"...let's find out if these Raven Reserves are really as good as they say..."

Dear George,

Finally I have my own Raven save story! It was a normal day at the DZ when two friends and I went out to do some CRW. After a rather uneventful jump with a little bit of docking practice, one of my friends and I flew a nice stairstep. That is, it was nice, until we got top docked, also in a stairstep. The resulting turn spun me around and I was hanging with some line twists and a really ugly looking right side of my canopy [distorted by] my friends foot.

My immediate thought was, I have to cut this one away, even if my friend could clear his foot out of my main, but I wanted to give him some time. So we had this interesting conversation - "Stefan, you have to get your foot out of my main!"  He replied "I can't get my foot out of your main!" - while we were spiralling down from 3000 to about 2000ft.

At that time I figured, let's find out if these Raven Reserves are really as good as they say they are. I cut away, pulled the silver handle and was absolutely surprised, how nice and fast my reserve opened. It must have been quite a sight from above (which according to my friend it was).

The end of the story is a nice standup landing next to my main, the freebag and my buddies in the middle of a cow field. Thanks a lot for building such a nice reserve canopy!

Yours,

Lutz Andersohn <lutza@topometrix.com>

The friends involved were:
Stefan Kaemmer <stefank@topometrix.com>
Marty Martinez <heavyair@aol.com>