Reserve Deployment - After Collision

Reserve Deployment - After Collision

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• paragalidin
• collision
• reserve
• deployment
• Olu
• Deniz

[papergsmith]

THIS MUSIC IS SOOOOOOOO GAY I HATE IT!

[liambaron]

this music makes my ears bleed - you absolutely ruined the video

[Bamoman]

BS they came down relatively soft and prolly lived.....theyt did the right thang....nuff said

[dorbie]

@Bamoman According to you "Opening his reserve just incase was a good idea IMHO", poor judgement in actions like this has caused fatalities. Please discuss with an instructor. You have the evidence in front of you yet you're bending over backwards to justify and excuse a potentially fatal mistake. Learn the lesson that's presented by the evidence, not the lesson you'd prefer by speculating about improbable things that are not in evidence.

[dorbie]

@Bamoman That's a stretch. From a flight perspective they were flying with plenty of lift under a well functioning canopy. If you want to play a game of "concoct an excuse" and draw no conclusions because YOU speculate about stuff YOU don't know no matter how unlikely you're welcome to do so. I'd rather learn the appropriate safety lesson from the video. The bottom pilot caused a downplane because he deployed his reserve/rescue chute (probably needlessly) and that could have been catastrophic.

[Bamoman]

@willpalmer13 agree 100%

[Bamoman]

@dorbie you dont know if the top pilot was conscious, could have been knocked out at collision. you dont know if he was tangled in a life threating way...couldnt breath couldnt steer, you dont know what kind of strain the weight of the other pilot was putting him in...they were close enuff to talk to each other...maybe the bottom pilot was told to throw the reserve....bottom line....you dont know if they would have been just fine.....

[Bamoman]

@superjaysimmons it sure can...in the video u can see the pilots are supported by the paraglider wing till the reserve is deployed then at the end the reserve is carrying MOST of the weight of the pilots at impact

[Bamoman]

@superjaysimmons it sure can....

[Bamoman]

@colinmartens how do you surmize that? no one cay say really....but what can be said is if the bottom paraglider broke free at 50 or 100 feet from the water and his wing didnt re-open he was gonna hit hard....so opening his reserve just incase was a good idea IMHO

[IANRPARKER]

Typical motor boat driver! Probably looking backwards or in the fridge for a beer!