Posted on 01/01/2022 10:13:19 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
—”Often wondered why they didn’t release their main chute,drop and deploy their emergency chute.”
Years ago when Uncle Sam was paying for my recreation...
I had a major malfunction, a Mae West... cutting lose was processed and dismissed in less than a nanosecond!!!
And I’m not a quick thinker!
And the typical static line training is about 1200 AGL
Decidedly less for combat drops.
And I would be very unhappy if a Jumpmaster sent me out cloudbusting? Yes, some do it for fun, sometimes.
Worse that I had was a twisted line that I was able to kick out. I also had a spotter on the ground telling me what to do. Newbies had to pull at 5,500 ft. to give us time to get out of any predicaments. We also had shoulder loads that were supposed to deploy the emergency chute if we were descending at a fast rate and below 1,000 feet.
Never wanted to try that out to see if it worked.
—”Never wanted to try that out to see if it worked.”
At a club jump, a Captain went out at 10k and decided to test an auto-release...he is way low and someone shouts PULL!
IIRC we were to pull about 2k?
His wife standing next to me is making noises, others are shouting...
Crazy low he pops.
The auto-release was triggered but never deployed!
The Club I trained at would ban you if you had a habit of low pulls. Don’t recall what their ceiling was but if they felt you were pulling too low, you were banned.
I quit about a 1/2 dozen jumps from getting certified. When you did, they’d let you jump out of a helicopter or hot air balloon. I was told that doing so was the closest you would experience the feeling of falling and flailing like you dream about.
“Animals like frogs, crabs, and small fish are then rained down when the forecast calls for showers.”
Frognado or Catfishnado don’t sound too exiting (unless one is a cat), but a Crabnado with giant menacing crabs, that one could be interesting!
I witnessed this phenom just north of Houston in the small town of Sheppard. After a typical Texas frog floater, there were catfish every where, they were about 3 1/2” long.
I got a a large drink cup and put 4 on em in it and took them home.
2 of them lived along time till they got to big for my 30 gal tank, I released them in a stock tank (small pond)
I think the forecast is what dissolves the cloud then the fish have nothing to ride on. Maybe we can get the Air Force to seed the clouds with little parachutes?
Paging Charles Fort
—”(unless one is a cat)”
Our dogs enjoy seafood too!
Would you want to drop down into the middle of a thunderstorm?
Hahaha! My dog is on the famous seefood diet. She sees food, she eats it. (Corny Dad joke)
No on would. Why do you ask?
Grandma gave me a book about thirty years ago that had a chapter devoted to this phenomenon - “Mysteries of the Unexplained” by Reader’s Digest.
It was an extremely interesting read.
—”My dog is on the famous seefood diet. “
Now that you mention it, every dog that ever lived with us was on that diet!
Your previous post suggested that they do that: cut their main chute and drop down through the Storm And deploy their reserves chute
Or did I misunderstand?
Sorry. Misunderstood. The reason to cut the main chute is to drop below the storm. The way that I was made to understand it, when your chute was deployed and they went through a storm cloud, the chute being deployed is what kept them hung up in the storm cloud. Cutting the chute would allow the person to get through the clouds and allow them to get closer to their target.
Gotcha, thanks!
Is this biblical?
Maybe too many liberals in Texas so a warning has been sent.
Where are the loaves?
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