilot chute twice and then pull at altitude, but that didn't go to plan lol
I don't think that at all. It's hard wrangling a flailing spaghetti noodle that doesn't know how to arch correctly😅 It could have all been prevented with a little tunnel time
@@kenni__kay that's literally his job. That flailing was not that severe and an AFFI should be able to catch that. Really, it should have never started in the first place, so it's a double failure. You're right about tunnel time, the AFFI needs it because he doesn't know how to fly belly very well.
@AltitudeOutlaw I understand where you're coming from, but I'll always appreciate how he handled it afterwards regardless. I was so panicked that I had ended up on my back that I probably wouldn't have pulled in time. There were much better ways to handle it, but it was a learning experience for us both. I have the video of my repeat level 1 jump up and he had a much better handle on me knowing what to expect lol
Fun fact: The chances of Dying while skydiving is .28 per 100,000 jumps and dying while driving a motorized vehicle is 1 in 101 So driving is a more dangerous SPORT lol
Ummm no skydiving is very safe. I started before there were wind tunnels. And I never had instructors jump with me. 4 DRCP static lines and then I was instructed I was off the static line, and counted to 15 then pulled my chute. I didn't even have an altimeter at the time. There were 10 deaths skydiving last year out of over 3 million jumps. More kids died playing football the same year.
Oh man do I wish this was my instructors training jump. I guess you can say it was because I had absolutely no idea what in the world was going on and he really had to use all his training. I had 9 tandems before this, but had never jumped solo before. I feel I almost died that day and it put skydiving into a whole different perspective for me. I love the sport, but it can take everything away in an instant if you're not confident in your abilities to save your own life. I'm glad I can laugh about it now that I'm here, but if it hadn't been for his quick thinking and pulling my chute for me, I don't think I'd be here today.
I'm glad I cut it as someone good enough to train an instructor tho🤣🤭 I'll let RedBull know that I was flying good enough to be mistaken for a pro on my first AFF jump😉
