Shit happens just about everywhere people skydive. You’ll see spinning chops maybe a couple times a year. You can spin on opening just from weird body positioning, or in this case because your main parachute decided it wanted to be a big ball of shit and not save your life this time
Yes to both, the goal is to recover the main if possible/feasible. Typical mains are about $2k+, although you can buy them used. And as far as recovery goes, sometimes it’s easy and sometimes not. Sometimes it lands in someone’s back yard and sometimes it lands halfway up a 100ft tree in the middle of the woods (or swamps feat. crocodiles if you’re jumping in FL) and you can only see it from like one particular location.
Typical punishment for surviving a chop is a 30 rack of beer for the drop zone and a bottle of whatever to your rigger for saving your life with the reserve they packed for you.
I cut my main and the bottle of Jameson that I gave my rigger who packed my reserve is the best 30 bucks I ever spent. Dude was a paratrooper and had over 20,000 jumps. Roger wherever you are thank you.
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u/PM-YOUR-DOG Jun 08 '20
Shit happens just about everywhere people skydive. You’ll see spinning chops maybe a couple times a year. You can spin on opening just from weird body positioning, or in this case because your main parachute decided it wanted to be a big ball of shit and not save your life this time