Know Your Rig from Parachutist

[UnusualAttitude 0]

Hi guys,

I've been subscribing to Parachutist for about a year now...but haven't been reading all the articles. In the last two issues I started reading the "Know Your Rig" article and I really like it.

However, I'm missing the first three...anyone willing to scan them and upload them or email them to me?

Thanks ;-)

[ChrisL 2]

Contact the USPA and ask them to send you the missing issues.

I have done that before when I miussed an issue for one reason or other and they have helped me out...

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My mighty steed

[Lastchance 0]

For the last four yrs. I have had a certain way of stowing the extra 18 inches or so of lines below my risers to my deployment bag. I never really liked it and sometimes had semi hard or off heading openings. Last month in know your rig they showed me a different option and also recomended not putting the bag in the containor lines down and then turning it into place. Have done 5 jumps with the new procedure and love it. Thanks parachutist.

I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands.

[JohnRich 4]

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Hi guys,

I've been subscribing to Parachutist for about a year now...but haven't been reading all the articles...

Knowledge is life.

[ZigZagMarquis 9]

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I've been subscribing to Parachutist for about a year now...but haven't been reading all the articles.

... get a subscription to Skydiving magazine too...

[gauleyguide 0]

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recomended not putting the bag in the containor lines down and then turning it into place. Have done 5 jumps with the new procedure and love it.

Interesting, what are you doing now?

-A

"Don't keep your pilot chute a secret"

[Lastchance 0]

Once my lines are stowed on the deployment bag I have aprox. 18 inches of line left. I bring my bag past the bottom of my container, tuck in my risers, and lay the extra line in the bottom of the pack tray in orderly folds. Then I bring my deployment bag back up and lay it in the pack tray just the way it will be whan fully packed. Then I carefully tuck it all in being sure not to upset my line stows. Then I close my container as usual. So far so good.

I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands.

[gauleyguide 0]

Oh,I see, the point is not to "disturb" the "18 inches" of line?right?!
-A

"Don't keep your pilot chute a secret"

[Lastchance 0]

Basically to keep them from snagging on anything on deployment. you just want them coming out clean and in sequence with the rest of your deployment. This will hopfully prevent line twists or worse.

I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands.

[airricks 0]

I scanned the first three real quick if you still need them, but they're too big to post here.

Let me know if you want me to email or PM them.

[wmw999 2,444]

There was a discussion a couple of years ago in Gear and Rigging (here)[url] about how much line to leave at the end, and how to stow it. Bill Booth posted in it, and I tend to give what he writes a lot of weight.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)