Reserve Parachute Toss w/ a Twist of Lines 9/11/11 

Something similar happened to me one week ago. Though I ended up with a large cravat in a stable spiral with sink rates above 20 m/s - and this fairly close to the ground. I threw the reserve as well. Thanks for posting your video, it helps to understand.

as a glider pilot i always thought that u could only themral in gliders, this has truly opened my eyes .. this would be an amazing feeling!!

good call!!!! better safe than sorry dude, happy landings!!!!

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Best idea :))) Don't try to play "bad ass" of the day - toss that umbrella!!! Thats what it is for!!! Great job dude :)

thanks for the added info skunk, looking forward to more of your videos!

Sweet video thanks for posting

Nice job gettin down safe BTW!

At that point he was already hanging from the reserve, all he could do was wait so he thought of recording it. That's some cold blood right there. Peace

Glad, your alive, too. (My heart bumps!)

wow man !!! good work !!!

I was looking at the harness thinking there are too many colors. Than i realized this is a paraglider.

I think the book might have expected a little more, you could definitely get your glider, Yet to acknowledge that a situation so unexpected reaction is natural to take the parachute :-)

Thanks for sharing because I will never do this myself!

gnarly bro love you, be safe

Wait, you are fighting line twists to save your life.. And in the front of your mind, you're sayin, "Wait, i forgot to record this, or did I, no the camera is off, okay, i'll turn it back on.".. lol Thanks for putting us RU-vidrs into consideration for the video!

I had a similar situation but without the twist, so it opened again and the rescue remained in the harness. This is a clear case for throwing the reserve instantly. This glider won't open again after the twist. So yes, Paragliding is safe, if you make always the right decisions.

Thanks for the rad ending

seconds from dying and your first thought was to try to turn on your camera? lol. badass

well... if he uploaded this video, he's probably not dead =]

lucychoov, once you throw the reserve, it is just a matter of waiting for the ground. Statistically there are very few serious injuries from descending on the reserve. skunksbutt's choice to throw the reserve is a good one once the risers twist, but good training and practice will mean that you stand less chance of getting into that situation.

in one deployment, or separate?

but before the riser twists, (if you look at the wing) you have added significant left brake. It looks like this slows the rotation of the wing down, but your rotational momentum leads to the riser twists. Nice work on the quick toss. It would have been interesting if you'd had an extra couple of thousand feet as it looks like at the point of toss the wing stabilizes in normal flight.

accelerated collapses are a bitch, glad to see your ok to tell what happened, fast acro and soft landings

Nice work on the reserve toss and making it back to post the video! I think there are a couple of people on to something. In slowing the video down it looks very much like a very dynamic spin (with the combination of coming off speedbar really fast and entering a burly thermal)! I suspect you have come off of the R side faster, and thus as the wing has gone back towards stall, the Right side has stalled first, spinning it as it fell behind you. Then after a 180 deg turn toward ground

thanks man! I was just curious

@bill23818 I think Mitch was flying the gold, white, and blue glider. This all happened almost exactly at 2 o'clock.

Mr Goldsmith, I put this up here for people to learn from, and if you can use it and it helps, I would love for you to use it as well. I will be on the lookout for the book. - Stephen Nowak

I wanted to get into this sport (Power Paraglider) but that put me right off . What is a safer glider or better again the safest glider. And also how did he get out of that? Thanks.

That date is cursed....

@skyfreak909 Knowing you struggled too, in the same air on the same day at the same spot at the same time, helps me to rationalize it somehow. On a very different glider too.

Yep, Thriller 20

I'm a skydiver not a paraglider, i was just wondering if there was a cutaway system on paragliders. We would have chopped before deploying our reserve in that situation (not criticizing your decision, they're two different sports) so i was wondering how that whole deal works out, if you have to ride it out with a malfunctioning main or whatnot

i havent had a front stall but i had an accidental fullstall near the ground and i still regret not pulling out the reserve. i've seen pilots get injured for not pulling out the reserve, my father is one of them.

How hard would it be, if even possible, to kick out of those line twists? I skydive on a very regular basis and occasionally have to kick out of them, and had them bad enough once to use my reserve instead for the diving spin I was stuck since the risers were off balance in the twist. Just curious how this compares to a skydiving canopy (or wing, or whatever! lol) and dang I want to learn how paraglide!

:D Good joke.It's an addictive sport.You will fly, when you can fly.

I was flying in that area and the gold, white and blue wing in your video looks like mine and my track shows the same location that day. what time did it occur?

That is the reason I don't go up there with you bro lol

I landed safe with no scratches, nothing to worry about. Seriously though, this is middle of the day in the middle of summer on an uncertified aerobatic glider. Not even close to a tandem glider. Kinda like comparing a bike going 250mph on the freeway during heavy traffic in 60 mph winds to a sunday bicycle ride down the block. Completely different risk level. You would be surprised how smooth and mellow it feels to be up there on a good day. You want it, I know you do. Come up sometime.

What if there's someone underneath you (I could see a hanglider down there)? What's the drill for avoiding them?

what happened at the end?

