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.
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