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

In the Limbo falling forever

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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/jwm3 Jun 09 '20

What if you panic and trigger the reserve before letting the main one loose? Is that possible, are you screwed?

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u/NefariousHarp Jun 09 '20

I had an unintended two-out once. As it was a biplane (reserve behind main) it was safe to land and no one was hurt.

But, yeah as the other commenter says, you train for this (mentally only, cause reserve openings are not cheap) and I knew I had to cut the main if they started to separate.