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Excepting round shape reserve I agree. I can't see nothing complicated with square shape reserves. I prefer normal fabric not LPV.

No RSL, no MARD, just good training in the harness. Good plan of the skydive and altitude awareness. Don't think about marketing bullshit which never could be better that respect and the training.

But we are talking about totally different solutions. Parachutes de France choose the way to solve the problem of one riser RSL connection. They have in LOR2 two pins, you have to have both risers disconnected to open reserve container. Racer double RSL is something really sick. RSL is the system for idiots, who forgot to pull reserve handle after cut away so Racer double RSL is for no-one, to survive users have to remember about sequence, idiots could be dead. So PdF - two pins. One is removed = no action, two are removed RPC activation. It's AND PL - Left or right riser is going to remove pin = action. It's OR Drastic difference.

Have you found some time to contact Mars? What was the reason that you started this research?

What about low altitude malfunction? After collision, after wrong assuming of main canopy state (like bow tie lineover) If student can't handle with altimeter maybe skydiving it's not activity for him/her? IMO square canopies - altimeter obligatory for skydive

I can't agree. I think we need to hear if someone is yelling in the air, before the collision. I'm almost 30 years in skydiving, many years I've spent in An-2. Something like 12k skydives + lot of hours on my motorbike, also without earplugs. Also I'm using earplugs, they are really good for sleeping. About 20 years without any problems. So, if you are alone in the air or on the road, then earplugs are OK. If not..maybe one day your ears could be very important for saving life information.

I agree. Use the D-bag originally from manufacturer. Pack 50 times under some supervising, then repeat hundred times more and the problem vanish. If not, pack hundred times more. When you are packing only after jump it's not efficient like spending few days concentrated only on packing process. Do not find shortcuts for your skills, it's almost always dead end

I've been watching stowless bag without magnets, quite smart idea, for more than 3 years of hard work on DZ. Without any problems.

Yes. Everything was like manual of the rig says. I can see the problem with the shape of BOC pocket, the hackey w/o lock and ZP pilotchute. I don't feel smarter then manufacturer but I think that bigger pilotchute made from F111 could better work with hackey handle

I saw this equipment. Nothing wrong. About freefall speed, I agree, one of very important factors. But pocket of BOC excellent.

Are you sure that risers are original? Some manufacturers have RSL on left, some on right side. If you have different risers and you are using left, for the right side then the ring for connector could be outside

RMURRAY, It is simple answer. I agree. I also can noticed that skydivers are more, and more stupid. Spending fortunes for tickets, fortunes for rigs, they are trying to save money on rubber bands. In fact stowlsess bag is not for free, also they have to spend another extra money. Maybe it's the fashion? The owner of such stowless bag looks to be smarter then the rest of using normal D-bags. J

I have some rigs for rent in my school, there are different manufacturers, different D-bags. I have two lazy bags, but any stowless. Dear skydivers, could you explain your choice? Why full magnets? Is it complicated to replace some rubbers sometimes?

I can understand normal lazy bags, as kind of evolution from freebag of reserve canopy, of the pocket on BASE canopy. Not like something for making shorter time of packing but the way of avoiding linetwists. But totally stowless bags, sorry, what for? Fashion? In this particular situation that was the chain of some factors, not only the problem of the stowless bag. Really important was the speed, kind of pilotchute and the hackey. But at the end the CUSTOMER was testing for his own money, the modern product which is not original part of the rig. So that is something we should start do discuss. Why people are going to test on his organism new parts, quite expensive ones, not tested earlier. To have less problems with packing?

We have no idea what kind of malfunction we can expect. After freefall collision or in another very stressful situation the unification (red pillow, metal D handle) can save our life. It is sad, but I think that skydivers have usually only one good groudn preparation for EP - during AFF course. Pillow for reserve it's for me one of dangerous directrions in the equipment evolution. When fashion and look is more important than thinking about critical situations