chemacelorio

bold face my emphasis So it sounds to me that you do not have the 'knot' / 'tab' of the slink tacked to the riser? Ken Well, I do now . It was tacked at some point but I hadn't checked it that weekend, it wasn't on my map before as something to check for. So at the time of the incident my guess is that the knot was completely out of the riser, cause the excess line stuck well to it, keep in mind that with an open canopy the knot has enough pressure to keep it at 90 degrees turned since there it is in tension on the lines. Same answer, before i just left them laying around now I am tucking the excess line inside the rubber housing for the breaks themselves, I am unsure if I like this setup or not, among other things because of the extra wear on my break lines.

The best thing that I can recommend everyone is to be aware of the potential problem with soft links. My toggle got stuck after a big way (it happened to be in Perris two days after the incident) and I believe that because I have heard rumors about a potential problem with soft links I was able to recognize it and have a safe descent to the ground, I was in Eloy back in April when a fatal incident occurred, I heard from eye witness that a girl started spiraling hard towards the ground and a couple of days later someone told me that it might have been related to the soft links (bear in mind that this is back in April). As soon as my right toggle got stuck the first thing that came into mind was "Eloy", I calmed down, conpensanted the turn (since the other break was released already) and easily unhooked the excess brake line. The biggest problem I see, after the experience that i had, was not so much that the excess line got stuck but that it felt like if pulling on the toggle harder would unsnapped it, it really felt that way and our minds have been trained for hundreds or thousands of jumps that pulling that yellow thing down releases the break. In my case the excess line got stock with the knot of the front riser slink, so pulling on the toggle applied pressure to both risers on the same side and thus creating a hard turn. To summarize, until the manufacturers come with a definite solution recognizing the problem can save your life. Keep in mind that pulling on the toggle hard will create a large problem from a smaller one. Hiding the slink knot in the risers and stowing the excess line can also prevent the problem, that that has been discussed in this thread already. safe landings, Chema

Nice dropzone, it now has an Otter for the Winter season. Nice community.