Actually, #2, #3 and #4 (but not the pilot (Chris Gay)) later switched to split sliders because the removable sliders were having too much of an impact on the build time of the base 4-way. With all four people having to remove their sliders before docking it was just too slow. Chris (and previously the other 3 in the 4-way) were indeed using removable ZP sliders of the same sort used by swoopers, but without the d-bag as part of it. For competion CRW ZP sliders might be too slow, but for big-way work I don't think it matters one way or the other. We use mesh sliders for noise reduction more than anything. The 4-way had ZP sliders only because of the microline. We had a problem at Perris with some broken lines on deployment due to the opening speed of the lightning with a mesh slider combined with the inability for Spectra to stretch like Dacron does.
