I had a guy with 50 jumps request to do a 3-way jump this weekend. He was incredibly stressful, jittery and all over the place.
In the plane, no gearcheck - but he did take a stack of selfies. About 10 seconds into the jump, his helmet flew up - it hadn't been attached. Instead of breaking away and pulling, he deathgripped me and tried to reseat his helmet over and over.
We broke off and tracked away from the guy - when he deployed - he'd obviously been unstable - and had about 15 line twists, which he proceeded to slowly undo - while drifting up the jump run, before finally getting a flying canopy well below the hard-deck.
I tried to be as kind as possible to the guy, suggesting less selfies, more gear-checks and revisit some of the basics, but he just shrugged it off.
There were also 2 coaches in the plane that said nothing about the phone on the run up - wtf.
In the plane, no gearcheck - but he did take a stack of selfies. About 10 seconds into the jump, his helmet flew up - it hadn't been attached. Instead of breaking away and pulling, he deathgripped me and tried to reseat his helmet over and over.
We broke off and tracked away from the guy - when he deployed - he'd obviously been unstable - and had about 15 line twists, which he proceeded to slowly undo - while drifting up the jump run, before finally getting a flying canopy well below the hard-deck.
I tried to be as kind as possible to the guy, suggesting less selfies, more gear-checks and revisit some of the basics, but he just shrugged it off.
There were also 2 coaches in the plane that said nothing about the phone on the run up - wtf.