STREAMERS occur when the pilot chute pulls the bag off the packed main chute, but it streams out and doesn't inflate. There will be a long trail of pilot chute line attached to a stream of parachute (a round resembles a big cloth "cigar" shape, a ramair is bunched and the slider isn't visible), with the risers and lines in view below. Emergency aircrew are taught to grab as high on the risers as possible and shake them wide apart, trying to get air into the canopy to cause inflation. Operational jumpers are told to pull down twice on the rear risers. If there is no parachute inflation, the jumper should not waste time on a cutaway, pull the reserve immediately. The sports procedure is to just pull the reserve.

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