Rigger who will pack a 20 year old chute?

I was scared absolutely ****less on every flight, watching the
altimeter, knowing I'd have to jump.Â* Then, once outside and hanging off
the wing strut, all fear was gone.Â* The cool breeze in my face at
10,000' MSL made me impatient for the instructor's command, "Arch and
go!".Â* After that it was pure heaven maneuvering the canopy, entering
downwind, base, and final to the touchdown circle.

The injured pilot I mentioned earlier was an experienced
paratrooper/jump master with many jumps to his credit.Â* The winds were
high and terrain was rough.

On 6/2/2018 12:28 PM, Charlie M. (UH & 002 owner/pilot) wrote:
Agreed on training. Learning on you way out the first time likely leads to broken body bits.
At a minimum, call a local jump school, maybe a bunch of local glider pilots can go through basic training without an actual jump (I have issues with height and leaving a perfectly good aircraft.....;-)).
This can be done for pretty cheap and at least you have a marginal clue.

Who knows, maybe you will do an actual jump?!?!
Better may be do an actual jump in your own chute YMMV.....

Reminds me of a known glider pilot at a contest. There was a midair within site of the home field. He was a sport jumper, bailed and sorta thought, "if I'm jumping, may as well as make it fun.....".
Did a delayed opening.
Last anyone on the field saw, he was freefalling.........argghhhhhh.
He was fine, call to glider insurance......

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Dan, 5J

A wasting asset is one with a limited life, at the end of which it has no value or utility. For most assets, their depreciable lives--i.e., the interval over which the tax authorities allow expensing the acquisition cost--bear only a tenuous relationship to the actual service lives. So a car can be depreciated over 3 to 5 years, an aircraft over 5 to 7 years, and residential property over 5, 7, 15 or 27.5 years, or whatever the current regs say. Does anyone really think any of those assets are worthless and unserviceable at the end of their depreciable lives? Properly maintained, they can be used for many more years. But not a parachute with a 20 year life.

Hey,Jonathan, how about paying me $1,000 not to respond to your posts? That's less than $50 a year over my projected lifespan. What a deal! It's your quality of life, after all.

Seriously, I hate to pick on you but you lose me with arguments that default to safety as an absolute, rather than relative measure, or that cheerfully argue I should spend five thousand bucks because amortized over 50 years, it's less than my electric bill or a couple of tanks of gasoline or whatever.

Chip Bearden

Hey, if you are a bit short contact me off line, always willing to help out a fellow glider pilot.
And I thought you were using term of frustration, not a term of art. I am familiar with accounting principles.

Jon


On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 2:09:23 PM UTC-7, wrote:
A wasting asset is one with a limited life, at the end of which it has no value or utility. For most assets, their depreciable lives--i.e., the interval over which the tax authorities allow expensing the acquisition cost--bear only a tenuous relationship to the actual service lives. So a car can be depreciated over 3 to 5 years, an aircraft over 5 to 7 years, and residential property over 5, 7, 15 or 27.5 years, or whatever the current regs say.. Does anyone really think any of those assets are worthless and unserviceable at the end of their depreciable lives? Properly maintained, they can be used for many more years. But not a parachute with a 20 year life.

Hey,Jonathan, how about paying me $1,000 not to respond to your posts? That's less than $50 a year over my projected lifespan. What a deal! It's your quality of life, after all.

Chip Bearden