April Fools Day Malfunction

The intension was to do a high altitude hop and pop from 13000 feet to work on some canopy flocking (relative work without contact). During the opening process, or perhaps due to a packing error, one of the lines of the left front riser ended up out of place creating an unusual malfunction. The canopy was unable to inflate fully on the left side, and a control check revealed that it was not possible to land the parachute safely. In order to prevent the canopy from drifting to far away form the drop zone by the upper winds, I held onto it until 4000 feet AGL, after which I cut it away and deployed the reserve. A hook knife may have remedied the situation, however my personal preference was to land under my reserve.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Skydiving
• canopy
• malfunction
• arizona
• line over
• cut away
• reserve

[subacute]

longest malfunction I have ever seen, I made a sandwich half way through it. Did you get all your shit back?

[charshakh]

what? is the other jumper on reserve too?!!

[Cricket202]

@peterliemberg true that... I chased down another jumpers free-bag to help him out.. and caught it in my lines.. put a bunch of drag on 1 side of my canopy... would for sure NOT do that again.

[paulomsilva]

that's un intentional malfunction for the movies and pictures about parachute malfunctions. You can download that pictures on the website of the brasilian parachute confederation

[Writer5591]

Well, that was a waste of $20.00

[CercleParaLuxembourg]

nice reserve opening though…

[peterliemberg]

You may want to rethink chasing your freebag (5:39) from under your last parachute... Though it sucks when you lose it, it may suck even more if it turns your reserve in the same ball of shit you just cut away from. Unless you jump with 3 parachutes, of course...

[chripspoe]

April fools? Are you saying someone tampered with his shoot as a joke? If i made it to the ground id beat some ass.

[beardedswine]

i wish my droppy was in the desert. there's so few outs here you can easily lose your main, and you can't really mess around trying to catch your free bag. looks like fun good work anyway lad

[beardedswine]

should have chucked eye of the tiger in the background, just for a long fight scene

[Catapultandclingfilm]

ive seen something similar before.... (the mal that is) it happened to a bloke that had it packed into the dbag (everything done as normal etc) and when stowing the lines, someone kicked one and looped it around the dbag.... you cant tell anything is wrong until opening

[Hollyweed1]

he even tries to catch it along the way... god damn you!