There was a Westy meet last summer, and a local skydiving club was offering
familiarization dives and courses to all the participants.

In the training, all students were told in the event of a main chute
deployment failure, they were to immediately pull the reserve chute rip
cord.

One Westy owner decided to take the course, even though he had to leave his
buddy alone to find the leak in the vaccuum system of his Westy.

It was time to jump, he jumped and immediately had a main chute failure. As
instructed, he pulled the reserve chute rip cord. Nothing.

"Oh no", he screamed, as he saw the ground spinning and rushing towards him
furiously.

Then, he noticed a speck, near the ground, and it was getting bigger, and
appeared to be rushing towards him! He realized that it was his friend,
rocketting into the sky at an amazing rate!

As they passed, the skydiver yelled, "Hey, know anything about parachutes?"
His friend yelled, "No! Know anything about checking for vaccuum leaks using
carb spray?"

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy