Spanking from a Spectre?

[erdnarob 1]

It's not a myth for me. It actually happened. I am a big guy and have some material under the arms of my jumpsuit. But when I track and put my arms on the side of my body I lose automatically my "wings" and my track is always steeper than lighter people. On a bad spot (too short) in Florida I realized when tracking I was too far away from the airport, and as I said, I was in a hurry to pull and when I did I felt a huge difference in the opening shock. Fortunately I had a Katana. Should I have a Sabre, I would have end up maybe at the hospital. That time I had anyway to land in a glade in a forest and doing an unexpected landing accuracy with a fully elliptical canopy. The glade was actually covered with 4 feet high bushes therefore my landing was so so but I was OK.

I forgot a point (#10) on the factors contributing to hard openings: ie. the type of lines. Tubular nylon (550 lbs) used in the past was the best to alleviate the opening shock with an elasticity up to 20%. Dacron elasticity is about 10 to 15%, Spectra is about 2% and HMA almost 0%. Elasticity of the lines plays like a rubber band or bungee and allows the opening shock to be more progressive and therefore decreases the negative acceleration and reduces the force of the opening. It's almost like a car with a good suspension versus no suspension at all if you see what I mean.

Learn from others mistakes, you will never live long enough to make them all.

[ScottyE 0]

There is something That we use on are safety harnesses at work Fall Arrest systems called a decelerator. That is incorporated into the lanyard that you tie off with.

Kind of acts like a shock absorber if you fall its basicly excess lanyard that is folded accordian style and stiched together when you fall the stiching rips progressivly while it extends cushioning the sudden stop.

I'm not sure how or if you could incorperate it into a parachute system with out it being too bulky, Main lift web maybe where large riser ring attaches to harness , desighn it for 15- 20 G's load limit before it tears?

Im sure if it were feasable Bill would have incorperated it by now.

sorry about the spelling I'm really tired too tired to spell check

[jrcolo 0]

His rig does have tuck tabs,its brand new, and has spectra lines . As far as packing goes I double checked the slider after it was in the bag and it was against the stops. Thanks for all the replys, lots of good ideas for me.