smokeypete

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    Along the lines of JP's suggestion regarding the best solution is "prevention."

    Brian Germain has the following: The Secret to Pilot Chute Packing



    Since shown this I do it every time... and have amazed that it's not more common practice. Apart from potentially preventing a horseshoe, I like how it effectively can't be done with an uncocked PC (and so can also prevent a PC in tow).

    Does anyone know of a potential downside?

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    Based on talking with him, various other stories and my personal experiments with pre-planned breakaways including ones side and one riser breakaway I'm going to suggest that cutting 4 risers one at a time is FAR more difficult than people think.
    ...
    :)



    Would be interested to hear more about that. A knife goes through anything under tension like butter, but without the tension it's a different story. I would therefore expect the first side (or at least the first of the 4 risers) to go quite easily, but with that release of drag/tension (as the now-only half-attached canopy becomes a very long, thin streamer), I expect the other side would be *much* more difficult. And that's aside from any additional loss of stability being added to the mix.

    And as you say, at that point there's still 2 (maybe 3) risers left to saw through.[:/]

    This shit scares the hell out of me.