positive pull pud system. What is this?

[Milo 0]

I read this in another thread. What is this? Is it the standard pilot chute that then pulls your closing pin or something else that also pulls your closing pin?

[Andrewwhyte 1]

It is a deployment system where the pilot chute is stored inside the main container with the rest of the assembly. Part way down the bridal is a grommet; through that grommet slides another piece of bridal material. On one end of that piece is the closing pin, on the other is a handle. The handle is stored in a keeper on the bottom of the rig, right where the throw out handle is on a throw out rig. When you pull the handle the pin is pulled. Once the container is opened you continue pulling until the pilot chute is in the air stream.

[riggerrob 643]

Yeah!
Whatever Andrew said.

Remember that - back in the 1970s - skydivers were experimenting with a variety of hand-deploy pilot chutes to replace main ripcords.
Two systems emerged. Throw-out now makes up 90 percent of today's market.
Pull-out is only about 5 percent of toady's market. Try to think of pull-out as a small, soft ripcord.
Pull-out fanatics got handle location (lower right corner of container) correct very early in the process and it only took thrower-outers another 15 or 20 years to convert to the true religion ... er simplest handle location.

[JerryBaumchen 1,439]

Hi rob,

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Pull-out fanatics got handle location (lower right corner of container) correct very early in the process and it only took thrower-outers another 15 or 20 years to convert to the true religion ... er simplest handle location.

That's why us 'pull-out fanatics' believe it to be the best method.

I am also a believer that the reserve ripcord should be on the right-hand MLW for right-handed people. I've always built my own personal rigs this way. Many, many years ago I was at a Turkey Boogie in Spaceland and the guy sitting across from me said that he would never jump that rig. I asked why and he said because of the handle(s) location. I just laughed; you cannot convert a true believer, they just love that Kool-Aid.

JerryBaumchen

[MakeItHappen 15]

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I read this in another thread. What is this? Is it the standard pilot chute that then pulls your closing pin or something else that also pulls your closing pin?

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