24 April 1997
turn into a bow tie close to the ground. This caused the jumper to die
when he could not survive the rapid rate of fall. Experienced jumpers
can take this chances, but the post was meant to say that a new jumpers
should free to "when in doubt throw it out" without being harassed on the
ground. There have been to many fatalities to students that are hesitant
to initiate procedures that could save their life, because they were critisized
for cutting away in a similar situation. It is much better to be saved unneccessarily
to many times than to be saved one to few times.
Metrology Laboratory Staff, after sipping a cup of coffee, rushed to ride on
a taxicab goin' to Domestic Airport where I am scheduled to ride with my
Jumpmaster on a eigth jumpers capacity Cessna , but we're just two
boarded on that plane.
instructed me some points to remembered, until we spotted the dropzone
at Santor, Batangas. and I am excited for my second jump.
around like a piece of board. At deploy I see just a half of the canopy,
and the lines are twisted, I kicked my left legs sideways that made me
several turns and I did, no more twisted line but nothing happened to my
canopy still folded at the left side, I pulled the toggles and tried some
troubleshooting but it doesn't work, my slider was stucked at the upper part of
the lines, suddenly my canopy spinned rapidly, I checked my altimeters, it's
already at 2000 going fast down to 1800. I remembered what the Jumpmaster
told us during ground training that "when in doubt throw it out", and at 1800 , I
cutaway and pulled my reserve.
My Jumpmaster tapped me on my shoulder and said, " Well that was an
expensive jump", Yeah he's right I have to pay the reserve's chute packing
and for the lost ripcord. Anyway, what a cool feeling right after I pulled my reserve.
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