emergency chute

Don: Don't confuse "square" with "sport". Emergency/reserve "square"
parachutes are designed very differently than their main/sport
counterparts. Also, skydivers use a reserve for two reasons: (1)
main/sport parachutes are designed with flight performance as a major
design criteria; they are very reliable but not as reliable as
reserve/emergency chutes. (2) The FAA prohibits intentional parachute
jumps without a reserve. (3) It would be really dumb anyway

2NO

Aren't most BASE jumps done without a reserve? Do BASE jumpers prefer
the reserve square or the sport chute (since control into tight LZs is
a consideration)?

Just trying to get educated since we appear to have a group of folks
with useful information.

Aren't most BASE jumps done without a reserve?

Yes. This may be changing - I no longer actively BASE jump so I have
not kept up.

Do BASE jumpers prefer
the reserve square or the sport chute (since control into tight LZs
is
a consideration)?

BASE jumpers prefer a parachute designed for BASE. Before these were
available, most BASE jumpers used parachutes normally used as reserves
(the Raven series were quite popular). Some still use them. None used
anything even vaguely similar to the modern sport main canopy.

Michael

BASE (Building, Antenna, Span, and Earth) jumps are done without a reserve
because they would be useless. (Main didn't open? Prepare to die, or get
seriously b0rke.) BASE jumpers prefer reserve/emergency chutes for obvious
reasons: they don't want to die.

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Aren't most BASE jumps done without a reserve? Do BASE jumpers prefer
the reserve square or the sport chute (since control into tight LZs is
a consideration)?

Just trying to get educated since we appear to have a group of folks
with useful information.