Parapente, Skydiving, e Line Power walla Leɗɗe Canopy Jippagol Hisnude¶

Pilotooɓe asamaan, piloteeɓe parapente, gollotooɓe e paramotoruuji, piloteeɓe hang-glider, e diwooɓe BASE ina keɓa sahaa e sahaa fof mbayliigaaji henndu, ɓuuɓol nguleeki, ɓuuɓol parachute rezerw, walla ŋakkeende moteriiji doole jippagol e nder ladde e nder laabi kuuraa ɓurɗi toowde, no tall for dow cuuɗi. So tawii noon ɓuuɓol naylon ram-air ngol e hoore mum ina heewi soomde ɓuuɓol adanngol ngol, hojomaaji seeɗa caggal jippagol e nder weeyo ina keewi ɓurde bonde e batte jippagol ngol e hoore mum.

Jumper walla pilot ina fawii e dow parachute walla paraglider harness e nder laabi doole guurɗe ina wondi e baasal mawngal e jolngo elektoronik so tawii canopy maɓɓe ina jokki e jolngo fasaaji ɗiɗi, so tawii ɓe njuɓɓinii feewde e jolngo utility leydi, walla so tawii yiyooɓe moƴƴuɓe ina njaha e dow leydi ina memi laabi maɓɓe. Ko noon kadi janfa woni jippagol lekki toowki: ujunnaaje ujunnaaje piloteeɓe e diwooɓe asamaan nguurii e ŋoral ɓuuɓngal 20 meeter (65 feet) dow e nder lekki pine walla leɗɗe tiiɗɗe tawa alaa ko ŋakkiraa, tan haa ɓe njippii e maayde maɓɓe hojomaaji 10 caggal ɗuum sabu ɓe unbuckled strap maɓɓe le.g clicke3d release handles nde eto-ɗaa ƴeeŋtude les e caɗeele leɗɗe yaajɗe ɓutte, ɓutte. Yanti heen, diwoowo dartinaa e dow ŋoral koyɗe ko ɓuri hojomaaji 15 haa 30 ina waawi dañde caɗeele orthostatic suspension syndrome (syndrome de suspension harness) no ƴiiƴam ɓuuɓɗam e nder koyɗe mum en ɓuuɓɗe nii, tawi noon diwoowo jippii e ndiyam les ɓuuɓol ɓuuɓngol ina waawi ŋoŋɗude e nder sekonndeeji, Vectran, walla laabi gonɗi e Kevlar. Anndude no njiyru-ɗaa jippagol caɗeele, hol ko waɗi aɗa fotaani taƴde walla ɓuuɓnude e lekki walla e dow laana ndiwoowa, e no njiyru-ɗaa jippagol ndiyam ina hisna nguurndam.

