Posted on May 29, 2017
During a jump, have you ever had to deploy your reserve parachute?
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I'm a 5 jump chump and all my jumps went fine, thankfully. I was wondering who here on RP ever had to pull their reserve chute during a jump, and what that experience was like. Or, if you saw this happen to a friend, etc. Would enjoy some stories.
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I would think that number will rise a good bit with the introduction of the square chute in static line jumping, maybe? what y'all think?
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LTC Stephen C.
LTC Jeff Shearer, I've been retired since '98 and off jump status since forever, so I can't give any firsthand observations about jumping the T-11. I still have Army buddies who jump and I've tried to read about the new canopy/container system. From what I've heard, there have been many issues, injuries and a number of fatalities associated with the T-11. Hopefully, they'll get the kinks worked out sooner than later, and not at the expense of the paratrooper (injuries and death).
Personally, the idea of transitioning from a steerable canopy to a non-steerable canopy seems regressive, but maybe that's just the old skydiver in me and there's "method to the Army's madness" that's unknown to me!
Personally, the idea of transitioning from a steerable canopy to a non-steerable canopy seems regressive, but maybe that's just the old skydiver in me and there's "method to the Army's madness" that's unknown to me!
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Not i, but i did watch a British paratrooper burn in with a total malfunction and survive
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Two jumps ago we were doing a night combat masstac, and a fellow jumpers canopy deployed inside of mine. We both pulled our reserves which ended up tangled underneath us, and the other jumpers canopy collapsed. We rode mine all the way in, packed our stuff and Charlie miked.
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Never had to pull my reserve or seen it *have* to be pulled, but I have seen it pulled nonetheless. Just an accident where the reserve deployed on the jumper after his main canopy had already deployed. So the the reserve did not actually deploy itself but just shot out.
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I've pulled twice. One was an AWADS jump and I blew past at least one other jumper. The other time, I had a slow opening and at 7 I pulled only to end up with two full canopies.
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Never deployed it on purpose or on accident with 30+ jumps...However the one time I needed to my chute collapsed at what is estimated at approximately 80 ft off the ground landed like a sack of bricks. Broke my back hip and ankle discharged shortly after.
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