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For what it's worth, every rated parachutist packs their own parachute. For the reserve chute, it's always packed or repacked by an FAA certified rigger, which
by jaggederest 8y ago
For what it's worth, every rated parachutist packs their own parachute. For the reserve chute, it's always packed or repacked by an FAA certified rigger, which is an incredibly high bar by comparison. They must be repacked every 6 months.
The estimate is that on average a parachute will fail one in a thousand times, mostly due to packing error, seldom due to equipment failure. Maybe 90/10 ratio.
For a reserve, the expectation is that they would fail less than one in 10,000 times they are deployed. Which means that, collectively, avoidable errors should only happen one in every million or so rides on a parachute. This is less often than the real observed rate (1 per 75k or so), but errors other than packing or equipment failure are often the root cause.
- theoh 8y agoAccording to Wikipedia, it varies. Some organizations don't require the jumper to pack their own parachute. What does seem to be a common principle is that "All riggers are jumpers and can be asked at any time to jump with a parachute they have packed." or in the US military, that any rigger has packed, without knowing who. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_rigger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_rigger
- jaggederest 8y agoYep. It's not really that you have to pack your own parachute, more that it's cost and convenience to do so, so it's pretty universal as far as I am aware. I'm not certified or anything but I've jumped a few times and that's what the 10k+ jumpers said at the time.