Posted on 02/23/2022 7:36:09 AM PST by rktman
The skydiving pair was spotted midair struggling to deploy their parachutes, local resident Alex Arias, who witnessed the incident, told KPRC. The male instructor was reportedly unconscious after hitting the ground while the female student was awake and calling for help. “He let off his primary and then the secondary shoot like opened halfway up so he didn’t fall like a straight fall, he was like 50 percent shoot, like a corkscrew,” Arias said, KPRC reported.
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I’ve had to periodically do parachute and ejection seat training.
I’ve done the math. Im very tall and would almost certainly break my neck on the canopy at a full speed ejection.
I resolved to try to land unless my cockpit in engulfed in flames.
This is what can happen when you jump out of a perfectly good airplane. 😐
As we paratroopers used to say the plane was maintained by the Air Force so by definition they weren’t perfectly good.
That is how you know it is journalism.
Spelling is no longer required, let your phone take care of it. And don't get me started on the misuse of homonyms these days.
Low vs high dopamine levels.
People climb mountains without ropes.
Some people are addicted to the rush of danger.
Some always will be.
You’d prefer they were worked on by lower ASVAB soldiers?...
I was a paratrooper in the Army. I got paid $55 a month extra for risking my life with each jump. Once I got out I never had the desire to do it again.
Not entirely different than people addicted to horror movies for the excitement, except the movies can’t actually kill you (unless a heart attack is triggered, perhaps?)
Yep, for some roller coasters and scary movies do it.
I recently saw a video of a guy that was getting bored with the flying suits. So he had one made with an electric motor attached to his chest. Wild stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmRQKZZ_wXc
“As we paratroopers used to say the plane was maintained by the Air Force so by definition they weren’t perfectly good.” [Dogfaced Soldier, post 23]
Not supported by facts.
USAF maintenance is (of course) less than perfect, but it is better than all the other armed services combined.
I spent more than half my active duty career as an operational tester. Among numerous other duties, it fell to me to collect maintenance reliability data on sundry systems.
The parachute training was for a static-line deployment. Line up at the door when you hear 5 rings of the bell. BYO knife to deal with troublesome lines. It's ALWAYS going to be an over water landing. Don't unclip the chute until your boots strike the water, then get clear of the canopy quickly and deploy floatation. Thankfully, the old bird never made it necessary. After stepping out, you have to pull both steering handles together to "cut a tail" so you can steer the chute and avoiding spinning on the way down. Some of our team members were too heavy for the chutes and ineligible to fly.
I've never been attracted to "sport" parachuting. I accepted the need to have it on the P3. As a fixed wing, single engine private pilot, I prefer to remain in a good, functioning aircraft.
You don’t need a parachute to jump out of an airplane.
You need one to jump out twice.
Another activity I’m glad I avoided 🤪
I’d find a different instructor.
I made 5 jumps many years ago. One morning I was getting ready to go to the airport to possibly make my first “hop and pop” and watching CNN. They had a beautiful video of 3 professional skydivers falling to their deaths (short story: their parachutes got tangled together doing a “stack”). I decided I had had enough.
Like an old man sending soup back at a deli.
Never jump out of a perfectly sound aircraft.
What I always say about skydying is that I would NEVER trust someone ELSE to pack my parachute and I sure as hell wouldn’t trust MYSELF to pack it.
Skydiving is safe every time its tried, until it isn’t.
Some might say it is more likely for me to die in my car than skydiving. TRUE.
It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to die skydiving as I will NEVER be in that situation.
Remember the Bungy Jumping craze? That also was totally safe, until it wasn’t.
Stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door.
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