Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG!SKYDIVE From: SKYDIVE@f15.n233.z1.FIDONET.ORG (SKYDIVE) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Student in tow (was Re: oops (urban folklore) Message-ID: <3086.2868B7F8@ehsnet.fidonet.org> Date: 24 Jun 91 02:51:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 32 Reply-to: Bill.Caefer@p0.f853.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Caefer) Fido-To: uiucuxc!cs.utexas.edu!bunda >... if the student was out of it, the JM was supposed to do this >Rambo imitation, where, with flip-knife firmly gripped between teeth, he >would attach a caribiner (sp) to his harnes and the static line, let himself >slowly down the static line, grab the student's reserve handle, cut the S/L, >pull the reserve, track off and dump himself. U> Sometime in the last couple of years I remember reading about someone U> doing a reality check on this strategy, and they decided that it U> was unworkable with a Cessna 182, which loses altitude fast with U> anyone (or two) outside the plane on the end of a static line. That doesn't seem like a real problem to me. After all, we routinely put 4 and sometimes 5 people out there. It does decend, true, but there is nothing saying you have to leave the power cut either. The reality check story checks out though. What I heard as the main impediment was the fact that there was no way in hell of sliding down the static line slow enough to keep from seriously hurting one or both participants. --- msged 2.07 --- eecp 1.45 LM2 * Origin: Infinity Ltd. (1:102/853) -- SKYDIVE - via FidoNet node 1:233/13 (ehsnet.fidonet.org)