Book packing ZP

[airdvr 210]

Is it OK? Anything to watch out for?

Please don't dent the planet.

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[phoenixlpr 0]

What are you talking about?

[councilman24 37]

Your too young

airdvr:

Don't know of any issues for rectangular canopies like a triathlon. Depending on the canopy you need to treat the nose appropriately. If you mean stack packing - B on A, C on B, D on C, split and wrap the tail.

For any of the slightly elliptical, elliptical etc. probably not the best.

If you mean "flop" packing - A on B, D on C, and fold to the middle I wouldn't recommend this because it is an asymetrical opening.

Hey, I learned to propack. Even reserves! You can too. And it does take up less space in the hanger.

I'm old for my age.
Terry Urban
D-8631
FAA DPRE

[airdvr 210]

Thz Terry...my pro packing skills are so rusty and I've got an unpacked Tri sitting on my lving room floor.

Please don't dent the planet.

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[phoenixlpr 0]

Come on! You must have been kidding.

[IanHarrop 42]

maybe this will help.

http://www.packingparachutes.com/packing_course/packing_index.htm

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[MakeItHappen 15]

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Is it OK? Anything to watch out for?

I roll pack a Safire.
I also rolled packed zp canopies I demo-ed when I was figuring out what to buy.

I pro packed for about a year (way back in the 80s). Those pack jobs never opened very consistently and tended not to fill the corners of the bag as well.

I've been packing this way since 1990 or so.
I lay the brake lines on the d lines.
Then fold that on top of the c lines.
Then I fold the LE over an extended line drawn from the A lines
I fold that over on top of the b lines.
I pull the slider up and lay it on top of the end cell.
Then I fold the cd stack over on top of the ab stack.
On-heading openings 99% of the time.
One of Strong's packing manuals has pics.

A lot of new jumpers are 'shocked' or 'aghast' when they watch me pack. Except one time a new jumper said it looked much easier than a pro pack. His friends, other new jumpers, talked him out of even trying it.

The initial unfurling of the canopy during deployment is asymmetrical, but the inflation part is symmetrical.

The standard flat stack pack for zp is harder to do because you are trying to squish air out the TE. On the roll pack the air is pushed out the LE. Craig Girard uses a standard stack pack. I believe he jumps a PD elliptical.

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[riggerrob 643]

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Is it OK? Anything to watch out for?

I roll pack a Safire.
I also rolled packed zp canopies I demo-ed when I was figuring out what to buy.

I pro packed for about a year (way back in the 80s). Those pack jobs never opened very consistently and tended not to fill the corners of the bag as well.

I've been packing this way since 1990 or so.
I lay the brake lines on the d lines.
Then fold that on top of the c lines.
Then I fold the LE over an extended line drawn from the A lines
I fold that over on top of the b lines.
I pull the slider up and lay it on top of the end cell.
Then I fold the cd stack over on top of the ab stack.
On-heading openings 99% of the time.
One of Strong's packing manuals has pics.

A lot of new jumpers are 'shocked' or 'aghast' when they watch me pack. Except one time a new jumper said it looked much easier than a pro pack. His friends, other new jumpers, talked him out of even trying it.

The initial unfurling of the canopy during deployment is asymmetrical, but the inflation part is symmetrical.

The standard flat stack pack for zp is harder to do because you are trying to squish air out the TE. On the roll pack the air is pushed out the LE. Craig Girard uses a standard stack pack. I believe he jumps a PD elliptical.

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[JohnRich 4]

What is "book" packing?

[airdvr 210]

Basically laying the canopy out on its "side", then folding with each line group on top of the previous. It's how we packed b4 pro became so popular. The knock on it back then was off heading openings because you're laying the canopy out at 90 degrees off heading...but my headings on opening are all over the place anyways..

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[wmw999 2,587]

I used to do that. I resisted propacking. My headings are much more on opening now, really.

I do a psycho pack; the openings are very consistently exactly as I like them right now. As the canopy ages more, the lines get out of trim again, or the pilot chute ages, that might change.

You do have a good picture when you side pack it -- I liked that. But yes, I always had a 90 degree turn. You are in charge of that, and can fix it.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[pincheck 0]

Is that the same as flat packing by another name ? which is how i was first shown how to pack club kit

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