I knew the truth...IT WASN'T GOING TO OPEN!!!!!

From: John Brasher
72707.1211@CompuServe.COM

To: GW Galloway gg@precision.net
Subject: Raven Packed / Cypres Equipped

Here I am again, George, a real 2 time WINNER.... Last year you published my account of my first Raven save (thanks for the T-shirt)! This time I was following an AFF student out on his low-level jump (4,000') and watched a nicely stable diving exit and a good deployment after 5-6 seconds. I took it on down a few more seconds and threw my pilot chute out and watched the canopy deploy, well, into a streamer. How come it's always a surprise? It's like your best friend just slapped you in the face and your jaw just kind of hangs there and you've got this "Duhhh" look on your face. Well I watched the damn thing do a couple of rotations to the left and I thought "Well now that's done, now it'll open"...... ....then it did another left rotation and I knew the truth....

IT WASN'T GOING TO OPEN!!!!

So I did what I tell everybody else to do and calmly cutaway and deployed my Raven II from a nice stable body position (unlike a lot of the people you've been featuring lately) and had just the softest opening :-), flew to the target and did a nice tip-toe standup (which I've come to expect from my Raven) and felt pretty good about myself. Thanks again (and I expect I'll eventually thank you again a third time)....I take a medium shirt.

Blue Skies and current again, Raven packed and Cypress equipped

John T. Brasher D-5166 AFF/I '96 S&TA Hemet, CA

PS The student graduated and got to see how my Raven works and is just about ready to order his. You can't beat product demoing equipment before you buy.