Ean

t_andrews wrote Is this taught for the smaller jump canopies? Or are they simply cutaway? Its taught for all skydiving due to the reserve parachute being mounted on the back of the skydiver (above where the main is stored during the skydive). If you were to deploy the reserve without cutting the main parachute away it would deploy straight up into the malfunctioning canopy. Ian

My thoughts on reserves. In my youth i did a lot of skydiving including CRW. Canopy Relative Work where canopies are stacked together and ended up a few times getting into situations where my main parachute had become entangled and have to cut away the main and go onto a reserve parachute. I have seen partially collapsed square parachutes start spinning, the inflated part overtaking the collapsed part. If you deploy a steerable reserve in this situation it can start reacting against the wing and not fly as it should. I would recommend a round reserve so at least you would come down at a safe rate and not under two steerable wings that are flying against each other. I know that skydving canopies and paramotor wings are different but its one to think about.

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