Following on from Macs recent ressurection of some excellent pilot chute /AV pilot chutes thinkings....I'd thought I'd see what your current state of play is.
What do you do during packing, to keep you bridal deployment 'staged' through the PC grab and throw.
On a regular mushroom pc packjob my bridal is usually carefully S folded into the mesh ( using even length S folds) and the mesh wrapped fairly tight over the bridal creating the bridal/mesh wad...with the thinking that a compressed wad allows the S folded bridal to 'control' its extension as the PC moves further away from the jumper....rather than just release as soon as it gets free from the BOC and the ( loosely) wrapped mesh unfolds.
However Ive seen a few times how this still leads to some near misses ..in terms of S folded bridal releasing early, with no tension on it ....resulting in it flailing around the PC and flying higher than the still inflating PC ( giving rising to a potential PC choke situation)
Ive tried recently to decrement the S fold length so that the S fold length closer to the PC attachment is smaller than the length of the 'final' S fold ....with the thinking that this helps 'control' the bridal deployment even further and attempts to reduce the chances of too much bridal 'getting free' as it pays out during the PC throw.
It seems to work fine but I have nothing to say its better or worse...
Are there any tricks YOU do in packing the PC ( or stowing the bridal within the mesh or a pocket in the BOC) that you swear by....and if so why ?
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