Tandem Packing Manuals

[MightyMouse 0]

Not sure if this is the right forum, but if anyone can point me to a link or site that has electronic versions of tandem container manuals that are readable online or downloadable I'd appreciate a pointer. I'm doing a Packer B rating and I'd appreciate a look at a manufacturers' packing recommendation to verify that what I'm doing / being taught is correct.

Thanks

[egons 0]

Relative Workshop Products.

http://www.relativeworkshop.com/support_manuals.html

Cheers
Egon

"Start doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible!"

[AndyMan 7]

Strong Dual Hawk owners manual: http://www.strongparachutes.com/PDF_Files/DHTman98.pdf

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[MightyMouse 0]

Thanks heaps

[pchapman 279]

While it is important to get the manuals, it also helps to find out what experienced people are doing in the field. Sometimes its hard to tell whether what's in the manual is Correct, Good, Normal, or not.

My justification to say the above:

When my local DZ bought Sigma tandems in '02 (after having used Strongs), we started out learning to pack according to the manual. When a very experienced instructor arrived to teach the tandem instructors course, he kept on saying about the pack jobs, "you don't need to do it that special way -- just do it the regular way" or "we now do it this way instead".

Tandem exits also vary between the manual and actual practice, due to the age of some of the manual's contents. The Vector tandem manual that came with the Sigmas showed one type of exit that I gather most in the industry has stayed well away from for many years. (Poised, facing forward, all the way out on the step of a C-182 etc.)

Even with reserve packing opinions differ -- I've always packed the PD reserves in the Sigmas in the special way they show in the manuals. But last year we bought another Sigma, and its reserve pack job from the factory was done in a very different manner. Interesting!