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Originally Posted by Downtime
no, but I want to soon. dont you have to do an assisted jump your first time, or can you do it solo?
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you take a class, and jump solo with a static line in the USA, or in Canada with what they call an intructor assisted deployment. What that means, is when you're in the door of the plane about to jump, your instructor has your pilot chute in his hand, and tosses it out of the plane when you jump. you have to reach about 70mph before the pilot chute makes enough drag to deploy your main chute. Takes about 5 seconds, but it sure seems like alot longer. Then you may have twisted lines and other problems. From what I've heard, static line is way better than how i did it in Canada.