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From: curl@wjvax.UUCP (Jim Curl)
Newsgroups: net.rec.skydive
Subject: Jumpmaster assisted deployment
Message-ID: <571@wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 18:35:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: wjvax.571
Posted: Fri Oct  4 18:35:33 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 07:10:49 EDT
Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif.
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I am fairly new to this sport (16 jumps) and was surprised to read in
this group about a non-static-line method of initial training in parachuting.
The method described seemed to me to be somewhat more dangerous than the
traditional static-line approach.

After reading about it, I came across this note in the October issue of
Parachutist magazine that I thought might be of interest to readers of this
group:


	DEPLOYMENT TEST ENDED

	     The Palatka Parachute Center in Forida terminated its
	experiment with jumpmaster assisted deployments for student
	jumpers recently after a student trapped a pilot chute and
	held it until the automatic activation device deployed at
	about 1,000 feet.  DZ owner/operator Don Yahrling had been
	conducting the program under a waiver to the Basic Safety
	Regulations from the USPA Safety and Training Committee.
	     The jumpmaster assist method involves the jumpmaster
	extracting the student's hand-deploy pilot chute before
	climb-out and deploying it immediately after exit.  The
	method is especially popular in Canada but is employed at
	very few U.S. DZs.



                                               ( Jim Curl     )
                                               ( San Jose, CA )