Waɗde ɗum jooni¶

1. WOTO MEƊƊI ɓuuɓnude jokkere koyɗe harness maa walla huutoraade junngo maa cutaway canopy release nde fawii e lekki walla fawaade e laabi doole. So canopy maa naylon dartii fadde e lekki, canopy e laabi fawaade e ina keewi snagged tan ko seeɗa e dow weight maa yaajde ko holding; ustude teddeendi maa ngam ustude walla taƴde parachute maa mawɗo maa jippo e leydi.
2. Freeze haa timma haa jooni e jogaade denndaangal yiyooɓe ko famɗi fof 15 haa 30 meeteer (50 haa 100 feet) woɗɗitaade so a jippiima e nder walla saraaji laabi kuuraa dow. Hay so laabi maa sintetik suspension ina nanndi e yoori e a nanaani jolngo adanngo nde canopy maa rewireing dow woochi touchi a wire ɗiɗaɓo, walla steel utility pole, walla accude neɗɗo e leydi ina mema koyɗe maa ŋoŋɗi walla junngo rezerw maa timmin cirkowol toowngol maayngol feewde e leydi ; larugo laabi kuuraa njippinaaɗi e kuuraa otooji.
3. Noddu limoore emergency nokku maa (911 e nder leyɗeele dentuɗe Amerik e Kanadaa, 112 e nder Dental Orop, 999 e nder Dental Dowlaaji Amerik) ɗoon e ɗoon. So tawii laabi kuuraa ina heen, rokku neldoowo oo coordinateeji GPS laaɓtuɗi walla limoore pole ngam sosiyatee kuutortooɗo kuuraa oo waawa de-energize lares e grounding kala circuit; so tawii ko e lekki toowki, ɗaɓɓu karallaagal hisnude ɓoggi toowɗi / ekipaaji arborist; lartol limooje caɗtuɗe.
4. Secure hoore maa e lekki tiiɗki nder suudu hade maa yahde so aɗa fawi e nder lekki. Jokku kaski maa, cirƴaa junngo e koyngal e dow lekki mawki ndariindi (walla cirƴa webbing reserve bridle/lekki-rescue strap e sara lekki mawki web e nder lifto maa mawɗo e nder lifto maa mawɗo e nder lifto maa mawɗo e nder koyɗe maa (trauma suspension).
5. So a jippiima e ndiyam luggiɗam tawa aɗa waawi, taƴtu jokkorgal maa (e loowde kaɓirɗe) KO ADDI maa ɓuuɓde, kono ɗaɓɓu haa koyɗe maa memoo ndiyam ɗam ngam taƴde ɓoggol mawngol ngol e yaltude e ŋoral. Taƴde 10 meeteer (33 feet) e dow weeyo per smooth water illusion sabu dep smooth water gaañiiɓe; nde wootere e nder ndiyam, njuumtu dow henndu walla dow henndu woɗɗitaade ɓuuɓri naylon ɓuuɓndi mbele aɗa waasa ŋoŋɗude e les ɓuuɓri ndi alaa henndu.
6. So tawii pilot yanii e lekki walla heɓii batte ɓuuɓɗe e leydi, jogo kaski mum ON (so wonaa tawa ina haɗa wuurtinde laawol henndu) e dartinde wutte mum e ɓalndu mum. Jippagol sink parachute walla paraglider toowngol ina addana ɗum ɓuuɓde axial compression ring spirac e tholvic ring e tholvic ; larugo gaañiiɓe e ɓalndu.

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    Obstacle -->|"Ndiyam luggiɗam (Maayo, Maayo, Geec)"| Water["1. Ko adii nde jolnata: Sokkit jokkol ɓalndu (e kaɓirgal paramotor diƴƴe to dow)<br/>2. Waɗde haa koyɗe mema ndiyam, caggal ɗuum ƴettu junngo taƴaaɗo, yaltu e jokkere koyɗe<br/>3. Swim UPWIND laaɓɗo e sinkude canopy e laabi suspension"]
    Obstacle -->|"Toowɗo-Henndu Leydi Dragging"| WindDrag["1. Pullo toggol fereeji GOOTOL walla riser caggal fof haa e nder ngam ɓuuɓnude baagal<br/>2. Walla ɓuuɓnude junngo taƴngo mawngo (3-ring)<br/>3. Roll dow ɓaawo/bannge to harness mo teddaaka e dogga C-turn e canopy"]

Jippagol laabi doole : Wuurde toownde e nder weeyo e dow ɓoggi¶

1. Golle nder dingiral nde jolngo laana ndiwoowa ina waawi rewde¶

E wiyde Fedde Ameriknaare Parachute (USPA Skydiver's Information Manual) e Fedde Ameriknaare Hang Gliding e Parachute (USHPA), so a anndii les 100 meeter (330 feet) a waawaa woppude laabi peccitagol walla jolngo kuuraa dow :

1. Waɗde njilluuji tokoosi, ɓutti tan: Hoto meeɗ yankeede njilluuji 90 degere walla 180 degere toowɗi sara leydi ngam dogde e wire; ɓuuɓol les ngol ina addana ɓuuɓol ngol diwde e yaawre e nder leydi e njaaweeki toowki, ko ɗum woni sabaabu ɓurɗo teeŋtude e batte diwgol e paragliding.
2. Drop kala huunde jokkondirnde walla juutnde dartinaande: So a diwii e jolngo njamndi juutngo, jolngo kamera tandem, walla jolngo leslesngo ngo e dow saak militeer/kargo, jettison walla stow jolngo ngo mbele ngo waasa jolnude jolngo e leydi tawa aɗa woni dow jolngo ngoo.
3. Pewjanɗe ngam Parachute Landing Fall (PLF) e wirnude hoore maa e ɓoggi ɗii: Waɗde koyɗe maa e koppi maa ina tiiɗi, ɓuuɓna koyɗe maa e nder tiiɗnaare e dow ƴiye maa ngam reenaade ƴiye maa e ɓernde maa e ɓuuɓde e dow kaɓirgal njamndi mboɗeeri, e ƴeewde 45 degereeji stripping facero s wire maa not a.

