BurbleBoi

Jump 50 something was loaned a Sabre 170 to taste downsizing. First jump, just above pattern height, I decided to try some “reverse turns”. Got a bit too deep on the toggle on the 3rd turn, and it just snapped 360 degrees into a line twist. 
 

The feeling of being spun up under 1,000’ isn’t something I care to experience ever again.

Several thousand jumps later, I was filming tandems. On opening and doing my housekeeping after my 6th jump of the day, I felt a little tingle, like my routine and practically subconscious chest-strap unbuckling procedure had felt different this time somehow.

on review of hand cam footage, my chest strap was misrouted. Through the buckle and folded excess stowed in a rubber band.

 

Don’t do either of those. 

Yes. It works.

Source: I jump a sabre1 120 in my WS rig. No slider pocket mod needed, smooth but positive and on heading openings.

There are some (tandem) canopies that require stowing a bight of excess brake line above the slider on rubber bands attached to the inside rear suspension lines.

If your fear is a lineover, consider that when a certain video of intentionally packed malfunctions was being produced, they had an incredibly difficult time trying to force a lineover malfunction because they clear themselves pretty much always. They wound up actually sewing the brake line to the nose to achieve the mal for the video.

As a packer for several seasons, I had exactly one customer come to me with a band on their slider asking me to stow brake line on it. It was a Sabre1. I didn’t argue, but I also jump one and take other steps to ensure a soft opening...I don’t feel like adding complexity to a system makes it any safer or less prone to malfunction.

Slider down/off BASE is a different environment than skydiving.

BAS does not operate a SkyVan.

I would be on time for work today if that were the case.

Keen 'n Able

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