11.12.2007, 15:47
Dont worry about crappy,
The chutes I used (exit 1100 feet) werent much different from WW2 chutes. Wanna steer clear of a tree? Hang on your risers! No fancy civil Squares, emergency chute had to be opened by pulling cord and then throwing the reserve away from you, WITH the wind. Unfortunately, a bloke in the stick next to me had bad chute (line-over: one of his lines came over the outside of his canopy, so his chute looked like a bleeding bra.) He used his spare by hand but mistakenly threw the package INTO the wind: it fluttered, smacked back in his face and was cought between the other lines....Well from 1100 feet the trip is at least short. He was badly injured and damn "lucky" to recover to walk again. After shouting on the tops of my lungs "Reserve !!Reserve!! I was happy that I just had qualified for them bleeding insigna, pffff....
hock:
Sorry, got carried away a bit. Anyway I think the IL-2 Bailout is quite simpel and only related to a certain altitude, not hor or vert speed. I can live with it, but would prefer a somewhat lower level to be survivable. I remember a passage from "The First Team" USN Combat history by John B. Lundstrom in which one of the Navy guys has to bail out of his F4F below 500 feet and remembers during the drop his instructor: "NEVER bail out below 500 feet", his chute opens, and in the first dangle he hits the water.. (unharmed)
Cheers, Zol.
The chutes I used (exit 1100 feet) werent much different from WW2 chutes. Wanna steer clear of a tree? Hang on your risers! No fancy civil Squares, emergency chute had to be opened by pulling cord and then throwing the reserve away from you, WITH the wind. Unfortunately, a bloke in the stick next to me had bad chute (line-over: one of his lines came over the outside of his canopy, so his chute looked like a bleeding bra.) He used his spare by hand but mistakenly threw the package INTO the wind: it fluttered, smacked back in his face and was cought between the other lines....Well from 1100 feet the trip is at least short. He was badly injured and damn "lucky" to recover to walk again. After shouting on the tops of my lungs "Reserve !!Reserve!! I was happy that I just had qualified for them bleeding insigna, pffff....
hock: Sorry, got carried away a bit. Anyway I think the IL-2 Bailout is quite simpel and only related to a certain altitude, not hor or vert speed. I can live with it, but would prefer a somewhat lower level to be survivable. I remember a passage from "The First Team" USN Combat history by John B. Lundstrom in which one of the Navy guys has to bail out of his F4F below 500 feet and remembers during the drop his instructor: "NEVER bail out below 500 feet", his chute opens, and in the first dangle he hits the water.. (unharmed)
Cheers, Zol.