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Originally Posted by VaSteve
I assumed the jumpmaster would have held on to him the rest of the way down. I'm not sure why he didn't.
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Originally Posted by VaSteve
When I read the title, I meant I figured the jumpmaster would have wrapped his arms through the guy's straps and created a tandem after the fact and ridding it down together. That's what I was expecting.
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That only works in the movies.
Even if you managed to hang on to him and deploy your canopy, you would have to deal with an unconscious 150+ lb. student that is NOT attached to you via a harness. You would have to hold on to him somehow, while needing both hands to properly fly your canopy, which has now just had it's wing-loading doubled.
Or, if you managed to hang on to his harness and deploy
his chute, then you would be a passenger all the way down, without any control of where you are heading/landing, at the same doubled wing-loading (much faster descent rate and landing speed).
It is much, much safer (for both parties) to simply deploy the student's chute for him, even if he were to never regain consciousness.
