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Has anyone tried doing a BASE Jump using a standard skydiving reservein a skydiving container?

BASE #14's first BASE jump in 1981 was made from 800' up an antenna with a hand-deploy pilot chute attached to the apex of a round reserve with the canopy packed in the main tray and the lines in the reserve tray.

Not recommended!

 
Have a look at the BASE fatalities list: http://hometown.aol.com/...e/base_fatality_list afaik many deaths and serious injuries have been caused by using modified skydiving gear as opposed to BASE specific gear. Not a good idea...

To everything its place. At the right site, I still maintain you can use regular skydiving gear with perhaps a big pilot chute, slider up or down depending on altitude. People did this for the first 10-15 years of BASE jumping. And that's with a main canopy, not a reserve....

That said, it is not suitable for a lot of BASE sites, either.

As the doc says, the people attempting these stunts are experts (and perhaps not very bright!) DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

It happened just recently out here in cali, I told this guy I would repack it again for free if he did it........

I guess you have never been to Bridge Day...

You haven't seen the ABA videos, have you?

It's happened a lot, mostly a long time ago, but occasionally it still happens for whatever reason. You won't catch me doing it, though. Them fancy reserve thingy's can't be trusted, I tell you.