On May 11, 6:34 am, Pat Flannery wrote:
wrote:

I don't think I like that kind of redundancy. At our skydiving club,
there
once were two guys who opened their chutes too close to one another.
The chutes got tangled together. Fortunetly their reserve chutes
worked
fine.

What if you get a streamer on your main chute, and open your reserve
chute without first jettisoning the main chute, so they become entangled?
That's happened fatally more than once due to panic by skydivers.

I don't think it happens much anymore. I know it did happen a long
time
ago. But nowadays you have a single cord to pull for both jettisoning
the main and deploying the reserve. If you pull the cord only half way
the main is jettisoned but the reserve isn't deployed, I don't
recommend
doing that.


Alain Fournier