odd hip mounted pilot chute pouch

[pchapman 279]

I came across a pilot chute pouch of a type that's new and odd to me. (This is a trivial post, but this is History & Trivia...)

It's a square nylon hip mounted pouch, with central slot from which to extract the pilot chute.

In the evolution of rigs, it looks like it is past the cordura belly-band stage, but prior to the Spandex leg throw-out stage.

I only looked at the rig briefly, but it's a British rig from the early 80's, a Wonderhog-style rig that I understand was built by GQ.

(The bottom of the rig shows evidence of later conversion to a pull-out.)

[airtwardo 7]

I saw a similar conversion on an older 'Mimi-Hawk' that had a ROL but was converted to a pouch like the pic shows because the owner was afraid of 'damaging' the PC but sitting on it!

Some had a FOL throw out back then, he thought the ROL was a 'bad' design.


Nice MLW by the way!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[NickDG 23]

I had one of those pouches. We called it a Kleenex Box. It came on the first Racer I bought that was not an SST. This was about 1981 . . . It worked fine and I guess might be considered one of the "missing links" between leg mount pouches and BOCs . . .

NickD BASE 194

[lekstrom10k 0]

RWS made a rig 80-s with the leg strap tensioner on the backside. You had the pilot chute pouch on the front and it was like putting your hand in your own pants pocket. We had a guy at a POPS meet in Sandusky Mi that was shriveled up at 80? that when his wife tightened up his leg strap it threaded through the buckle and choked hie pilot chute. He almosted went in and pulled his reserve at 300 feet or so. He didnt want to jump his brand new rig for the second time

[sundevil777 102]

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Some had a FOL throw out back then

My old Northern Lite II had a FOL (front of leg) pouch.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[Zing 2]

My first hand-deploy rig was an original SST with shot-and-a-half Capewells, converted from a ripcord set-up. The pouch for the pilot chute was sewn to the back of the mainlift web.
There were a lot of home-made hand-deploy set ups during the transition from ripcords to hand-deploy deployemnt systems.

Zing Lurks

[wmw999 2,439]

My first throw-out was having the pilot chute stuffed into where the lateral came out of the back pad; there was a (very insecure I'm sure) cavity in there.

Since I never floated, and was mostly stable, the thought of its coming out prematurely never even occurred to me.

My next rig had an FOL, quite deliberately. I wanted the hardware on the back of my legs to reduce bruising. It was wonderful...

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)

[JerryBaumchen 1,354]

The first rig that I built for myself just as I was getting my TSO had the pilot chute stuck in between the backpad and the main container; very similar to a Handbury rig.

As this was a pull-out P/C quite often it would come out of the 'pouch' and flop around. It wouldn't deploy because of the pull-out feature. It sure caused a lot of guys that I jumped with to nearly
s&%t their pants. I was at a boogie down in SpaceLand and it came out and this other jumper would not come near me. After we landed he said he could not understand why I didn't just go zoom.

It was a good idea that was not perfect. Oh well, on to the next great idea . . .

Jerry

[aepiper 0]

GQ built and the look of the main flap makes me think of the GQ rig called the "System" that was introduced in the late 70's/early 80's, around the time that the GQ "Unit" main was introduced. The only "System" that I jumped was owned by Tom Manning or Guy Manos (I think). It had a pull-out, and I only jumped it once or twice at Homestead FL between '78-'81.

***I only looked at the rig briefly, but it's a British rig from the early 80's, a Wonderhog-style rig that I understand was built by GQ.