2. Ko foti waɗeede so aɗa fawii e laabi kuuraa¶

So tawii laylaytol maa naylon ina ɓuuɓtoo e dow ŋoral toowngal, ina ɗacca ma aɗa ŋoŋɗi e weeyo (walla bottaari maa ina ŋoŋɗi dow huɗo tan):

1. FREEZE COMPLETELY STILL: So tawii ɓanndu maa e canopy ina memi tan ko ɓoggol faɗo gooto e aɗa memotaako leydi, ɓoggol utility, ɓoggol gorko, walla ɓoggol faɗo ɗiɗaɓo, aɗa woni e elektirik no colli jooɗiiɗi e dow ɓoggol ngol alaa ko woni e mum so wonaa ɓoggol, rewrude e ɓernde maa.
2. WOTO memu junngo maa taƴngo, ripcord rezerw, walla njamndi mboɗeeri:
3. Pullol maa cutaway pad geese/boɗeejo ina yaltina canopy maa mawɗo, jippina ma dow wire faso les walla dow leydi tawa laabi suspension caggal ina njuɓɓina haa jooni e dow wire toownde wuurnde, e oon sahaa ina sosa faso-to-fase walla faso-to-leydi circuit juutɗo rewrude e ɓanndu maa.
4. Pullogol junngo maa rezerw kaalis ina huɓɓa ɓuuɓol pilot njamndi mboɗeeri e kaɓirgal njamndi mboɗeeri e nder ɓoggi faɗo ɓadiiɗo, ina addana ɓuuɓol ɓurngol ɓuuɓde arc toowngol ngol ɓuuɓnata ɓuuɓol maa naylon e nder feccere leƴƴannde.
5. Ko waɗi laabi gonɗi e naylon, Spectra, Vectran, e Kevlar ina mbaawi jogaade kuuraa: Woto meeɗ sikkude laabi parachute maa walla paraglider maa ko ɓuuɓnooji kuuraa. E les toowɗe peccitagol e jolngo (4,800 haa 500,000 volt), diƴƴe mikroskoop, ɓuuɓri huɗo, ɓuuɓri, ɓuuɓri weeyo, walla fiɓnde karbon/aramid jolɗe nder laabi toowɗi jamaanu rewindaade jolngo maayngo haa les laabi ɗii e nder jokkorɗe mon harbbing riser njamndi e; larugo jolngo kuuraa.
6. Wullaade e ɓadtaade yiyooɓe e joom en leydi ngam WOƊƊUDE 30 METER (100 FEET): Hakkille ɓurɗo mawnude e pilot ina fawi 1 meeter (3 feet) dow leydi les laana ndiwoowa ko ƴeewoowo moƴƴo walla jaabtiiɗo gadano dogɗo ina nannga pilot oo ngam stea ɗum walla shoulders. So neɗɗo dariiɗo e leydi memii pilot gonɗo e ŋorol ngol, pilot oo e hisnoowo oo fof ngonta ko jolɗe toowɗe ummoraade e laana ndiwoowa toowka haa e leydi, ɓe ngona e ɓuuɓde.

Tree canopy landings and preventing suspension trauma¶

1. How to brace for an unavoidable tree landing¶

If you are descending into a forest or stand of trees with no clear meadow reachable:

