We're live, how's it going sosh med people and today we're going to be doing how to give your buddy a gear check
Sounds like a plan
So Snelly is going to start obviously by showing us what we want to check
before we even get the rig on our shoulders, so come on in here
Come on down, come on down
Can you see from there? Don't be shy
All right so when we're going to check over our rig before we put it on
we're going to want to make sure that everything is where it should be
and it's going to be safe to jump. So I'm going to quickly look over my rig
Make sure my pilot shoots seated nicely in the pocket
Make sure my tuck tabs in
I'm going to check my main pin make sure it's pushed in all the way
checking my little window, make sure that my pilot chute is cocked
That's all good
Then I'm going to have a quick look under my reserve flap make sure my reserve pin's
sitting in a good place, everything is where it wants to be
Checking my Collins lanyard here on this rig
and then I'm also checking to make sure my AAD is on
See there, pro that's me
So now that's good I'm gonna check on the front side
I'm gonna check, make sure my RSL is connected how I want it to be
it's not misrouted anywhere and check my three rings make sure that they are hooked up correctly
Which they look like they are
Beautiful
Come down I'm gonna check, make sure my handles are seated nicely
Got my hook knife
Everything looks pretty well put together
I'm gonna go ahead and put that on
Right Terry, I mean Chris here he's gonna go chuck that on
and then we're going to give him a gear check
I guess a good point there is like
it's pretty in-depth that but there's a few key things that we want to really make sure we cover
which we're going to get into now once he's all good to go
Good looking rig as well eh, not bad
might have to keep talking there Stewy
He's still going right
Still going still going
and then after we do this Snelly's going to give me
a gear check as well
So he's looking like he's getting pretty close there
Yes sir
Now we're just watching Snelly stuff his leg straps in there, it's exciting times
How about them cougars? Yeah not bad
Cool
So
I think he's good to go
So a couple, obviously we'll go through a couple of obvious things
you're going to make sure you want to have your altimeter and your helmet
if you're jumping an open face you're going be wanting your goggles
It's easy to run off to the plane without these
and in some countries, obviously the alti you definitely want, the helmet you can't jump without it
So Snelly's just got his gear on and he's come to me for a gear check
I don't know why I'm not qualified
I'd usually send him to Hayden at the school
Right so we're gonna start at the top and just work our way down
So he has an RSL and as he's already checked we're gonna make sure that's good
We're gonna look at his three rings
but the key one's really, is we want to make sure his chest straps done up nice and properly
his handles are secure and his leg straps look good
then we're going to get him to turn around
I'm going to start at the bottom again
We're going to check to make sure that pilot chute's nicely stowed away
We don't want that coming loose at all while we're in the plane or worse getting out of the plane
Then we're going to open the main flap here check it
see that that pin's nice and all the way in and nice and secure
and that he's cocked his pilot chute
I'm going to go ahead and close that for him
Good thing to remember is whenever we check something, we want to make sure we put it back correctly
So we're not going to leave that out like that because that's issues as well
Then we're going to move our way up and we're going to
check his AAD and his reserve pin
Now in some places or some people might just like to verbally confirm that
so you could ask is your AAD on
and at the very least we're getting a confirmation from him
so we've checked that, it's looking good everything's routed correctly
as he's already checked and his reserve pin is looking good
If you do open the reserve flap
especially on the vectors it does sit very tight, you want to make sure you get that back correctly
and we want to make sure we tuck that in
and he's ready to go I would yeah
I would happily let Snelly go to the plane and he's safe to be around for the most part
All right well if I'm ready to go
It's my turn
Better check you out
Here we go, I'm the special testie
All righty starting from the top there
Okay here we go
So three rings they're looking pretty good but uh
The RSL's hanging out there buddy
that's by choice, yeah we don't, nah that's not good
I don't know if I agree with that one
Oh dear
Yeah because I have usually have a belly band so it's easy to undo it
Oh yeah right yeah swoopers choice is it
Yeah swoopers choice
all right well...
What happens here
swoopers choice to just disconnect it?
that's going to make cutting away a lot easier you know
I don't know that I agree with that either
All right well actually your leg straps look pretty good
Turn around for me
is your AAD on?
I think so
I think you're lying, that is not on
check it out
It's gonna take a couple of minutes I need to get on the plane now
got to warm it up. Well that's not going to happen
Well luckily your reserve pin looks good
It's in the right place so that's good
Like we said before the Vector's flaps can be quite tight and hard to do
Anyway
So we're gonna check down here
Pin looks good, pilot chute's cocked
but what on earth is going on here?
Bridle's hanging out, pilot chute's hanging out
You're a hot mess Stewy
I don't think it's going to happen mate
Yeah that's debatable
Take that gear off and get it sorted
Yeah so obviously I have a lot of problems, what we'd do now is if you had this many problems
you're going to take your rig off, you're going to reanalyze whether you should be a skydiver or not
which I would highly recommend and we're going to correct everything before we go to the plane
also I don't have an alti and my helmet's over there, which I would have grabbed
but it's just things you want to get through your routines, your processes and make sure you remember everything
I guess a key thing to say is we are experienced but you don't need to be experienced to do these checks
and to pick these things up
if you are someone with less jumps
I know from experience it is hard to approach someone with a lot of jumps
especially for something as simple as a chest strap miss-routed
Don't feel bad bringing it up
you could be saving your life, their life and other people on the plane yeah with these mistakes
Complacency is not a good thing so you're never too experienced to get a gear check or give someone a gear check
Exactly there we go
Cool well thank you very much guys for joining and that is it
I'm probably going to be grounded for a while now with some of those mistakes
Good job is raining
Yeah yeah, it's always raining right now
Anyway thank you for joining us and we will see you next time
Cheers