Wingsuit deployment problems
As we can see in the incidents forum, wingsuit deployments can go terribly wrong... About two weeks ago, i had a close call in my V2.
After a long flight, more then a minute, i initiated my deployment quite high.
I think one of my fingers got stuck in the plastic tube handle of my leg mounted 38-pilotchute. I'm not sure about this, everything happened very fast.
So maybe it was just a lazy pull after a long tiring flight.
I realized immediately something is terribly wrong, looked to my right and the pilotchute was snagged somwhere below my rig and flapping.
Maybe on the piece of bridle going from the suit to the rig? I don't know.
But it was there, stuck, not just dancing in the burble behind my back.
So my first thought was, shit, this was it.....
I rolled to the side, reached back again and grabbed "something" and threw again in an attempt to get the canopy out.
It seams i opened the container by hand.... Whitnesses from the ground saw no pilotchute at all. They say the canopy fell a moment besides me with the same speed.
Of course it opened with severeal inetwists.
By the time i kicked the linewists out, the ground was almost there, and luckily no obstacles.
I flared with the risers and did a standup landing, wings and brakes still set.
The pilotchute fell in front of my eyes like a rock from the sky.
We found a knot around the side, the last time i saw a similar picture this was a fatality. It had no drag at all...
What to learn?
-i taped the holes on my plastic tube handle...
-pull higher. two seconds less freefall, a chance to fix a problem.
-never give up.