1. Steer into the wind toward the thickest crown of a live, healthy tree (avoid dead snags): Aim for the dense, leafy middle crown of a live evergreen or hardwood tree rather than a bare, brittle dead trunk, which can impale you like a spear.
2. Reento njaaweeki diwgol feccere fereeji / ɓuuɓol no woorunoo, woto ndartin baagal toowngal dow ŋoral leɗɗe: Ɓoornugol ko yaawi no feewi meeteeruuji 10 (33 feet) dow ŋoral ina dartina paraglider walla parachute, ina addana-ma ɓuuɓde e dow ŋoral tawa ŋoral dow ŋoral ina ustoo.
3. Tesko-ɗen nokku ɗo leɗɗe ɗee ngoni ɗoo leƴƴanɗe 2 hade naatde e caɗeele ɗee:
4. Waɗde koyɗe maa e koppi maa ina njuutee no feewi (woto meeɗ seerndude koyɗe maa so a fadii e lekki, ɗum addanta ko ɓuuɓde (fatal straddle impalement) e dow caɗeele tiiɗɗe e ƴiye ɓuuɓɗe).
5. Taƴon juuɗe maa no feewi e yeeso yeeso maa, gite maa, e daande maa tawa juuɗe maa ina nannga riisuuji maa luurondirɗi ɗii walla koppi maa ina njuutee e ƴiye maa haa caɗeele ɓuuɓɗe ɓuuɓɗe mbaasa ɓuuɓnude daande maa (arterie carotide/trachée) walla ɓuuɓri (arterie axillaire).

2. Ko waɗi aɗa foti MEƊƊUDE ɓuuɓnude walla taƴde tawa aɗa fawi e lekki¶

So yahdu maa yeeso e les dartiima e nder ŋoral leɗɗe, haɓaade njiimaandi "ƴeeŋtude tan les meeteruuji 6 cakkitiiɗi ɗii" ina hisna nguurndam maa :

• L’illusion d’ancrage de canopy solide: Dow hoore maa, canopy maa ripstop naylon ɓuuɓɗo e laabi suspension ina famɗi ɗo cirƴaa e dow ŋoral lekki teddungal. E nder ɗuum, ɓuuɓri ndii ina heewi ɓuuɓneede seeɗa e dow ƴiye pine yaajɗe ɗe ngalaa semmbe, ɗe ɓuuɓɗe walla e ƴiye yaajɗe 1 santimeeteer (0,4 inch), jogorɗe jogaade tan ko ɓuuɓri ballondiral e nder diidi capanɗe joyi.
• Ko waɗi taƴde walla ustude ɓuuɓri ina wara: So skydiver ƴettii junngo taƴngo mum mawngo (ina ɗaminii jippaade e dow caltal les ngal), ɓe njippotoo ko e calɗi lesɗi ɓuuɓɗi ɗii haa e dow ladde. Ko noon kadi, so pilot paraglider udditii ɓoggi koyɗe mum en ina darii e dow ŋoral nanndungal e ŋoral, ittugol teddeendi ngol ɗoon e ɗoon ina addana ŋoral dow ngal fuɗnaade ŋoral, walla ŋoral ngal ina ɓuuɓtoo e les teddeendi bootooji maɓɓe tiiɗɗi, ɗum addana ɗum fadde haa ŋoral alaa ŋoral.
• Keep your helmet ON: Caɗeele leɗɗe maayɗe ɓuuɓɗe ɗe ɓuuɓol ɓuuɓngol dow ngol ɓuuɓnata, walla ɓuuɓol penndingol e nder ŋoral leɗɗe, ina waawi saabaade mboros bonɗo e hoore so a ittii kaski maa tawa aɗa fadi hisnude.

3. Haɗde mboros oo e nder ɓalndu (Syndrome de la hang harness)¶

So pilot walla skydiver ina fawii e dow ŋoral parachute (haa teeŋti e ŋoral diwooje peccitagol koyɗe walla ŋoral gonngal e dow tulde ɓuuɓngal tawa alaa ko woni e mum so wonaa ŋoral jaajngal tiiɗngal) tawa koyɗe mum en ina njirloo e nder weeyo :