Combo of release of speed and entering a thermal = dynamic full stall? Yeah, I guess that is the most likely explanation, huh? Wow. I've never flown a small acro glider, are they really that close to the stall point? Did you have any brake on whatsoever? Sometimes on my M3 when I hit a rippin thermal and the wing goes back I am all the way hands up and the wing still seems like it's far behind so I add speed for a bit. You think that could that happen to me if I was releasing bar instead?

@climb1028 Closer to stall? While I don't claim to be an aerodynamicist, I don't think so. I think if anything, the xc glider may be, seeing as though we aren't trying to maximize our l/d or our sink rates. But what do I know? I think the speed bar mostly contributed to the higher speeds that lead to a more dynamic event. You may be on to something though. I didn't see the glider go. I felt a strong pull up, not even too back and then kablamo! It may have tucked, I really don't know.

@CKAnumber2 click here 00:52 to see the reserve toss. I thought the camera was off and I wanted to at least get the landing on video after having tossed. Turns out I did have it on and I turned it off mid ride.

haha sounds awesome

Why would you end the video?..

So... how many time did you spent untangling that stuff after landing? xD

Oh okay that makes sense. I bet that was scary as heck. Shouldn't have gone on 9/11/11 lol

@pmny119 I thought the camera was off as I was just thermaling, I was trying to turn it on to at least catch the end but I ended up turning it off instead. I landed without a scratch.

happens from time to time...

I didn't think it was on, I thought I was turning it on to film my impact, I ended up turning it off instead.

What hapened next? You opened the reserve? At 0.59 the sail goes almost to hit you! It could be dangerous no? If the sail is not open regularly, how come, is at the same height with your body?

How in the hell were you not loosing altitude with the chute crumpled up in front of you? Was there another chute deployed?

a home made bike (the 1st one), in a manner of speaking... lol Completely get what you re saying. :)

full version

How was closed flying?

so your main collapsed after your reserve came out and had slowed you down? don't know if you call it your main in paragliding. round reserve?

Where are you jumping in this video?

I think u like your life very much :))

Thanks for posting, that must have been quite a ride. I'm curious if you have any ideas about what may have caused your wing to act like that? My first thought was, wow, you came off speed bar really fast, that could be just the way the video made it look though. Any ideas? Thanks, and glad you made it back to earth safely!

I now have quick release carabiners to release both my gliders main risers and the accelerator system AFTER deploying the reserve parachute. There are also harnesses that cut away first and then deploy a BASE canopy as a reserve in addition to having a "traditional" paragliding reserve, either round or rogallo steerable. Usually, if we have altitude, we try to correct the problem and fly away. It's when we are low that we throw the reserves and by then, cutting away isn't much an option.

Where's his gloves?

thriller?

you can use video in books now? what year is this? i think i accidentally drove my delorian 88 mph :(

Heavy! Deploying the reserve was a good decision. You were twisted three times and had not too much altitude left. If the glider had gone into autorotation it would have been hard to get out of the situation unharmed. What size is your Thriller? What acro maneuvers do you fly?

Yeah, he tosses the reserve chute at 0:54 Always fly with a reserve chute.

Oh Snap Is he OK

i dont have a back up parachute

did you get off the speed bar too quick?

Maybe you've never had front stall?

Did he survive

@skunksbutt Goog desition, i would do the same... better be alive udner the reserve, land into trees and destroy wing, than to make a big splat pizza down there!

Haha. Do u know that most parachute backpacks have emergency shutes. :)

im no paraglider kinda dude... but fook me id shit myself big time if that happened to me.... hope ur ok...looks great fun..

Жив? Цел? Орёл?

@ssflyer25 Kinda wish you were. Come fly with us.

Stephen i am a Paraglider too.Why u think this collapse that lead you in a twist unlickily happend?? U seemed u did nothing .. (like an acro or somvthing)

Errrr why the fuck did you cut the vid at 01:10?

he is dead? :/

I want to learn to do this,... help me out buddy, I'll fly out and take the lesson,...!

@pmny119 its different... very different. im a skydiver too but alot of friends paragilde and they say the ditch procedure can be completely different at times. obviously his decision alt is lower but he was already way past critical alt for a skydiver when he stalled/turbulence so after that he was even lower. pretty sketch with that variable terrain. we all would have called him an idiot if this was his death video too so i think he made an appropriate call.

I have 2 reserve parachutes.

thats why I don't fly hg's ? pg's have more crashes don't they ?

e man, are you alive?

i thought it said "reverse" :P

never fly on 9/11.

@skunksbutt holy shit thats fuckin scary as, how did it twist did u turn to fast? And how did u not die wtf haha

i would rather collapse my wing and go away from it then to have a negative load whack and be rolled over sideway towards the ground, and when we hit, at least its not with are face first, thats why i dont flying HG

It seems this is part 1, getting into trouble. Where is part 2, "saving my ass"? I assume you threw.

Are u alive

@Chrzaszczu1 you must be joking...

realy

lol

you shoulda known better bad things happen on 9/11

Dead?

Thats why i never interested to fly paraglider, fly with no framework of glider its too risky.

wtf 0:47

That made me cringe.

did you die?

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