Canopy Trim: Brake settings #1 & #2

[guest]

Hi there!
Just having flicked a low object here in the Italian territory with a no slider jump from 128 m  420, I was wondering about brake settings. Let us define brake setting #1 (the one closest to the toggle) the shallow setting and brake setting #2 (the one farest from the toggle) the deep setting. Unless there is something unusual in the jump, you normally set the brakes at #1 if you are doing a slider up jump and set the brakes at #2 if you are doing a no slider jump. Setting #2 SHOULD be deeper than setting #1.
But, please, consider the following.
Situation 1: Imagine to have just deployed a slider up canopy with brakes set at #1 and imagine to fly for a while like this, without touching your toggles.
Situation 2: Now, imagine to magically (I do not how, but this is just imagination!) route (without touching the toggles) the control lines out of the keeper rings on the risers AND out of the slider grommets: now you are flying, de facto, a no slider canopy with brakes at #1.
But in situation 2, your canopy is actually less slowed down, less braked than it is in situation 1.
In situation 1 the lines have to go straight from canopy down to slider grommets, make a turn and then to go from slider grommets straight to the toggles, so in case of situation 1, the lines must do a path that I call path 1.
In situation 2 the lines have to go straight from canopy down to the toggles, so in case of situation 2, the lines must do a path that I call path 2.
But being the lines the same length in situation 1 and in situation 2, you have simply that in situation 2 the canopy is less braked than it is in situation 1.
I know now that the old timer of BASE jump will tell me: Hey, dude, you didnt discover anything new&!.
To make short a long story.
My point is the following.
Do not you think that most of the length of line between setting #1 and setting #2 (that makes #2 deeper than #1) is lost because of the shorter route of the control lines that you have in a no slider canopy?
Do not you think that to fly a braked canopy with slider and brakes at #1 be nearly the same as to fly a braked canopy with NO slider and brakes at #2?
Do not you think that a braked canopy with slider and brakes at #1 has a very similar trim as a braked canopy with NO slider and brakes at #2?
Do not you think that, in the end, the fact of routing the control lines out of slider grommets and keeper rings (MANDATORY in a NO slider jump) destroys nearly all the difference on the line between #1 and #2 brake settings?
Thank you so much for your precious comments (as usual&!)! :D
Blue Skies :-)
Andrea

[guest]

The best way to figure out your brake settings is to actually test them making skydives. This should actually be done prior to base jumping your canopy in case they are too deep, possibly causing stalls on opening. CR has a detailed method of testing this. You can simply find out for yourself if that theory is true.;-)
Jason