1. The mechanism of suspension trauma: The tight femoral leg straps press against the large femoral veins in the groin crease while the dangling legs remain completely motionless. Without the rhythmic squeezing of the calf and thigh muscles (the skeletal muscle venous pump) pushing blood back up against gravity, up to 20 to 30 percent of your total circulating blood volume pools inside your lower legs within 10 to 20 minutes.
2. Rapid syncope and cardiac arrest: Deprived of venous return to the right atrium of the heart, cardiac output plummets, causing sudden dizziness, nausea, sweating, tunnel vision, and loss of consciousness (orthostatic shock). If an unconscious person continues hanging vertically in a harness unable to move, cerebral hypoxia and fatal cardiac arrest can follow within minutes.
3. How to prevent suspension trauma while waiting in a tree:
4. Yetto wuttudu mawndu nduu, daraa e dow tergal tiiɗngal (tawa aɗa ɓuuɓna ɗum): Ƴettu hoore maa no feewi e nder ngam huɓɓude wuttudu lekki mawndu nduu, mbaɗtaa koyngal gootal walla ɗiɗi e dow ŋoral gonngal e ŋoral teddungal sara ɗo ŋoral ngal jokkondiri ɗoo, mbele ƴiye koyɗe maa ina mbaawa jogaade teddeendi ɓanndu maa e nokku ɗo ŋoral ŋoral woni ɗoo.
5. Bicycle and pump your legs every 30 seconds: If you are hanging in open space beneath the branches and cannot reach a foothold, continuously flex your calves, pull your knees up toward your chest, and pedal your legs in the air to pump venous blood back up to your heart.
6. Create a foot loop (improvised Prusik or reserve bridle stirrup): If you carry a tree-rescue webbing line, a speedbar loop (on a paraglider), or can loop a piece of slack webbing beneath your boots, stand up in the loop periodically to relieve pressure on your femoral veins.
7. Medical care after rescuing a long-suspended jumper: Once high-angle rescuers lower a victim who has been hanging motionless for over 20 minutes, keep them strictly under observation for crush/suspension fluid shifts, monitor critical signs, and keep them warm and calm; see shock be fainting.

Deep water and ocean landings (Skydiving, paragliding, and paramotoring)¶

The extreme danger of powered paramotor (PPG) and parachute water landings¶

Water landings are among the highest-fatality emergencies in aviation sports, especially for powered paraglider (paramotor / PPG) pilots, who wear a 20-to-35-kilogram (45-to-75-pound) two-stroke engine and metal propeller cage bolted directly onto their back. If a paramotor pilot hits deep water without an automatic CO2 flotation collar on the frame and cannot get out of their harness within 5 seconds, the heavy engine flips them face-down in the water as the wet nylon wing and 300 meters of thin suspension lines tangle around their boots:

Step-by-step water landing survival procedure¶

1. While still 100 to 300 meters (330 to 1,000 feet) in the air over water:
2. Inflate your manual or CO2 personal flotation device (life vest) or paramotor frame flotation bladders immediately.
3. Loosen or kick off heavy boots if time permits, unclip your helmet chinstrap only if wearing a heavy camera helmet that could snag lines (keep standard protective water helmets on if approaching rocks/pilings), and unfasten your chest strap completely while gripping both risers/toggles firmly so your arms cannot slide out of the shoulder straps in mid-air.
4. (On a paramotor without frame flotation: Unbuckle the secondary waist/chest straps while keeping the main quick-release buckles ready under your thumbs, but NEVER jump out of your harness while still up in the air, water makes height judgment almost impossible; what looks like 2 meters above glassy water is often 15 meters / 50 feet high, which is a fatal drop.)
5. At the exact moment your feet touch the water:
6. Take a deep breath, pull your main canopy cutaway handle (skydiving) or hit the main harness quick-release buckles, arch your back, and slide your arms backward out of the shoulder straps and your legs out of the leg straps.
7. If the nylon canopy collapses down on top of your head in the water:
8. Do NOT thrash or kick your legs wildly: Kicking your legs in the water is what wraps thin Kevlar/Spectra suspension lines around your ankles like fishing gill nets.
9. Keep your legs still, reach straight up with one hand to push a small pocket of wet ripstop nylon fabric slightly above the water surface to create a breathing air pocket, and follow a single seam of the nylon fabric hand-over-hand in one direction until you reach the outer skirt edge of the canopy and swim clear into open water.

