Last night at work we were doing some night parachuting with combat equipment (a back pack attached to your legs).
I stuck my hand up and volounteered to jump and was happily in the plane at 8:50pm.
We got the order to jump and i went out, waited 3secs and pulled my rip cord.
Unfortunatly i was not as stable as i would have liked and now my parachute was wrapped around my right leg.
Exiting at 3,000ft you only have 20secs before you become one with the earth, and i had already used up 5 of those.
Laying on my back with one parachute around my leg i thought it to be a good time to see if my reserve would play the game.
I cut my main parachute away and deployed my reserve.
I was very relived to see a parachute above my head, and started to vigorously shake my leg to get rid of the parachute still attached.
I am happy that i landed safe and where i planned to initially land.
Though my mates gave me plenty of flack when i walked into the hanger minus one parachute.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
How many beers did it take to calm the nerves!
Rob...
Boxer Power
Member of DMLRK.....Die Mittler Lebuns Resto Komeradschaft
i know you have to cut the parachute away so not to tangle with the reserve
but the idea of no reserve for the reserve chills me.
its something you dont wont to try but good to see the reserve works👍
& your safe to jump another day or night
wally
Wow, That sounds pretty amazing. Nice you are here to tell the story 😉
Put on a clean pair of undies and get back into it!!:thumb
1974 Orange Camoflage Kombi Camper
1976 Yellow Kombi Camper
Well i was about to post about a customer coming out to greet me with a 5ft diamond back python and getting me to have the thing drapped around my shoulders or tell you about his 10 year old, fan necked , big f*ck off lizard thing sitting in the front garden in the sun!
But i wont now as your day at the office seems a little more exciting and scary than mine!
So glad your okay mate , bet that saw some brown grundies!
Dan:o
"If i had to explain you wouldnt understand"
The Lower Class
The brown grundies got a fair workout i will admit.
I am just glad it was at night, that way i couldn't see the ground rushing towards me.
But yes i am glad to be here and in one piece.
And i am still copping flack.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
It was definitely not your time to go :sandrine
...the flack would be nervous banter....they are glad they weren't in your position...it all sounds so good in theory...I'm sure they must wonder if it would all turn out fine like in your case...with my luck the reserve would tangle around my leg and my 20 seconds would be upl :jesus
So glad you lived to tell the tale :beer
On ya Lee, your a lucky bugger. Thants why I work on the water and not in the air.
wow...
Have u bought a lottery ticket yet??? can i be part of ur syndicate?
I would prolly be screaming my head off after 3 secs...or praying very hard...
dubless. 🥲
🥷 And who the helled parked the Mitsubishi "Prancer" under my house??? 🥷
I just love the fact that you get paid for that kind of excitement.
Spare the Duct tape, spoil the job - Red Green
Cheers Pete.
I'm still jumping too mate, no water for me 😁
Frank.
Its a great thing to be paid for it.
Jen.
We have a good bunch of guys at work, and i know that the flack i was getting was all in jest.
And i know that they were all thinking that they were glad that it wasn't them, i know because i have thought the same about others when they have had a malfunction.
And i am glad that the big fella up stairs wasn't ready for me.
BugEyedBabe.
Unfortunatly the lotto ticket didn't prove as lucky as the reserve 🥲
Oh well, my mate who packed the reserve has a few:beer coming his way.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Lee
Mate you have BIGGER balls than me I would freeze and crash into the ground
Do you have to wait once you have cut the main chute away for it to clear ??? then pull the reserve or is there time to wait FARK 20 seconds
Glad your still here to play with VWs
And i still dont see any reason for jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane,,, 🙂 :blah:blah:blah
Hey Dave,
Yeah you have to wait until your main chute has cleared or else you might risk an entanglement.
though it doesn't take long for the main to clear once you do cut it away, only about one second or so.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
3mates giving you flack ?!?!?!?! damn they should be buying you drinks 4 being such a legend !!!! thats crazy mate glad to hear you made it all safe and well.
Founding member of the C'town Rat-Pack
ShitShitShit!!!:sandrineman you need a pair of fairy wings.Have a:beer...JVLRacing
Hahaha pyr0 thats what i think too.
But thats just the way we do things,
guy nearly dies = give him shit.
jvl054 i think a few beers were in order too.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
Hey lee
who said they were 'perfectly good' aeroplanes 😉
good to see that the packing they taught you worked 😀
'Ah, whatever................'
Mate let's hope you never have to do it with someone shooting at you! Three years in a baggy green skin was enough for me!!
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !
Yeah soft notch the being shot at part would be very unfunky.
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
thats not good mate im glad your alright though
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me
The main chute was caught round your legs ,,,, u must have nerves of steel
YES have several beers
Cheers Barls,
Don't know about nerves of steel, most people say more like rocks in the head 🤪
Lee.
some people are like slinky's
they have no useful purpose
but they are fun to watch
when you push them down the stairs
