Do you know what a TAS is/stands for in realtion to gear

[teason 0]

I've been talking to several extrememly knowledgable people in the equipment manufacturing field and no one has even heard of TAS.

Can anyone tell me if this is old terminology (like AOD) or maybe just a canadian thing?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

[teason 0]

Ooops, sorry.
TAS stands for two action system, as oppossed to single operatin system or SOS.

It's basically means a two handle system. I first learnt the acronym when I went from the SOS student gear I was trained on to two handle on my first sport rig.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

[mark 107]

TAS = True Airspeed. See also IAS (indicated airspeed) and CAS (calibrated airspeed).

Mark

[teason 0]

I guess is hould have said relating to gear.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

[IanHarrop 42]

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TAS stands for two action system, as oppossed to single operatin system or SOS.

It's basically means a two handle system.

I only recently learned this acronym. I'm going down east for my mom's 80th birthday and was checking out the student gear that a few dropzones have because my son is still on student status. Several of them responded to my request saying their gear was TAS. I didn't have a clue when I first saw TAS.

I've learned a lot of new acronyms in the last 18 months.

I still think they should be called AOD's and, damn it, a PC is a high performance round canopy.

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

[upndownshop 0]

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I still think they should be called AOD's and, damn it, a PC is a high performance round canopy.

Help me out. If I remember right the only reason they changed from AOD to AAD was for liability reasons? Is that correct?

[teason 0]

If I remember the story correctly, because the "O" stood for opening, the implication was that the device "opened" the parachute, which it can't possibly do. Changing it to activation made it more acurate.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

[skydiverek 63]

It is one of two speed settings on Protrack.

[Squeak 17]

yup knew what it was, we convert from a SOS to a TAS set up and need to be digned off for it by our CI

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