What year did your school convert to throw-out pilot-chutes?

[riggerrob 643]

What year did your school convert to throw-out pilot-chutes?

Second question: were they mounted on belly-bands, rear of leg straps or bottom of container?

[JohnMitchell 16]

BOC, and I want to say at least 10 years ago, but maybe 13-14. It's been a good change from ripcords.

Doing AFF we have some quick release pocket rigs, but I've pulled the pilot chute out several times from the reserve side. Very easy to reach across.

[donaldgravelle 0]

When I started jumping, in 1979, the Gananoque dropzone was using throw-outs mounted on the belly band.

Since then, the throw-out migrated to the BOC position.

[riggerrob 643]

Circa 1984, our school (Waterville, Nova Scotia) bought a batch of Tomahogs from Gananoque. We salvaged reserves and AADs from our military-surplus rigs and converted to TO over the winter. TO pilotchutes were mounted on belly-bands.
Two or three schools later, we had TOs mounted on rear of leg.

During the mid-1990s, Roger Nelson started preaching the virtues of BOC TO.
During the late 1990s, American DZs rushed to convert to TO BOC. In 1997, Rigging Innovations introduced the Telesis 2 student container with BOC.
My last rigging job at Perris California was converting all of their student Telesis 1 rigs from main ripcord (spring-loaded pilot-chutes and FXC 12000M) to (2 handle) BOC. Perris was one of the last major schools to convert in 2001.

[kallend 2,026]

riggerrob

What year did your school convert to throw-out pilot-chutes?

Second question: were they mounted on belly-bands, rear of leg straps or bottom of container?

Skydive Chicago, before 1997 when I did my first jump. I had a throw out (BOC), Sabre 190 in Javelin rig.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[skydived19006 4]

We transitioned from static line to IAD in 99 at the DZ in Lyons KS, Oz Sport Parachute Culb/Center. Other than the correctly orintented depolyment with IAD over SL, the hand deploy PC and all else the same as a sport system is a great advantage. Training main rip cord and single operation syetem, then transitioning was not the best.

I believe that the K-State club changed a couple of years ago from spring loaded SL, to deploying a hand deploy PC on static line.

Experience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else.

AC DZ