d bag stow attachment points

[timbarrett 0]

I have noticed some d bags with the stow attachment points seemingly down the front of the flap with the exception of the first two locking stows. This looks to be in contrast to the traditional arrangement along the edge of the bag. I asked why and was told one theory was that the newer location, by keeping the bights from hanging over the end of the bag, would not catch air during the deployment and thus make of a more symmetrical deployment process.
Just wondering if this is the whole story and whether there are any pro/con arguments for this arrangement?

"Work hard, play hard and don't whinge"

[mr2mk1g 10]

Kinda - it's so there is less distance between the bites on each side of the bag (left and right), thus the bag rotates left and right less during its movement to linestrech. The concept is that the reduced tumbling movement promotes a cleaner, on-heading opening.

Others have made their concerns known that it means more line bites and closer line bites down each side (closer front to back). This means there is potentially more risk that one bite will lock over the next causing a bag lock.

[RMURRAY 1]

JumpShack has been doing this for some time. the mass of the lines outboard of the rubber band is about the same as the mass of the lines inboard of the rubber band. this means when accelerated the lines tends to stay in place.

rm

[klafollette 0]

See http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1736838;#1736838

when I was asking the same question. After several line twists on my new rig/canopy, had my rigger sew linestows on the top Dbag flap, 1/3 of the way inboard from the edge, instead of the outboard bag-end linestows that come on the Vector. No more line twists.