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Almost all manufacturers have some sort of military discount if you call them. Sunpath has a decent military contract and will be very accommodating.

Your basing your math of 10k jumps over a 3.2 million jump year and not over a lifetime of jumping. If that was over say... 30 years then it would be 96 million jumps if the jump/year rate was the same. I you were jumping 10k times a year than it would be equivalent. So, say you logged 200 jumps last year. That means you had a 0.15% chance one of those deaths would have been yours. Lots of other factors like do you swoop? Do you AAD? Do you RSL, Do you CReW? all play factors as well. A conservative jumper's stats would decline while an aggressive down sizer / swooper's stats would climb.

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I may have been unclear. I wasn't suggesting an overzealous swooper / rigger team take this on themselves but the manufacturers. Special order maybe. AAD manufacturers offer the equipment and container manufacturers provide the routing via omfgimgoingsofast.swooping.com

So it seems as if the only drawback was it was toooooo easy to turn on/off. Accidentally at times. Seems like a pretty straightforward design fix. Going through the menus of a Vigil or Cypress would probably be task saturating but again, seems like an easy design fix. I may be wrong. Longer control cable and cutter cable and a software update for the start-up / shutdown procedures. A container modification for routing the control cable. Its seems as if there is a market for it.

Just 0.02 from a non-swooper, but I wonder why AAD and container manufacturers do not work out a way to make the controller accessible under canopy. Like a mudflap, chest strap, leg strap or w/e so they could then be turned off just prior to initiating their turn. Again, not a swooper but it seems to me that there are swoopers who do not jump AADs due to similar concerns and IDK if this is a viable solution to some of them.

I just skipped that thread until you posted. Like 4 min ago.

Get reacquainted with your PLF.

With the development of newer military static line parachutes there have been "3 ring" versions along the way throughout testing. However, there are no U.S., static line, military static line parachutes currently using the 3-ring. They use a male/female canopy release assembly.

Oh that Andy Harrington is one good videographer.

Spring loaded pilot chutes are still in fashion for some. The MC-4 HALO/HAHO military platform is ripcord deployed.

Not really something "new" but an alteration. I kinda feel like I'm tossing a 2 dollar idea into the wind but.... A way to run AAD remotes to the chest strap or leg strap. I'm no swooper but from what I've gathered is there is a sub-group who rather not use / turn on AADs when they plan on swooping. Now they can turn them off under canopy just before they set up for landing. It would be simple enough to do.

These types of systems have been in use for about a decade but an "affordable" one is a different story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1361500/MoD-launches-500-000-parachute-jump-simulator.html