Steve Wilkins said:Say what? Come on Feddoc,. your posts usually make sense. This one is out there I guess. The pull of gravity is the same whether you're talking about me or my wife's 10 lb cat. Will she (the cat) falll faster (harder) than the rest of us if we were both dropped from a height of 100 feet? Uhhhh......no.
SW,
Sorry, meant that sarcastically.....the rest of it was the truth....honest.
On edit, there is a grain of truth to that. At a body weight of 280, the chances of a torn panel increase due to the effects of opening shock on the 'chute. That torn panel may cause the guy to fall a bit faster than if he were, say, 180 or so and the 'chute was undamaged.