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Scenario #2:   At the top end of the tether, the skydiver could attach a kite to aid line retrieval. A complete separate 'chute might be carried so that the first one could be hooked to the line allowing a full skydive instead of just a rapid-descent mode.
~ BobS      M3247

Kite a lifting parafoil chute with a mooring on the ground with skydiver near canopy, but skydiver carries unopened canopy for use after release from the main lifting tether.
Unfolding the scenario
  1. The lifter wing stays flying after the skydiver releases into free-fall. Skydiver has a packed wing for opening after separation from the lifter kite system for a glide.
     
  2. Maybe BobS' comment on the "attach a kite to aid line retrieval" is for first scenario, which see. 
     
  3. I am not clear on meaning of "instead of just a rapid-descent mode."  Are you referring to the rapid descent of the main tether in Scenario #1?   Or are you referring to the rapid descent of the entire system; and in contrast the scenario of this page leaves the lifter system flying while the skydiver is separated?
     
  4. This is a relative to early man-lifting kiting with the added aspect of dropping off the man-lifting kiting into a skydive. Close to this was the beginning of skydiving: The history of skydiving starts with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797.  But hereon now we are considering releasing from a KS with a mooring on the ground instead of a hot-air balloon.
     
  5. This scenario branches on the nature of the mooring. Is the mooring a moving vehicle (car, truck, ship, raft, etc.) or is the mooring fixed (with or without payout winch). These split sub-scenarios have their own special design and operational needs. Use of ambient winds or the creation of artificial winds by moving moorings makes a difference.