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This morning's topic was "chute failure" and how
I split this off and am replying to part of Nicks post, so I hope he reads this and replies if he wishes.

Nick wrote:

This is not the first time I have run into the idea that using the term "chute" is a bad thing. However, I think I started skydiving around the same time as you Nick [Though it was much later than you when I finally found my BASE guts]. I remember we always used the term chute when talking about our rigs. Where I started jumping, it was a often used expression. Maybe it was not used where you started jumping?

Anyway, I was just wondering who else finds the use of this term nerve grating?

I still use it at times, and am still surprised when it causes a negative reaction.

Just passing time until The Man Show comes on :)

later,
t

Granted, it's a small thing, but to my ears "chute" sounds whuffo-ish . . .

NickD
BASE 194

In my short time in the sport i've found "chute" is usually preceeded by what if the.......and followed by .....doesn't open?
~J

I like the word "chute". There are few words that geordies and yanks can pronounce in a similar fashion and leave aussies feeling left out because the word just bounces around their mouths without really ever coming fully out (they make it sound more like shuyt which is what an Irishman calls a turd).

I hate the word "canopy". Sounds too much like something a french tart eats before dinner.

My term of choice is schwack sack.

feel free to call me a wuffo

i call it a chute,sheap or what ever,but usaly dont call it parachute

should a PC be called a PPC
pilot parachute ?
or is it not a type of parachute ?

Why is it called a "pilot" chute anyway? Like a pilot hole when you're drilling a bigger hole? Always wondered about that.

Seems every "chute" a pilot wears would be a pilot chute.

Or maybe it's a joke. Since pilot rigs are generally rounds, you toss the little, round, silly, "pilot chute" to make the real parachute come out.

But then if you look deeper, you'll notice that back when men were steel and parachutes were round, it took more balls to land on of those suckers. Now we have the soft landing squares where you don't need to pound in at all. Maybe the rounds are the real parachutes.... maybe the joke is on us?

Hello,
In this circle of friends,
we usually call it a canopy.
In another of my circle of friends,
we tend to get annoyed at the phrase "tattoo GUN".
Avery

One of the definitions of "pilot" is:

The part of a tool, device, or machine that leads or guides the whole.

rl

 

damage? do tell... also is there video?

 

what, did the camera have so much drag on it that it was drug uphill too?

I found this over in the Bonfire. Someone is using it as a sig:

I am still old, broke, in debt, homeless, unemployed and crippled but my chutes are packed and my reserve is in date so I figure that I am way ahead of the game. -- Bob Sinclair

Emphasis supplied.

IIRC, Bob is D-272.

somone found it over here and put it in my sig

There is a town called Parachute, Colorado. Anyone know of any towns named Chute?

(1010 is not a base #)

Parachute comes from French:

"chute" means a fall
"para-" means to shield

parachute = shield from falling
parapluie = shield from rain ("pluie" = rain)
parasol = shield from sun ("sol" = sun)
parapente = paraglider = shield from slope?? ("pente" = slope, hill)

 

paracornishe