Sentient_Meat

Always be nice to your packers.

From reading his comments, it seems it actually deployed just fine, it was just attached facing the wrong way, haha.

He didn't exactly have a total malfunction, it appears the parachute deployed okay, it was just attached backwards so it would have slowed them down enough for the instructor to verbally communicate with the passenger. It's just like how you were able to talk with your instructor once the parachute was open, except they were just flying in the wrong direction.

I'm a licensed skydiver so I know how it goes, maybe I just misread your comment when you said your instructor told you the cute had failed thinking it was before he cut-away. He definitely made the right decision but I'm curious why you say you didn't slow down enough?

13,500 is pretty much the standard jump altitude for turbine aircraft. Smaller less powerful planes like Cessna 182's and what-not tend to be around 10,500.