Friday Freakout: Low Wingsuit Cutaway, No AAD, Open By 500ft
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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While wingsuits are all the rage these days, it's often overlooked that -- should a series of events go wrong -- you're now falling toward the earth in a straitjacket. No matter how you slice it, a low deployment followed by a malfunction (without an RSL or AAD), several revolutions on your back, a head-down reserve deployment, and a popped toggle once your reserve is open by 500 feet is, well, exciting to say the least. Be easy on this guy, he was kind enough to let us use this video to educate the masses.
Big time props to this person for staying calm and solving one bad problem after another. But the layers of really bad judgement that got him there in the first place is just unbelievable. Time to sit down with an instructor and rethink his entire approach to the sport? (I hear bowling is nice.) Much to be learned here, thanks for posting!
One of the arguments for having an RSL or a MARD device is that in malfunctions that cause spinning, even if you drilled to perfect youre emergency procedures, the handles often relocate them selves. Therefore looking for the reserve and actually pulling it will burn precious time. if you atleast get to the cutaway handle, you can save a lot of time when the RSL/MARD kicks in (given the right deployment conditions).
Lucky, lucky, lucky. Any time you dump the reserve while in a spin and nearly inverted...you run the real risk of finding yourself walking towards the light. HAHA
So many hobbies out there!
Chess, card collection, static modeling.
WHY!!!!
less money on a damn nice wing suit and more on an audible, and AAD. Id a shit a brick
Storm 170 is an excellent canopy for wingsuit flying.
I have put an old B.A.S.E. Mojo 240 canopy in a big student container, and can tell you that opening are perfect ... you just have to change the slider for a full one (not BASE ...)
you can avoid a POD and pack it directly in the bag (to lower chances of lines twists), but this is not so easy in a skydive rig ...
Thanks for posting
Too bad comment are not embedded longer in the vid : we have to pause to read the full sentence …
glad you came out unscathed …
This is the scariest cutaway I've seen in my life!
The scariest cut away is the one you have yourself.
As a student you would have been under a large docile canopy, so line twists are easy to deal with. Under smaller canopies you can lose altitude really fast under line twists and chopping it may be the best option.
Glad you're ok
The part that bothered me the most was that he stopped flying his wingsuit as soon as the canopy deployed. I've had some pretty bad line twists and they come out almost as quickly as they spin up when you use the aerodynamics of your wingsuit to your advantage.
Yeah, well, he was also waving off with his hands. Clearly a new bird.
I stopped jumping prior to the increased popularity of wing suits used for every day jumping, and I am a little glad I did because I definitely would have bought one and run into issues like this. Yikes, too much to deal with when you have a malfunction.
im glad you are ok man
glad the jumper was able to function and lived through it! honest question here though - couldn't he have untangled the main from that kind of a tangle without cutting away? on my first solo jump (with instructors by my side), my chute tangled like his, but the instructor had taught that you can untangle those by pulling the harness apart, and i did and it worked. i guess maybe he could've, but he was already pretty low?
I agree with no RSL but there are a thousand reasons to have an AAD and very few not to have one.
Nice video glad you are ok. Lots of guys don't need RSL's, you know.
Yeah right.
Crazy!!
Scary stuff glad he made it! Good job. What was the main riser snagged on?
Great work on walking away from that, sky hook would seem to have worked best in case those reserve lines came out tangled on that , regardless great stuff man!!
well played bro.. good thing you didnt have a base rig. lol.
Good pilot!
Nice. My friend's first jump was a cutaway.
storms weathered-beverages deployed.
Holy shit!
I hope I can always stay that cool with a malfunction.
Forget the RSL epically with a high performance main, you need an audible, and deploy higher when trying anything new like a wingsuit or canopy.
www.dropzone.com/safety/Gear_and_Equipment/Top_5_RSL_myths_18.html
But yeah, an audible, better altitude awareness, and higher opening when trying new things is also important.
I will never understand the reason for using a type of parachute that malfunctions so often. When I got into the sport we were trying to design parachutes that worked. These little hankerchiefs seem proned to line twists that can not be kicked out of. Stupid if you ask me.
holy shit that was close
my brrowwws told me RSLs will like a tangle you all up if your a high performance braaa
I've never seen a brake fire on a reserve before.
Wow, everything went wrong... that was far too close.
Wow!
And he never jumped again...
Do you need to unzip your arms on a wingsuit before cutting away? Looks like a lot of time was wasted needlessly because he unzipped his arms first.
whoa mama
Ah I see the problem... he is flying a Wings container :P
What's your problem with a Wings container? That it's not American by origin?
