Scottish Elises

For Scotty and a few others who might be interested, some pics from my 4 way team training camp in Seville last week. 1050 jumps between 5 teams, 3 malfunctions with reserve rides (not on my team fortunately), 1 premature main parachute deployment at 15,000 ft (my team mate and my fault!), several 'out' landings amongst the olive groves, no serious injuries and a heap of fun. It was quite a week.

The dream team:




Looking out the door at 15k. Notice how small the runway looks!


A good linked exit just after leaving the plane:


Cranking out the formations above the clouds:


Breaking off at 4k - the runway has got bigger

What happens with a deployment at 15k'??

long wait to get down or more potenetial issues such as hypoxia etc?

My team mate James had the presence of mind to spiral the canopy to loose height quickly, otherwise hypoxia would indeed be a risk. Fortunately the upper winds weren't strong otherwise he could have ended up miles from the DZ. It was a bit a of a serious screw up, but we were all able to laugh about it in the bar afterwards