On Friday, February 28, 2020 at 10:26:25 AM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
Static line...Â* Don't forget to disconnect it before getting out after a
normal landing... :-D

We have a Master Rigger who comes to Moriarty each spring and gives a
parachute ground school.Â* He gives a lecture first, then hanging harness
training in the hangar, finally everyone gets a chance to learn to
collapse a canopy in high winds (it's Moriart in the spring!).Â* To do
that, the student dons the harness which is tied by a rope to the bumper
of a truck.Â* Then the canopy is released into the wind.

Collapsing a canopy in the wind is trivial if you know the technique.Â*
Simply grab ONE suspension line and start pulling it in towards
yourself.Â* The canopy will collapse very quickly.Â* What's sobering is
when someone forgets that simple trick and is tossed about like a sack
of meat until a helper collapses the canopy for him.Â* Unrestrained and
without help, that person would go on a long and possibly fatal ride.


On 2/28/2020 9:37 AM, wrote:
As someone who spent their youth engaged in the parachute arts I don't think a practice jump is going to help. Tandem ground school and jump experience is useless, accelerated freefall is better but 99% of it is irrelevant. They are training people to be skydivers, not bailout survivors. Find someone that once jumped lots and now flies sailplanes and have them teach you. Or a rigger, they have an idea of what our community needs to know. Which at its simplest is:
Look for the handle, reach for the handle, pull the handle. And as Dave said in the video consider a static line, if you do use a static line have the same mindset - Look, Reach, Pull. Have a goal of being faster than the static line. You won't be, but you'll survive if you forgot to clip it on.