Nikolay Kovalev

Date: March 8, 2018
Nationality: Russian
Location: Avsunino, Moscow region, Russia
Object Type: Antenna
COD: Low Pull
Clothes / Suit: Slick
Gear /Parachute: Apex DP / Flick 254
Age: 23
Skydive Experience: TBD
BASE Experience: 50
WS BASE Experience: TBD
Number of WS BASE Jumps from this exit: TBD
Years in Base: 7 months
Time of day: Morning
Causal factors: TBD
Exit Altitude: 260m
Conditions: Good
Wind on ground: TBD
Wind on exit: TBD
Wind mid flight: TBD

Description:
Nikolay started BASE last summer, he made about 50 slider-down jumps. He performed poor gainers, some of them were rather unstable and uncontrolled. He made 2-3 slider-up jumps from this antenna without acrobatic, it was his first slider-up object.

Last time he decided to make a gainer. He could not set the rotation and hovered, then rolled over his side. Then he tried to stabilize and turn away from the antenna. He threw his PC too low, and impacted without canopy.

His story illustrates that too fast progress without proper training leads to a sad final.

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