Back When . . .
This person survived, "this era" of BASE jumping to become BASE 281 . . . NickD
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NickD
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And I spent all that money on BASE gear!?
Re: [freeflyz] Back When . . .
Here's a bit of follow-up. I took that photograph at BD '86. And it "was" an accepted way of modifying a skydiving rig for BASE jumping at the time. The canopy is free packed no tailpocket; the lines are just coiled in the bottom of the container.
It made it easier to close without, being too tight, if you'd packed it tight enough to not have any canopy showing, you could then lift the rig off the ground by the bridle. The canopy isn't in a bag, which at the time was the bigger of two evils.
When I look at it now I see the potential for that extra long closing loop (people were selling them) to go whipping through all those grommets so fast, because of the big BASE pilot chute attached, that it wouldn't be too hard to suck some F-111 through a grommet. Not to mention it just looks like doomsville.
Hence, the Yikes part . . .
NickD
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