Reportaje de Antigua Canopy Tours gracias a la colaboracion de Algo Clave
The intension was to do a high altitude hop and pop from 13000 feet to work on some canopy flocking (relative work without contact). During the opening process, or perhaps due to a packing error, one of the lines of the left front riser ended up out of place creating an unusual malfunction. The canopy was unable to inflate fully on the left side, and a control check revealed that it was not possible to land the parachute safely. In order to prevent the canopy from drifting to far away form the drop zone by the upper winds, I held onto it until 4000 feet AGL, after which I cut it away and deployed the reserve. A hook knife may have remedied the situation, however my personal preference was to land under my reserve.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@peterliemberg true that… I chased down another jumpers free-bag to help him out.. and caught it in my lines.. put a bunch of drag on 1 side of my canopy… would for sure NOT do that again.
that’s un intentional malfunction for the movies and pictures about parachute malfunctions. You can download that pictures on the website of the brasilian parachute confederation
Well, that was a waste of $20.00
nice reserve opening though…
You may want to rethink chasing your freebag (5:39) from under your last parachute… Though it sucks when you lose it, it may suck even more if it turns your reserve in the same ball of shit you just cut away from. Unless you jump with 3 parachutes, of course…
April fools? Are you saying someone tampered with his shoot as a joke? If i made it to the ground id beat some ass.
i wish my droppy was in the desert. there’s so few outs here you can easily lose your main, and you can’t really mess around trying to catch your free bag. looks like fun good work anyway lad
should have chucked eye of the tiger in the background, just for a long fight scene
ive seen something similar before…. (the mal that is) it happened to a bloke that had it packed into the dbag (everything done as normal etc) and when stowing the lines, someone kicked one and looped it around the dbag…. you cant tell anything is wrong until opening
he even tries to catch it along the way… god damn you!
Nice hook turn on the reserve! Strange but definitely had to be a packing error.
land it in the pond and save the repack cash for stiff drinks?
preventing your main to drift too far away from your DZ is your motivation on hanging onto something you an’t land and waste 9000 feet? That could have been 9000 feet that you may have needed very badly, if you’d experience issues with your reserve.. Good to see you landed okay!
@lookus69 That was the freebag. Often the hardest thing to find, short of dropped handles
I must admit, you’ve got style busting a front flip between cutting away and pulling your reserve!
hahaha remeber that prank we played on jimmy where he nearly died wasnt that funny XD
5:40 Great when trying to catch the parachute! XD
very big balls dude!!
awesome pack dude!
I had a similar mal over Moab a couple weeks ago. I wish I would have ridden it out as long as you did, I might still have my main. Instead, the Colorado River has it. I did recover the freebag, so was able to get a re-pack and use my spare canopy. But that’s $2k I didn’t need to spend.
nice one
where is this dz ?
@TrackStar828 If you hold on to your handles, and can recover the main canopy, and reserve freebag it’s pretty much just the cost of repacking the reserve.
Can someone tell me how much it costs to have to cut away your main chute and use the reserve about? H
what? is the other jumper on reserve too?!!
Hook knife would have been great! One line replacement is cheaper than a reserve repack and/or losing your main/freebag.. Way to stay calm though.. Thanks for sharing!
you are one tall bitch