hi all
Civvie parachutists, even with fully steerable chutes, generally knock off when the wind reaches 20kts(apart from the real nutters). Some of them put pressure on the drop pilots to take them up when the wind is greater than 20kts, but generally sense prevails. Given the amount of minor injuries that happen routinely(ankles, bruises,cuts,etc), parachuting is risky enough without factoring in stupidity.
Incidentally, a friend of mine ejected from a SHAR at low-level and was in the air for 0.6 seconds. The aircraft remained aloft for about the same. not much time for decision-making there.
regards
TDD