High-wind ground dragging and collapsed-wing impact first aid¶

1. Stopping a runaway parachute or paraglider drag in high winds¶

When landing in winds exceeding 35 to 55 kilometers per hour (22 to 35 miles per hour) or gust fronts, an open parachute or paraglider acts like a massive spinnaker sail on the ground, dragging a stunned or injured jumper across fields toward barbed-wire fences, highways, cliffs, or buildings:

• If you are the jumper being dragged:
• Pull your main canopy cutaway handle immediately (on a skydiving rig).
• If your cutaway fails or you are flying a paraglider without quick-out carabiners, let go of one brake toggle completely and pull ONLY ONE single brake line (or one single rear C/D riser) hand-over-hand all the way into your chest. Pulling both brakes symmetrically keeps the wing inflated straight downwind at maximum drag power; pulling only one side flags the canopy out like a flat sheet in the wind and kills its pulling force immediately.
• If you are a bystander trying to stop a canopy dragging an unconscious jumper:
• NEVER grab the taut suspension lines or dive onto the jumper's body while the canopy is fully inflated. Instead, sprint around to the downwind side of the inflated nylon canopy itself, grab the top leading edge (nose) of the nylon wing, and walk it upwind over the bottom edge to spill the air and collapse the sail onto the ground.

2. First aid for hard landings and low-turn canopy impacts¶

When a paraglider suffers an asymmetric or frontal deflagration (canopy collapse) close to terrain, or a skydiver executes a hard landing, the impact transfers massive vertical G-forces up the feet, legs, pelvis, and spine:

1. Maintain strict cervical and thoracolumbar spinal immobilization: Do not help a crashed pilot stand up or walk to a car. High-sink-rate landings in seated paraglider harnesses cause burst or wedge compression fractures of the T12, L1, and L2 vertebrae directly at the thoracolumbar hinge; standing up can drive bone fragments into the spinal cord and cause permanent paraplegia; see gaañiiɓe e ɓalndu.
2. Leave a full-face or open-face flight helmet ON if the pilot is breathing normally: Removing a snug flight helmet flexes the cervical spine; only remove the helmet if the pilot is unconscious, not breathing, or vomiting and you cannot clear their airway with the helmet on.
3. Check for unstable pelvic fractures and femur fractures: Look for leg shortening, outward rotation of a foot, or severe pelvic pain; keep the legs gently aligned without pressing inward on the hip bones, control any open compound fracture bleeding with sterile dressings, and keep the pilot insulated from ground cold while waiting for helicopter or ambulance evacuation; see broken bones and sprains.

Off-field rescue gear and pilot preparedness checklist¶

Before launching a paraglider, paramotor, or skydiving jump near forest, water, or rural utility corridors, verify that you carry and inspect these five survival tools:

• Shrouded aviation hook knife mounted on the chest strap or front flight deck: Carry a sharp, double-bladed shrouded hook knife (with a replaceable surgical steel blade recessed inside an aluminum or high-strength plastic slot so it cannot cut your fingers) mounted where you can reach it with either hand while hanging under load to slice entangled suspension lines during a water landing or high-wind drag.
• Tree-rescue kit inside the paraglider harness pocket: Carry a 15-to-25-meter (50-to-80-foot) spool of high-strength 3-millimeter aramid/Dyneema throw-line (to drop to ground rescuers so they can haul up a static climbing rope), plus a 2-meter (6.5-foot) sewn tubular webbing sling and two locking carabiners to anchor your harness directly around a tree trunk the instant you land in a canopy.
• Automatic water flotation device for all over-water or paramotor flights: Never fly a heavy backpack paramotor within gliding distance of a lake, river, or coastline without an automatic water-activated CO2 flotation device mounted to the paramotor frame and a personal flotation vest.
• Satellite SOS communicator, whistle, and 2-meter aviation/amateur radio: Cell phones frequently shatter on impact or fall out of pockets during a tree crashing sequence; clip a high-decibel pealess rescue whistle and a satellite SOS beacon (such as a Garmin inReach or PLB) directly to your harness shoulder strap.
• Pre-jump / pre-launch obstacle brief at every landing zone: Before boarding the aircraft or inflating your wing, visually identify the wind direction indicator, the primary clear landing area, the direction of all overhead power lines (look for the utility poles and transformer cans along roadsides even when the thin wires are invisible from 300 meters up), and your predetermined out-landing bailout fields.

Naamne keewɗe naamneede¶

Why do skydivers and paraglider pilots sometimes survive a tree landing unharmed, only to die a few minutes later?¶

Almost all fatal falls after a successful tree landing happen because the pilot or skydiver underestimates how precariously their canopy is snagged above them and either activates their canopy cutaway release handle or unbuckles their harness leg straps to climb down the tree. When a nylon parachute or paraglider settles into a tree canopy, it is usually held up only by friction across dozens of thin, brittle outer twigs rather than a thick structural branch. The instant the pilot shifts their weight, cuts away the main canopy, or unbuckles their harness to step onto a branch, the branch snaps or the canopy slips free, dropping the unroped pilot 15 to 30 meters (50 to 100 feet) to the ground. Always keep your helmet on and your harness completely buckled, secure yourself to the main tree trunk with a webbing sling, and wait for technical rope rescue teams.

