Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!unizh!cap From: cap@ifi.unizh.ch Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Re: Hang on Dude Message-ID: <1990Nov20.213144.10267@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: 20 Nov 90 21:31:44 GMT References: <2287.2741CE11@ehsnet.fidonet.org> <1990Nov15.140720.20871@eng.ufl.edu> <1990Nov17.003424.1117@athena.mit.edu> Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science Lines: 31 In article <1990Nov17.003424.1117@athena.mit.edu> jnrees@athena.mit.edu (Jim Rees) writes: > >I believe something like this happened to a cameraman at one of the >recent Thai boogies. He forgot to hook up the chest strap, and as the >last one out of a large tailgate on a large formation he was in a >steep track until his rig blew right off his back. If this is >inaccurate, there was an article about the incident in Skydiving >Magazine. > >Too bad for the guy in Hawaii. I occassionally have dreams of this >kind of thing happening, and it really makes me remember to get an >equipment check on every load. > Phewewewew - I nearly succeeded ending up in a similar situation when starting to jump squares several years ago. I used to jump rounds before that and a hard tension on the chest strap gave me the idea that I had it fastened. That was okay for the rounds, but the square was in a gear with a velcro on the chest strap. So I just fastened the strap with the velcro, everything looked alright, I felt that tension and boarded the plane. It was my instructor who happened to find out, that I did close the strap just using the velcro - and that I had a totally wrong routing of the strap. Hm. . -- * Dr. Clemens H. CAP cap@ifi.unizh.ch Phone +01 257-4326 * Dept. of Computer Science University of Zurich Winterthurerstr. 190 * CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland #include #exclude * !!! BOYCOTT LOTUS AND APPLE AS LONG AS THEY MAKE LOOK_AND_FEEL LAWSUITS !!!