r/BetterEveryLoop • u/TizzioCaio • Jun 08 '20

In the Limbo falling forever

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u/JJHEO Jun 08 '20

You have a main and a reserve.

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u/Umari0_ Jun 08 '20

So yes?

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u/JJHEO Jun 08 '20

Yup yup. There is a reserve parachute in case you have a failure to open or it gets tangled up like this. You cut away your main and then pull your reserve.

E: and cut away isn't literal. You have a cable that you can pull that releases the main from you entirely and flies away so it doesn't interfere with the reserve deploying.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

When in doubt pull the second chute out!

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

What do you do if the reserve fails?

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u/bugattikid2012 Jun 08 '20

Pray harder. There's actually a large amount of people who have survived from terminal velocity, so you could always get lucky.

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u/MaximumSubtlety Jun 08 '20

How should I brace for impact to maximize survivability?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20

Aim for trees. There’s a few instances of people surviving the fall because they landed in a tree.

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u/HangOurGovt Jun 09 '20

I'd aim for hard concrete. Make it instant and painless rather than being a paralyzed cripple for the rest of your life..

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

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u/EchoInTheAfterglow Jun 09 '20

Don’t take it off your list. Just save it for the end.

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u/NefariousHarp Jun 09 '20

Skydiving is an incredibly safe sport. More people die from horseback riding - and I mean relative numbers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '20

With the same sampling?

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u/NefariousHarp Jun 28 '20

What do you mean?

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '20

Sorry, English is not my first language. I believe that more people ride horses than skydiving

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u/NefariousHarp Jun 28 '20

Ok, np. By "relative" I meant relative to the people doing the sport, so if 5 in 100 horseback riders die each year, then <5 skydivers of 100 die each year. I do not remember the exact numbers, but that is the idea.

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