ineed2fly

You could probably have something silk screened on after construction but embroidery would need to be done before construction. You could have something embroidered on the body or the sleeves though I'm sure. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

They're expensive and I can use the money to buy the better part of a base rig "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

The skyhook's failsafe is to function as a normal RSL, its held in by a hook with an open end, and it has to be able to release the RSL to the riser from the reserve bridle or you wouldn't be able to deploy your reserve manually, your choice. You throw a piece of cord on an open ended hook into 120mph wind enough times, eventually its going to slip off, its still functioning as a normal RSL (just like it is designed to), its not like people are cutting away and the skyhook is failing to open the reserve container and they have to deploy manually. I love how all these people are so quick to bash a lifesaving invention. I'd love to see bill chime in on this one. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

In all seriousness though, don't take base gear out of aircraft. There is absolutely no reason to. If you really want to, borrow a big rig if you don't own one, and free pack your base canopy into your sky rig (as long as you have a spandex BOC, id be worried about a hard pull with a 32" PC in a cordura BOC) pack it just like you would a base rig, but with more S folds, it works exactly the same and is legal. You'd totally fuck the pilot if you got caught, especially if he doesn't understand the difference in gear and thinks its all legal. Talk to some local experienced jumpers, if you're friends with base jumpers i guarantee someone you know has organized off DZ loads, heli, aeroplane, or balloon, whatever it all applies. I'm sure they can help you set up a load safely, and would gladly come along to fall out of it Be smart and safe, and for the pilots sake legal. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Step 3: Post this up on www.basejumper.com next time "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

It's so cute when people rig with polycotton! "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Hey! We're working on developing a system like that right now, building all the proto's from scratch, and wed be more than happy to get something going for you. Doing all the prototype work here in colorado and doing the testing up in Oregon with www.theflystyle.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33IasPYS7cM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idSokAaz0_A "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Thats me "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

I am aware of the velcro shear peel strength difference, I'm building the handle like the handles on the Sigma tandem rig (the stiffened loop style ones, not the pillows). The handle will velcro on the same way. Thanks for the input on the hard housings, I'll contact the manufacturers you linked me to and see if I can get ahold of some custom length housing instead of trying to make a bunch of lengths from paragear work. Which will allow me to have both cables come out the top. On the note of the collins lanyard, I am going to try to build one into the system since a single riser release would be no bueno with a MARD system. The project is a cutaway paragliding harness with a BASE canopy as a reserve, so the over the shoulder geometry is completely different from a skydiving container. The rings are at your hips instead of your chest, which is why I need the longer hard housing to cover that distance. And it makes adding a collins lanyard much more difficult as the lanyard would need to be 3-4' long, but it is doable. It'd much better to be wondering how your 40 cell high aspect ratio high performance ZP parachute is suddenly an F111 7 cell, than to have the aforementioned parachutes trying to eat each other. Of course with a collins lanyard I will need a break in the hard housing.... "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Designing a cutaway handle for a project I'm working on, and I'm trying to figure out how to route the cable through the hard housings. (Problem would be more easily solved if someone knew where I could get the small diameter hard housing by the foot, and knows how I could put the brass ferules on the ends, and the end fittings with grommets onto them) But I have 2 options, get a finished (end fittings on them) set from paragear, and then a 19" section and link them together with some aquarium tubing and heat shrink over it to make them long enough (actually a little too long), which would allow both ends of the cable to come out the top of the handle. Or work without the 19" section as an extender and have the cable come out either end of the handle. So, does anyone see a problem with having a cutaway handle like on the left in the picture? (with cable coming out opposite ends) Again, if anyone knows where I could order the housing by the foot with brass ferules to cap it that would be much simpler. Thanks! "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Thanks! yeah the type 4 looks a little odd, but since its not like a sky rig where a wide bridle would help a horseshoe i went with it cuz it was cleaner, and it would be really odd to have pins sewn to a 2" wide bridle. Its going to likely be a 2pin container with flex pins since they're a little more secure for this application. And as far as the video not sure what they were doing. Depends what clip you look at, some have nice openings, some have crap openings, some have lines through the rings, others don't. I'll definitely be using a tailgate on mine, and my risers are built with the line release loop. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Went with rubber bands, and heres what I arrived at. Went with a tail pocket style line stow pouch since its much easier to pack, and didn't make it a molar bag for the same reason. Only the locking stows are done in the pic though. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

