Friday Freakout: Sketchy Parachute Opening, Skydiving Student Forgets Training

Get your TEEM gear here: For licensing/usage please contact licensing@ and reference CS-000084 ___ A freefall-qualified military jumper was transitioning to civilian skydiving through the MFF Transition Program. Having prior training on ripcord-equipped gear, the student forgot his new training (throw and let go of the pilot chute) and reverted to his old training instead (hold on to the ripcord through the deployment process). The outcome was a cutaway and reserve deployment while still holding the ripc-, err, pilot chute in his hand.