Naa, the reserver ride was down to me incorrectly looping the throw away pilot webbing through the final closing sleeve on the parachute.
...For the non jumpers amonst us.. the parachute goes into a bag, which then drops into the container which then has 3 flaps of the container which a line feeds through, my pilot chute was looped around one of thses flaps....
Therefore at 2,500ft (after a really pumping skydive) I threw my pilot chute out, counted to five, looked up and no chute... BROWN TROUSERS !
Did my reserve drills, paniced, did them again, and again.. this time slowing and finally had the reserver out at 1100ft -
Therefore good learn... Did another 10 jumps or thereabouts and thought I'd better do something slightly less dangerous under the water instead.
Dan