New gear of the future??

[JerryBaumchen 1,466]

Hi dave,

Good thinking. This is the type of stuff that new ideas are made of.

One reason that the 2-flap works on the Advance is because it is a reserve with a through-loop going right through the center of the d-bag, which holds everything in place until you want it out-of-place.

I think Bill Booth once said that only about 1/4% of his ideas end up working. I know just what he means.

But the type of thinking in this thread is what gets everyone to the next generation of equipment.

My best ideas usually develop about 2:00 AM.

No, it does not have to do with a female!!!!!!

JerryBaumchen

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May be we should follow Parafun/Advance's lead and make main containers with only two flaps?

I think there was just a tandem fatality incident, outside the U.S., where a side flap opened prematurely, allowing the bag to slip out sideways, dragging the risers from one side through with it. The result was a partially open canopy with a violent spin.

This sounds like a really bad idea to me. I don't want open sides, which allow my bag to slip out unexpectedly.

This was with a Strong Tandem system, Basik's Advance or Seven is not concerned in this. The main canopy was far too small for the container .

Jérôme Bunker
Basik Air Concept
www.basik.fr
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[riggerrob 643]

Correct, the accident involved a Strong Dual Hawk Tandem container with two additional problems.
As with most aviation accidents, corpses were found at the end of a long string of mistakes.
There were two major problems: canopy volume and lack of inspections.

The problem started with installing a HOP canopy with significantly less volume than the usual SET 400.

The second problem was neglected inspections. It is clear that the TI did not inspect the rig just before the jump, and it appears that 25-jump inspections were neglected. Neglecting longer-term inspections allowed a hand tack (on a flex pin housing) to fail completely and the housing slid so far down that it locked the main container closed.
Since maintenance records disappeared after the accident (surprise! surprise!) it is not even clear if the reserve was repacked in the two years since it left the factory.
So the housing jammed a main closing loop and the drogue tried to pull the (softer than normal) deployment bag past it.