In my preparation to a FJC I decided to do a couple of Hop ‘n Pop’s on my Troll 265. My exit weight with a student skydiving rig is around 200, which would put me on a 0.75 wing load. I also have the jumps on video (prove that I did not deploy on my back or anything stupid like that).

I did two jumps on the canopy from around 5,000ft. On the third pack the packer called me over. He pointed out to me that one of the lines was burnt. Under my inspection I noticed it was not just one of the break lines but in fact there were a couple of lines that were burnt. The burns were very noticeable and I do not think it would of passed Quality Control (If they have one) like it was. The packer who connected the canopy to the harness not the same that I used to packet it, said he would of definitely seen that when he put it onto the rig if it was there.

Now the thought’s are that it was not packed properly and there might have been a pressure not that burnt it. The Red line is the worst but there is a whole line set that is burnt at around the same place suggesting to me that if that was the case maybe the red break line rapped around an entire group set and burnt them. See figure 1.

Figure 1

In closer inspection I also noticed that some of the line attachment points have double attachments, which the lines are meant to run through both. One of the lines, I can not remember which one only ran through one of the double line attachment point.

I was informed by the distributor that it was for reinforcing as those take more impact than the others.

I was told that it was the packers fault for not packing the canopy properly, however the lines were replaced free of charge and the one line that went through only one line attachment point was also fixed.

Any thought’s on the burnt lines?