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[Gravity7]

Gravity7, on 11 January 2012 - 10:51 AM, said:

Terry Wahlen, on 08 December 2011 - 06:02 PM, said:

No hook turns. (No turns greater than 90 degrees under 500 feet AGL.)

I have been re-reading this thread, and I keep coming back to this definition.
I reject it.
This is not a hook turn - it's just a turn.
If this defines a hook turn, then I do hook turns on every jump.

I call it setting up.

I am opening a new thread in Technical for discussion of "what is a hook turn", so as to keep this thread on discussion of Tandem.

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Peter

[milehigheric]

I saw a potentially nasty low hook turn the weekend just gone....The jumper was momentarily target fixed at a camerman on the ground (planning to swoop past it) on approach and missed the safe window for the 180. There was no safe option to overshoot downwind (hangers signs etc) so he went for it and hit the ground just as the canopy started to regain flight. I tell you, the thud I heard from the packing shed was enough to put me off the idea of hook turns/swooping for a long while yet (still a novice mind you, so it was never 'on the cards'). He ended up a bit sore but ok - the difference of only a few feet would have dramatically changed the outcome thats for sure.