Im kidding their fine! Its the whole Ford v. Chevy Toyota v. Honda war that we always rag on eachother for. but in the end the only one we really hate is Kia haha
I'll tell you the problem with a Wings container. Aren't they made by KMart? HAHA
Antti79
It's not an Infinity :P
Quick question, when you fly a wingsuit do you have to unzip it before a cutaway?
No, I don't believe you have to unzip your arm zippers before cutting away. It would take too long and you would lose too much altitude while unzipping your arms.
hea naw!
Depends on the wingsuit. Less advanced suits you can usually use your handles without unzipping quite easily. Also, wingsuits can have wing cutaways in case the zippers get stuck.
Skip all answers above. Flying ANY WINGSUIT (ANY!!!) you DO NOT need to open any zipper to cutway. That guys messed up big time or at least his instructors.
From that experience what would you do differently? If anything.
Pretty much everything he did should be done differently lol. 1. Should have flown his opening. 2. Should have been a skydiver and cut away at the first sign of linetwists downplaining 3. And this seems to be the obvious one NOT try to unzip his wing while loosing precious gravitaah
Caleb Countess He was unzipping because he couldn't find/reach his main cutaway pillow. While you are right, it is also understandable why he did it
По лезвию бритвы!!!
*нихрена не понял, но очень интересно (с) ...*
@@steffansteffan2972 поясню - у человека не было страхующего устройства, и транзита. Более того, человек потерял высоту, и низко раскры, парашют отказал, было очень мало времени на устранение отказа и отцепку, короче парень везунчик
besides the stuff here, WHY? so many chest strap fails? (researching, beginner)...
I can see he is very experienced, you did everything in hands to safe his life except for the "Low Opening" which was a stupid move.
could have been a lawndart in someone's back yard.
Why would you not have a RSL? experienced jumper explain?
In some situations it could be dangerous, like if you have really small canopy and you are in a hard spin, rsl could make something entangle (instant reserve deployment while in spin). But I'm not an experienced jumper so.....
See *****? See what I'm talking about re: MichaelMegaChannel12
only real reason I can think of is for CREW (canopy relative work) . If you end up in a wrap you want absolute control of all variables in cutting away. Other than that , I dont see see why not, but there are people who feel very strongly that they dont want to have one......usually along the lines of wanting to be stable after cutaway or just being in control.
www.dropzone.com/safety/Gear_and_Equipment/Top_5_RSL_myths_18.html
MichaelMegaChannel12 If your currently jumping sit down with someone who is well regarded at the DZ (not a 200 jump show poney) and discuss this. Spinning is not an issue. The moment you cut away you leave on a tangent to the spin. The relative wind will be coming up your body feet to head, ideal.
So no RSL and no AAD, worldstar mate, worldstar douche. Glad you're okay.
Well that was self-inflicted...considering doing a refresher of the basics eg. Look Locate Pull, no need to undo arms of suit if you are current with reserve procedures. Poor body position caused most of those problems. Gear had nothing to do with any of that, you nearly killed yourself well done.
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He doesn't know how to fly a wingsuit, he use a gro pro, pull at 2500 ft, Cutaway procedures totally wrong, no RSL, no AAD... What could possibly go wrong?
why dont use aad?
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wow. lucky guy, a lot of bad moves. hopefully others learn!
sorry but 0:26 is not landable.. id of chopped then...no sense fighting.....
Kopihucky He tried - the annotations in the video say he couldn't find the cut-away with his right hand.
Ah. Thanks for clearing it up.
lucky
Wtf... to all new flyers, get a coach. These type of reactions and gear usage are unacceptable and clearly displaye a lack of professional guidance.
I hate RSL!
www.dropzone.com/safety/Gear_and_Equipment/Top_5_RSL_myths_18.html
Thnx. Still I disliked my main opened while I was in rotation with my backs facing ground, I had "nice" line twists cos of that on my reserve.
What do you think about that?
Linus Magnus I think it's fine. Your pull priorities are: 1) pull, 2) pull at the right altitude, 3) pull stable. The stable part is the least important priority. You are burning altitude while you wait to get stable.
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I agree. Its just that memory of my reserve nasty line twist is scary :)
It was my first reserve.
And yes my idea was to get stable and then deploy reserve.
Thnx for comment.
Linus Magnus Glad you're still with us. Blue skies :)
Next time save your pads...