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Skydivers been using automatic safety openers for a very long time (the 80's at least). We basically install them on our reserve chute so if we pass below openi
by clueless123 14y ago
Skydivers been using automatic safety openers for a very long time (the 80's at least). We basically install them on our reserve chute so if we pass below opening altitude at a fast rate of descent it automatically trigger the emergency chute.
It's saved many, many lives that I can personally recall.
- hnriot 14y agoSince when did the 80's become 'a very long time' - I went to school in the eighties and it doesn't seem that long ago to me.
- base698 14y agoSimilar to how in computing the 80s is like a millennia ago, skydiving has changed dramatically since the 80s in regards to both equipment and the skills on which skydivers concentrate. You never see round parachutes, rigs without reliable Automatic Openers on the reserve, dacron (a material used for lines). The parachutes are half the size or less for average jumpers. As for behavior, people intentionally increase their speeds on landing for more fun, wingsuiting is fairly common, and there are sub-disciplines of freefall were people spend the entire portion of the skydive upside down.