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"Freefly-Friendly" Rig or "Freefly-Friendly" System

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"Freefly-Friendly" Rig or "Freefly-Friendly" System.

Something is bothering me here, so I would like to get some opinions of your expectations of your gear.

A guy I know had had his 2nd reserve ride due to one of his toggles (somehow!) coming loose and getting outside his rig in freefall.

Evidently this has meant an unstowed toggle, turn on opening, unrecoverable spin, cutaway, etc.

Now I may be odd or something, but I don't find this at all acceptable.

The strange thing I find is his comment to the effect of, "I'll be glad when I get my XXXXX (rig) because this one isn't freefly-friendly.

My question to you is whether you think your rig should provide all of the "protection" required of a particular type of skydiving, or whether you think of your gear as a "system", all parts of which need to be designed well and be in good order.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why so many people are willing to use riser/toggle combinations that don't securely hold the toggles in place and don't have some place to stow the excess steering line!

These are accidents waiting to happen, and they have happened.

(And I'm not even talking about Velcro versus non-Velcro styles.)

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