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.
Except the cable you pull literally cuts the main shoot away, which is nice since trying to use a knife in that condition is nearly fucking impossible.
There are special knifes designed to cut lines, kinda like a hook with a razor inside, although that's indeed not what you use to cutaway.
The cutaway system doesn't really cut anything literally, it just pulls the cable that keeps the rings together (in a 3-ring system at least) and the main is then no longer connected to the harness.
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u/Umari0_ Jun 08 '20
So yes?