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.
As stated in the description. Things are closer than they appear in the video. In this case, too close. A freefaller colliding with someone under canopy will most likely result in a double fatality.
Communication with everybody on the plane and look over your back or do a barrel roll before deployment to check the air space above you. He was in my group there is no excuse for this fuck up. I posted this so that everybody an learn from this major screw up from two jumpers.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you were tracking in his direction for some time before pull time. Was that the case? If he was in the group following you, then you were likely tracking up jump run. If he was in your group, then how did the two of you get so far apart that you lost track of each other that his position came as a total shock? Not meaning to lecture the poster - mostly a reaction to some of the less well-directed comments this video seems to be getting.
In the same spirit: wave-off and barrel roll before pulling are just great ideas, especially useful when you lost track of another jumper in the group. As can be seen from the upper jumper video, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to spot someone tracking below you, while it is much easier to see someone from below.
A question from non-skydiver. The jumper bellow should wave and look up for a split second to see if there is someone falling on him? If he saw him. What should he do then? I expect there wasnt much time.
Never heard about looking up before pulling, but if you notice someone close to you when thats not agreed to do, turn 90 degrees away from them and try to go forward as much as possible.
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.
i dont really know, but i think some of them tracked into the wrong direction. When you seperate, everybody tracks away from the group so everybody is free to pull. When two people track into the same direction, things like this in the video arent unlikely to happen
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).
Are you doing a solo, or a group dive? If it was a group dive, where was everyone else while you were backflying? How many jumps do you have, and how many does the guy who blew past you have?
I only have forty jumps and this is my big fear, dont want to be the cause of this, dont want this to happen to me, what is the best advice for avoiding this, is it only jump with people you jump with regularly, it seems to me people have like a 1 min conversation right before they get on the plane to figure shit out, that is scary to me. From the beginning of Skydiving i've had to trust other poeple with my life, makes me only want to jump by myself,
Best way to avoid it is avoid this drop zone, it appears to have a high number of interesting incidents going by how many times it appears on you tube.
@@loekloekloek I have no idea ,but there appears to be numerous videos on You Tube featuring "interesting" sky dives at this location :) If you like adrenaline it might actually be the best place to go !
It’s when you fly away from everyone for a few seconds before deployment to give space between opening canopies so they don’t risk collisions with off-heading openings etc. To track you pull your arms by your side, straighten your legs, point your toes, flatten your body, which gives you more forward speed over the ground.
Not always. Jumprun at most large DZ's will change daily depending on winds. Sometimes the correct direction to track will be completelt WITH the direction of the runway. Track OPPOSITE of jumprun
"perpendicular to the landing strip" WHUT?? as if winds up high are always the same direction as winds on the ground. Track perpendicular to jump run NOT landing strip.
i'm glad he no longer jumps. i'm a photographer and i've notice when you film people most of them get really complacent, and show off. as soon as a camera's pointing at them they think they're a movie star, and it often ends in situations like this. you're doing them a favour and they try to kill you. i don't film people i don't know anymore
@@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