If a skydiver or paraglider is hanging from power lines with their feet just 1 meter off the ground, why shouldn't bystanders grab their legs to help them down?¶

While a jumper is hanging suspended in the air from an overhead high-voltage power line without touching the ground or the utility pole, their entire body and harness are energized at thousands of volts, just like a bird perched on a wire. Because there is no path to the ground, no electricity flows through them yet. However, the instant a rescuer standing on the earth reaches up and touches the jumper's boots, harness, or dangling suspension lines, the rescuer's body completes a direct electrical circuit from the high-voltage wire through both people into the earth, fatally electrocuting both the jumper and the rescuer. Everyone on the ground must stay at least 15 to 30 meters (50 to 100 feet) back until the electric utility confirms the line is turned off and grounded.

What is suspension trauma (harness hang syndrome), and how can you prevent it while stuck in a tree?¶

Suspension trauma (also called orthostatic intolerance or harness hang syndrome) occurs when a person hangs motionless upright in a harness with their legs dangling freely for more than 15 to 30 minutes. The tight leg straps compress the large femoral veins in the groin while gravity pulls blood down into the motionless legs. Without the normal walking contraction of the leg muscles to pump blood back up to the heart, up to a quarter of the body's blood volume becomes trapped in the legs, starving the brain and heart of oxygen and leading to sudden fainting and fatal cardiac arrest. To prevent suspension trauma while waiting for tree rescue, pull yourself next to the main tree trunk so you can stand on a strong branch, or continuously bicycle and flex your legs every 30 seconds to pump blood back up to your torso.

Why should you never cut away your parachute or unbuckle your harness before your feet actually touch the water during a water landing?¶

Over calm or glassy water, human depth perception is notoriously unreliable, a jumper who believes they are only 1.5 meters (5 feet) above the surface is frequently still 12 to 20 meters (40 to 65 feet) up in the air. Cutting away your main parachute or sliding out of your unbuckled harness at 15 meters causes a high-velocity freefall impact onto the water surface that can fracture the spine, rupture internal organs, or knock you unconscious so you drown immediately. Always unfasten your chest strap while still in the air to prepare, keep your hands holding the risers, and wait until you feel your boots physically splash into the water before releasing the canopy cutaway or harness buckles.

This guide provides emergency survival and first aid procedures for parachute and paraglider landing accidents and does not replace certified flight instruction from the USPA, USHPA, BHPA, or FAI-affiliated national aero clubs. Consider taking a hands-on wilderness first aid and CPR course from the Red Cross, St John Ambulance, or a certified outdoor medical provider.

Ardiiɓe jokkondirɓe¶

• Laabi kuuraa njippinaaɗi e kuuraa otooji
• Ballal gadanal jolngo kuuraa e jolngo kuuraa
• Gaññeeje ɓalndu : immobilisation e toppitagol
• Drowning and water rescue first aid
• Kosam ɓuuɓɗam, ɓuuɓɗam, e ɓuuɓɗam
• Lost outdoors and wilderness survival

Fuɗɗoode ƴeewtaama¶

• United States Parachute Association (USPA, United States): Skydiver's Information Manual (SIM Section 5-1: Skydiving Emergencies, Tree Landings, Power Line Landings, and Water Landings)
• United States Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (USHPA) and British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association (BHPA, United Kingdom): Pilot Handbook Emergency Procedures for Tree Landings, Power Lines, and Water Immersion
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE, United Kingdom) and Wilderness Medical Society (WMS): Evidence-Based Review of Harness Suspension Trauma (Orthostatic Shock) and Rescue Management
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA, United States): NFPA 1006 Standard for Technical Rescuer Professional Qualifications (Rope Rescue and Arborist Tree Extrication)
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, United States): Powered Parachute and Weight-Shift Control Aircraft Flying Handbook and Parachute Rigger Handbook