It will probably be used for acrobatics, paraglider rollovers/dbags from hot air balloons etc, where the likelihood of something going wrong is much higher, and you wouldn't want to ride a round, and just for fun of course If everything goes right and I'm coming into a nice grassy field from 500 I highly doubt I'd land the paraglider So for the occasions when I use it I will swap my base canopy over from my base rig to the container and back afterwards. Not sure on legality as far as USHPA goes, as far as use in comps or something like that? The inspiration comes from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYKBOa6VZY apparently its sort of for sale, but insanely expensive as you need to buy a canopy with it etc. And id rather have a go at it myself "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

I'm currently building a cutaway harness for a paraglider so instead of a throw out round reserve, you can cut away to a ram air (base canopy) with a MARD style system. Its a single handle system (the cutaway handle gets rid of the glider and opens the reserve container/pulls it to line stretch) I'm building the free bag right now, and I'm basing the design off a sky rig free bag, but I'm going back and forth on what to do for the 2 locking stows. Not sure if I should do it like a safety stow, or just 2 rubber bands like a D-bag. I'm not worried about the rubber bands hanging up, I'm more worried about them breaking prematurely and getting bag strip. Any thoughts? "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

There are the vector 2 stow bags with 2 locking stows, and there are true stowless bags using either magnets or tuck tabs to close the bag with no stows at all. Direct slider control on a base canopy is actually rubber banding part of the slider to I believe a D line (I don't do this myself) and indirect slider control is taking a bight of the lines which stages the deployment (keeps the slider from creeping down before the canopy hits line stretch) "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Just take the canopy off risers and hook the links to a traction kite line set and go drag your ass around a field ; ) "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

These things are damn near worth their weight in gold, a box or two gets found deep in someones warehouse and pops up every once and a while though. I've seen people use an L-bar and an RW8/RW10 connected together with a short length of type 8 as a substitute. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

That hard housing grommet design does seem like a poor design, creating a situtaion where metal on metal could saw that loop in half like you experienced. Although the wear on the other white loop does look like packing wear as the damage looks like where the white loop would sit ontop of the small ring (where it would wear when the rig sits on the ground face down during packing) Sorry to hear about your poor experience with them though, but I dont think it would've been much different with any other manufacturer. Those white loops do freak me out though, espcially on my base gear. I understand the physics behind it, and that loop is FAR stronger than the few lbs actually applied to it. It's still kinda freaky "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

2012 dude, solar flares. Worlds ending. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Yeah, I understand that part, but ive always been told the stows take time to come off and keeps the drag of the D-bag and pilot chute over your head for a longer period of time it slows you down before the canopy comes out of the bag. Is this not the case? I hope what im trying to say makes sense... "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Haha, nice. I've always been taught that bad tension on the stows or the stows being way too short, doesn't allow any time for the deployment to slow down. Obviously in reading comments it opens just the same. So does it not really matter how fast lines come off then? Or is there still some pressure on the lines created by the packjob pushing on it? Thanks. Nick "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

So what prevents a hard opening? Pressure of the canopy on the lines? Or is line dump causing a hard opening just a myth? "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

So pretty similar to a PF tracking suit vent? Just more rigid? It seems like the PF suit vents have inlets cut in the actual jacket, and then have another piece of material sewn over them, and are bar tacked at intervals to create a narrow scoop. "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Hey! Cool, ive seen the vids on youtube a while back, looked pretty good. I've made a few traction kites a few years back prior to skydiving, and them some freefly suits. The pants are actually coming along pretty well. Its just the inlets i seem to be having trouble with. I have a feeling I'll be doing a lot of riding around in the back of a pickup truck in the parking lot ;) lol "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.

Yes, which is why I decided to hang up the suit, it was fun and went off without a hitch, easy to fly, but itd be the smartest choice to wait. I'm in the U.S. in Colorado, I appreciate the offer though =) I'll keep you posted on the progress of the suit, i have the right leg done and after I post this will start on the left leg. Blue skies! Nick "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well, have a good time." -CAKE I'm crazy not stupid. There is a difference.