Re: [MarkSin] Strange packjob
Martin Tilley of
AsylumBASE introduced that pack job many years ago. It's slowly being used by more and more people.
About 4 years ago I watched an employee of Asylum (prior to them splitting off from Consolidated Rigging) perform that pack job. It made sense so I adopted it from then on and modified it a little.
As it was shown to me, the parachute is propacked as usual, the tail flaked out as usual. Long fold the each side of the tail upward then wrap the rest of the tail around only the tail.
take the a-b. b-c, c-d folds and long fold them in half, then up over the top of the tail.
The variant I'm using is longfolding the c-d and flaked tail at the same time. Then wrapping the tail around the C-D Tail bundle. The A-B and B-C group is then long folded in half like before and then over the tail.
It's very easy to control the canopy this way. It also encourages nose first inflation. The Nose and Tail have little chance of interfering with each other so it assists with lineover prevention as well.
It's the same pack job I use slider up and down no matter what the delay. Nose control is the only change depending on the delay.
If you watch it from the top on a go and throw, it's easy to see it start to unfold in the back. The tail pretty much stays put until the canopy begins to inflate and then blammo.
I passed the pack job on to several people that use it now. According to Tom, Yuri was one of the first people to use it but I don't know where he learned it.
Perhaps Martin will comment on it?
