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Out of 14 years jumping, I only had one malfunction. Ste. Mere Eglise DZ on Ft. BRAGG (NOT LIBERTY). Had an inverted canopy on an MC1-1B. Had to steer it backwards. Not so easy, and I landed in a huge thorn bush. LOL

When in doubt....put the laundry out !!!!

Yea, 1000 ft is close to the ground. It's just a little over 3 football fields so I never waited to look up for my chute like they train you to do when exiting the plane. As soon as I was out the door my eyes were looking for my chute. At Bragg back in 76 I had a "zero" deployment of the main chute on a low altitude hop and nothing but a lump was on the end of my lines. Immediately I pulled the handle on my reserve. I remember vividly that little pilot chute that deploys to grab air and pull the reserve chute out, it literally popped when it opened. I was falling fast. The reserve streamed out of the pack across my belly, pulled by the pilot chute, and within a few more seconds it popped opened also. I didn't have to grab and throw it like we were trained if it was not coming out quick enough. At that moment I looked down and I was maybe 100 feet from the ground. I only had time to grab lines and tuck before I hit. I impacted on the side of little hill and tried to execute the hit and roll the way we had been trained. I honestly did not feel like the impact was any harder than normal. But the colonel who came running over to me said I had come in really fast but was amazed at how well I had performed the landing. He shouted, "soldier that was a perfect landing". Together we gathered my chutes and examined the lump of my main chute which we found had been tied to prevent it from deploying. Next we checked the packing tag of who had packed my chute and it said Donald Duck had been the packer. I know that they locked down the Packers and went through every parachute that had been packed. I read that they found four more chutes that were tied up. As far as I know they never found the packer who had tried to kill me and four other soldiers unlucky enough to have picked one of his chutes.

Airborne also is a joke today! Saw this tiny little girl at Wal-Mart last week in a man's camo uniform and noticed it had the airborne patch on it. I almost went to her to tell her that she is not a paratrooper just because she was allowed to jump from a plane but I did not want to waste my valuable time.

Trained to not die on a drop? Static Lines can work the "Magic" and reserve is there? Balls save my sorry ass now?

“I don't understand it, so it must be a conspiracy.”

Looks like a classic “Mae West”. Soft landing,thank goodness “

gtfo, all he do was bicycle kick. There was no near death T11 canopy is massive he would have been fine. He also doesn't have combat gear so at worst little soar from a hard landing. This jumper needs some retraining

Why does the Army use the obsolete and dangerous T=10??? I got my wings on April, 1984. I used the T10 3 times and the MC1-B twice. Every jump had lots of injured soldiers but that was all we had. Look up the video titled "Career Ending Jump" on You Tube.

Looked like a shroud line crossed his main canopy, keeping it from fully filling. Once his reserve came out, he was falling at the same rate the others were, one of the things you look for when you jump. I suppose two partially filled chutes are as good as one fully filled.

Here before you get famous :)

I figured you’d post a video of this when I heard where you went.

Bro you're so underrated. Great content, and editing style, so no reason you shouldn't be bigger!

Was this on Saturday, or Sunday of the airshow?

Awesome! Love it!

Artic warfare black hawk ik the tropics wtf

wow some people have a fun life.

Great adventure. I'm in Anchorage now, but grew up in BC. Fwiw, the lake is pronounced Kloo-ON-ee. Gorgeous area. Also, obviously you already know this, but for others watching you can't just cross the border into Canada and declare weapons. You need to have a valid reason to have them (transporting from lower 48 to AK is valid), and they have to be registered ahead of time.

Chocolate Hills, Phillipines?

Incredible landscape!!!

You guys missed me! I fly out of KGTF

What a great adventure! I spend several days a month working in prison so the jokes are appreciated!! LOL

‘Merica! Good video guys. Thanks for another adventure

Too cool. Thanks from a former resident of Fairbanks and Anchorage! You guys are a blast! 😅 But I think that the repeated "prison" references were getting old fast and eroded some of the fun.

y'all having quite the adventure! loving this series. I'd love to do a trip like this when I get more flying experience

What do you do for long trips if of you or someone with you has to use the bathroom? I don’t think you can exactly pull over.

I miss flying in AK .

The cloud bases were 8,255! ( at Watson Creek) Remember METAR numbers are AGL. You have to add 6,000’ to 2,255 (airport elevation. My wife said my previous comment was to wordy

I assume, at some point, you remembered that the ceiling reported ( in this case from METAR) was 5500’ or at one point you said 6,000’…AND that altitude must be added to the the airport elevation (2255’ above MSL) to give the base of the clouds 7,755 to 8,255’. So your plan to “ climb up to 8,500” had little or no chance of working and putting you guys above the cloud layer. Your comment that “ these ceilings are significantly higher than what they were calling… there definitely over 6”, Is telling.

The ghost can as a target is the best part!

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Good call on that Watson Lake RON!

Alaska "you can't shoot the same day you fly because that's cheating!" Texas "Wanna fly around in a helicopter and see how many pigs we can kill?"

I have the same green Alaska hat, my uncle got it for me when he visited his brother in Seward. Still need to get there myself.

I think America should build two giant walls on the north and south border as mega projects just to show that we can do it. not fences but walls so big you can see them from space. Make them both bigger than the great wall of commies.

Im so glad free pilot training pointed me this way, this is now my favorite channel!

Giant jar of gold.... Is it food grade?

I didn't realize this was the same guy that's I've been watching to help me learn the ground course stuff, that's pretty cool. Im so used to the lesson format and not seeing him I wouldn't have known it was the same dude if he didn't tell me lol. I love that he continues to educate while doing this as well, great stuff. My favorite things to watch online are guns, planes and alaska so this is right up my alley.

Nebraska is super windy so is Kansas, I lived in the sand Hills for a decade and I remember it well.

Its allllways busy at paaq. With blue river and fly around theres a TON of students in that aerodome

Good real world stuff. At 400 hrs, instrument rated with a 182, living in Idaho, I have made the decision that when I fly at night I want to be within glide distance to a road. I realized that after flying over mountains in the dark with almost no moonlight and wondering what would I do if I needed to make a forced landing.

The only other way, if not wireless, would be directional drilling lines in. It's become pretty common in the last 5 years for underground services. Got me thinking...

It’s NEVER a kick to the pride to ask for clarification. Also, Interesting about your wind discussion. Pulled up Windy for the region and seems quite common that there’s a HUGE difference between surface winds and altitude.

Bold move flying at night in a remote area that’s unfamiliar to you! Loving the series!

Whoa hey... i've seen this guy before! Can't wait to watch the adventure. Just accidentally stumbled onto it. Your free pilot training was so helpful to me when I was working toward my private cert.

Yes make a video on crossing the border.

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Are those alaskan airports non-towered technically, but have someone providing advisories still? Any general tips on Alaskan flying would be appreciated, need to make a visit

4:16 6:30 that view looks like a sim. 10:40 those snowy mountains are fantastic! I loved those alluvial rivers and seeing the pipeline too. Not sure you'd do it again?