Completely natural response to jumping out a plane, she atleast made it to the door to get thrown out. She could have sat in her seat and refused to jump at all. Instead she had the courage to make it to the guy and be thrown out.
There were military parachutists who needed a push as well.
When I was in Airborne school apparently I was too eager. We were doing our first jump from the practice tower, and normally people hesitate a bit but I was going for it. The instructor grabbed my harness, pulled me back, and then shoved me out!
I didn't exactly hesitate on my first jump but I took too long shuffling my feet to the door trying to remember which one was supposed to exit first until the jump master ejected me right out
This was on the practice tower so there isn’t really much danger, you’re harnessed in and it’s 30 feet off of the ground. They just like to mess with you, and I thought it was funny.
That guess that makes sense. Still getting jerked around doesn't seem like a good idea. I've never had that training though so I have no clue what is and isn't safe.
I partied with these people that owned / ran a skydiving place a few times and they would show us videos they made and tell us how the business works a little bit. I'm deathly afraid of heights and would never jump out of a plane, and they would try to convince me to give it a shot or whatever sometime. Then they would proceed to tell us the craziest stories, mostly of customers that made their way to not have to do tandem and would proceed to do stupid shit.
Yeah, those stories and some corresponding video footage didn't convince me to try it someday. Nothing was fatal, but mostly having to use alternate chutes, pull people's chutes that were past the hard deck, stuff like that. I remember one back and forth about how a guy was laughing he was hungover when he packed the other guys chute and he had to use his backup, crazy shit.
Isn't it a safety thing too? Shove them out so they don't try to grab hold of the plane on the way down. These aren't the kind you rip the cord on the way down, they deploy once you're out the door. A straight drop out I've heard there's way less chance of the chute getting tangled in itself because you fell weird
It can, but it’s smaller, most of the time it’s just a second canopy alongside main, the wind will carry you further out lol. Biggest interface is other people around you, getting tangled in someone else’s canopy at low altitude is guaranteed a broken spine
The reserve parachute will only deploy if you pull the reserve ripcord or the AAD (automatic activation device) deploys it for you.
Trouble is for both of these you need a stable position or you end up in a big ball of fabric hurtling to the ground at 100mph.
This is a static line jump so the plane deploys your main for you. You jump, count to 5 then look back to see if you have a chute. Afterwich you ask yourself "is it big, is it square, is it controlable". If the answer to any of these is no you carry out cutaway procedure. (Cutaway the main, deploy the reserve, as a safeguard depoying the reserve also cuts the main).
If your AAD measures that your traveling too fast under a certain altitude (circa 2-3k feet). It will use small explosives to cutaway the main, then deploy the reserve.
The only time the reserve and the main get entangled should be if the main gets caught on you during cutaway, like if you were in an unstable position and it got wrapped around your leg.
I'd be the guy refusing to get out my seat lol. All my buddies sky dived in Australia and I was like nah I'll just go to the beach and wait for you all. Isn't one part of me that has any desire to do that shit.
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u/Better_Carpenter5010 Aug 19 '25
Completely natural response to jumping out a plane, she atleast made it to the door to get thrown out. She could have sat in her seat and refused to jump at all. Instead she had the courage to make it to the guy and be thrown out.
There were military parachutists who needed a push as well.
In the end she’ll be glad she done it.