@TheSpiritof1969 Yeah , know what you mean...every time we were caught,yellings aside,added 20 days of service plus lots of extra joyfull duties......lol
About the time you were doing your military service I was jumping C9 TU and LL at Headcorn in Kent. I remember one day an instructor caught us using back risers. He was ex Parachute Regiment and, not to put too fine a point on it, he was not amused. There had been an incident at another club where someone had managed to partially deflate his canopy with catastrophic results.
I don't think anyone was trying to stand up. There was hardly any wind and those slow moving canopies had a forward drive of 4 or 5 mph. They were moving forward over the ground when they landed which is not ideal for the classic landing position (feet together knees bent)
Served military duties ( some 27 years ago ) Greek paratroopers-special recon..(E.T.A.).Out of 85 jumps, many of them were standing up using MC1-1B's back risers.Bad habbit , i confess , we use to do it as a sign of extra skills not to mention the showoff...This guy just had a bad PLF he was'nt trying stand up landing. Today i fly a Sabre2 150 and try not to swoop much....Greetings from Hellas ( Greece )
@TheSpiritof1969 Yeah , know what you mean...every time we were caught,yellings aside,added 20 days of service plus lots of extra joyfull duties......lol
11aekaras 3 months ago
@11aekaras
About the time you were doing your military service I was jumping C9 TU and LL at Headcorn in Kent. I remember one day an instructor caught us using back risers. He was ex Parachute Regiment and, not to put too fine a point on it, he was not amused. There had been an incident at another club where someone had managed to partially deflate his canopy with catastrophic results.
Some of those canopies were date stamped 1953 !!
TheSpiritof1969 3 months ago
Are those old TUs still being used?
I don't think anyone was trying to stand up. There was hardly any wind and those slow moving canopies had a forward drive of 4 or 5 mph. They were moving forward over the ground when they landed which is not ideal for the classic landing position (feet together knees bent)
TheSpiritof1969 3 months ago
Served military duties ( some 27 years ago ) Greek paratroopers-special recon..(E.T.A.).Out of 85 jumps, many of them were standing up using MC1-1B's back risers.Bad habbit , i confess , we use to do it as a sign of extra skills not to mention the showoff...This guy just had a bad PLF he was'nt trying stand up landing. Today i fly a Sabre2 150 and try not to swoop much....Greetings from Hellas ( Greece )
11aekaras 3 months ago
he didnt slip
55jumpchump 5 months ago
i wish i came down that slow. shitt
ahhhjoshsemperfi 9 months ago
No blown sections on either of those 'chutes. They are MC1-1B's and have the proper 11 gores removed in a T-U configuration.
daragoya 11 months ago
not that bad
minutelloc 1 year ago
so uhhhh.. blown sections... larger than a basketball.... on both chutes. whats that about, im confused.
MrEasley7 1 year ago
hahaha what the hell kind of PLF was that.. horrible, absolutely horrible. he shouldve done a front left PLF.
Sorth 2 years ago