Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG!SKYDIVE From: SKYDIVE@f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG (SKYDIVE) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Re: Near Accident... Message-ID: <2718.27ED8A2F@ehsnet.fidonet.org> Date: 22 Mar 91 04:34:34 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 28 Reply-to: Bill.Caefer@p0.f853.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Caefer) Fido-To: uiucuxc!athena.mit.edu!jnrees In a message of , Uiucuxc!Athena.Mit.Edu!Jnrees (1:233/15) writes: >1) If Person 2 had an RSL there is a good chance his reserve would >have deployed into the mess on the plane. U> I don't really see this at all. If I understand this correctly, he U> was hanging below the step suspended by his tangled main. If he had U> an RSL, then upon cutting away he would have a reserve deployment U> similar to a static-line assist deployment. If the plane wasn't U> flying level, then *maybe* the reserve pilot chute could get wrapped U> up on something. Otherwise, I don't think a reserve entanglement is U> probable. You are correct. There is no way that he could have had anything but a clean deployment. No different from any other cutaway. If anything, maybe even safer. --- msged 2.07 --- eecp 1.45 LM2 * Origin: Infinity Ltd. (1:102/853) -- SKYDIVE - via FidoNet node 1:233/13 (ehsnet.fidonet.org)