Would you take a slider down/off canopy out of a fixed wing airplane on a 3 second delay ?
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Re: [stitch] Would you take a slider down/off canopy out of a fixed wing airplane on a 3 second delay ?
stitch wrote:
Something tells me this would hurt.
Funny I just new this was coming
I just skimmed the thread, it's open in another window. No, I wouldn't
If the plane is going slow enough I suppose it wouldn't be too bad but chancing it makes little sense. I don't think he actually means don't use a slider though... (then again I just skimmed the thread so probably missed that part)
Anyone know where there's a freefall delay/speed chart? I seem to have lost the one I had.
Re: [stitch] Would you take a slider down/off canopy out of a fixed wing airplane on a 3 second delay ?
vertical and horizontal acceleration decay and accumulate independent of eachother. if the plane is going less than 40 kts, a 3 second delay from the plane will be no different acceleration forces than 3 seconds off a cliff.
Re: [Calvin19] Would you take a slider down/off canopy out of a fixed wing airplane on a 3 second delay ?
I have a little over twenty slider down jumps out of a 182. You want the plane slow and you want to take about 1.5 sec delay. That feels about like a deep three. Good sollid grunt of an opening. Three or four will leave you sore at the end of the day.
Lee
BASE gear from a 182
Lee, I only have 1 slider down out of a 182
and will never do it again, my grunt on
opening turned into sobbing during the
canopy flight, of course I'm a wimp
Re: [GreenMachine] BASE gear from a 182
^^^correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you d-bag it or something? What matt said was something I hadn't thought of. Pitch at that golden moment when forward speed has dissipated but vertical is just getting going... I like it
Re: [thecount] BASE gear from a 182
forward speed will not decrease fast enough for it to matter on a slider down jump. vertical speed when compared to the ground will increase equally from a low speed airplane and a fixed object.
horizontal speed will dissipate slowly, if the plane is going 60kts when you exit, the horizontal speed will decrease only a few knots in the 3 seconds you freefall before you open a slider down packjob.
basically, if your going 60kts vertical and 55 horizontal [55 after the decay from 60kts horizontal exit speed], you actual airspeed (what matters in a parachute opening) will be about 70-75 kts.
Re: [Calvin19] BASE gear from a 182
In reply to:
basically, if your going 60kts vertical and 55 horizontal [55 after the decay from 60kts horizontal exit speed], you actual airspeed (what matters in a parachute opening) will be about 70-75 kts.
Re: [stitch] BASE gear from a 182
stitch wrote:
In reply to:
basically, if your going 60kts vertical and 55 horizontal [55 after the decay from 60kts horizontal exit speed], you actual airspeed (what matters in a parachute opening) will be about 70-75 kts.
yeah, everything should be metric anyway. (i use nautical because airspeed is almost always calculated in nautical, at least for purposes of utility. for design, everything starts metric.)
Re: [thecount] BASE gear from a 182
thecount: didn't you d-bag it or something? The "Something" was a Publix shopping bag.
I cutaway the main and PC on my Mirage and
hooked the base risers to my 3 rings, packed
a Mojo 280 correctly, put it in a Publix shopping
bag, exited a 182 on a slow, low pass with my
back to the wind, removed the bag, and got
to practice flying a huge 7 cell canopy.
This worked great 3 times... then while packing
for the 4th and last hop & pop of the day a few
other skydivers came over and started asking
me what I was doing... during this distraction
I made a HUGE error and forgot to move the
slider to the up position. Ouch!!
Oh, and for the environmentalists out there,
do not worry, I kept the bag and just put it
inside my t-shirt.
I highly recommend this method provided
the jumper is a very experienced skydiver.