Hellis

I just got the medium-sized Sky Systems bag. I haven't carried my rig on with it yet, but it does fit nicely into the overhead compartment when full of stuff. I live in Turkey, and have flown back and forth to the U.S. several times with my rig in checked baggage. Funny, TSA in the U.S. always seems to open my personal suitcase, but has never left me a note in my gear bag. The one I use for checking my rig is the older versioin of this: Eddie Bauer bag. The lower compartment is hard-side, and is used only for the rig. Once I zip that closed, the helmet, jumpsuits, shoes, and loose-ends box (small box with log book, gloves, alti, jump tickets, spare stows, etc), gets fit around the shape made by the rig, in the upper compartment. (I hope that description made sense). I also usually put the AAD instruction sheet right on top of the rig in the lower compartment, with my flight information (seat numbers, etc) so they can call me if anyone on any stage of my trip has any questions. However, I never once had an issue with checking my rig through like that. Seeing how bagagehandlers do their job loading/unloading the planes where people can see them always makes me wonder what goes on below the airport Would suck if you found out at 700 feet that the AAD does not work because someone was throwing your rig around.

Agree, it seems as if the slider is in it's position. Or it got "pushed up" to it's position. But what is clear is that the canopy did not inflate and then spread. The cells has very little pressure as the slider comes down, you can see that especially on the center cell as it deforms during end of the opening. Why it happened. No clue. Sometimes they just "happen" I guess, but usually less dramatic than that.

I was not arguing on the riggers job but on geting data from the reservse about their condition after X number of jumps.

I see this a either a. Being lazy b. Being dishonest (and allowing the owner to mask the true history of the canopy upon resale) c. Paper packing reserves (possible taking monies and not doing the work) d. Being incompetent and not following manufacturers instructions. The manufacturer wants this recorded so that when conditions are met the canopy can be tested and re-certified. This provides them with useful data on used or long time reserves. How can this reflect reality when riggers chose to ignore. I don't disagree with you but... If I was the manufactor (PD) then I would not take that data as fact. I would probably not care at all about that fact as it rely on others. If I wanted data I would get it from people I trust. And as far as I know, some of the workers at PD do jump and they have a quite good team they can use. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea of geting data, but you need to verify it or it's useless.

Track far away and take of your pants and hold them in your hand til impact. The investigators will be quite puzzeld about how you got so far and why you have your pants in your hand.

Didn't say it was possible, just a flight that you *could* exit from. I have seen people bring own food on board, so why not bring your own oxygen

Hellios air, or whatever it was called. A greek flight that circled around for hours (?) because everyone got hypoxic on the plane. Eventually it ran out of fuel and or crashed in to a mountain, can't remember which.

Does it work?

Reserve PC and freebag is standard size for that rig size (unless it was custom sized somehow). Do you mean the cutaway handle or the reserve handle on question 2? Or both? Either way I suggest you talk to your rigger and/or Sunpath. Guessing/buying used or something like that can be costly both in money and safety.

Maybe 5 years ago that was correct. But today you take selfies and post them before each task.

But you will need a powersource for the home base too?

What rubberband might that be? I don't have any rubberbands on my rig. The closest thing to a rubberband is the elastic webbings that keep the chest- and legstraps from flapping in the wind, but none of them are very crucial.

Sorry for my ignorance.. But why are sad smiley face pins more likely to get pulled in the airplane?

Why were they not grounded the minute he lost his riggers license? With one year repacktime and he lost his license a year ago that means most of his packjobs (or perhaps all) are already repacked now.

Up to 150? So that means it's a 135 normal fit rig? And probably sized for a 120-126 reserve? You could probably get a ~140 reserve in. Sounds ok to you?

I don't know how bad it really is. All I know is that the line twist is the most common malfunction (from what I've seen. No hard data here) and many line twists start from a toggle fire. ***Yet I don't hear much about it Not every toggle fire ends up with a cutaway. Not every cutaway because of toggle fire is reported as such. Most of them are simply reported as a line twist( which is actually true since that was the reason for the cutaway and the toggle fire was the reason for the twist ). It's a good discussion, but we are drifting away from the OP's question. Let's stay on the track. No that is not all you said, you first said ALL risers with 50+ jumps can't hold the brakes in place then you changed it to Icon. I do not believe many linetwists start with a brakerelease either. Looking from the ground you can clearly see when you have a brakerelease or just normal linetwists. I believe most linetwists are due to packing and bodyposition. It seems this is a local problem as others to has wrote they don't have any problems with their 50+ jumps risers. Maybe it's something with how you are thought to set the brakes in your area. And I'm serious, nobody else seems to have an issue with in my opinion "almost brand new gear".

Well, try this on Icon risers and then on any other velcroless risers you see around. You are talking about the moment the canopy is out of the bag. Toggle fire can happen before that. Are you saying Icon risers are worse than any other risers, or better? I doubt my toggles will fall out if I shake the risers on my Javelin as you explaned and my rig has about 400 jumps now. But I always make sure I set the brakes correct and do it neatly. Sure the toggles can fall out before linestetch, but if it really is as bad as you say this must be a very big problem for almost all jumpers. Yet I don't hear much about it. The only time this has been a problem for me was when I jumped rentalgear in Poland. Th keeper above the guidering was the old type (not the hat) and worn, each time the slider came down it would pop the right toggle.

About this. The local DZ organizes a canopy course once every month or so. The target group is beginner jumpers working toward their "A" license. This is the first time that they are told to put the slider behind their neck. Many of those folks don't have their own gear yet and they hire from us. 100 % of our mini risers have those PD bumpers, and I don't know they do it, but when the gear comes back to us after the weekend, almost all of the sliders are under the bumpers. I hope that any of this info helps. Might be true that the toggle will fall out, but the test is not realistic. In the real world air will push on the tail of the deploying canopy and keep tension on the brakeline. This will keep the toggle in place. So do that test aganin but put tension on the brakeline also.

So what is military optimized? Does the computer say 'Sir, yes sir!' when you plug in the USB cable instead of the generic 'duh duh' sound?

I believe all Android 4+ supports OTG but they need root. It's as far as I know, not about what phone, but android version and rooted or not that determins if it works or not. If it doesn't work you can always use wifi and send the files that way to your phone/tablet. It will drain the battery, but so will OTG because your phone/tablet will charge the GoPro. EDIT: my solution is to tape a extra memorycard on the backdoor (inside) the GoPro house. You could probably fit 4 or 5 memorycards there.

So this adapter thing, does that make it possible without rootaccess on Androids? I have one of those OTG adapters which is just pin 4 and 5 solderd together and it can only charge the device connected. If you have rooted android it can connect to it as a host and use the storage. But maybe this device is different?

My answer is 1.5 You don't "always" need one, it's your chooise. But I don't believe a rig made for you can't slip of you in a unlucky sitdeployment. I have one. I guess mostly because of the "sitdeployment", but also because it keeps the legstraps in position when I gear up. They don't twist and move out of position.

Are you sure it's breaking and not untieing itself? Most jumpers just put a knot on it and hope it will hold, maybe it would if it was not elastic. Elastic + knot = untieing itself. I tied a knot on mine just as everyone else, and then handtacked it with E-thread (unlike everyone else) and it has stayed there for four years. If it really does break, you need a longer cord.

I find that hard to believe !! There is a video of a girl doing a 2:30 min packjob on youtube. It's a sloppy packjob but it works.

What size reserves do you have/plan on buying to the next rig? Sounds like you have a large span in sizes and that generally means a smal reserve