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Completely OT - Skydive Nagambie 29-Jan-2009 At 7:23:11 PM Tom_

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I haven't jumped there, but i did stage 1 of AFF at a dropzone in NZ and they recommended Nagambie when I said I lived in Vic. I'm hoping to get over my fear (let's just say stage 1 didn't go so smoothly for me) and find the time do the AFF course at Nagambie.

The roughly accepted failure rate requiring some kind of action on the main chute is about 1 in 1000. Reserves don't get deployed enough to get figures on their failure rates, but they should generally be much less so (different kind of deployment, more carefully packed etc).

But then there are the other modes of pilot error such as as hitting something on landing or trying to swoop and failing. I feel it's quite like climbing in that the systems in place make it possible mitigate the risk almost entirely, and then it's up to you as to what risks you want to take.