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  Out of curiosity more than practicality... How many times are you comfortable changing pack configurations and reclosing before a complete fresh pack is required?

If reconfiguring ends up happening over and over and over and over and over and over and over ...... <beathe> and over and over and over and over and over again... it might piss my off and being pissed isn't comfortable.

Besides that, it doesn't matter.

You forgot the option: "I don't feel comfortable doing it at all and repack every time"
....... Unless I misunderstood the question.

For me it's a matter or direction. I'll take a SD rig and pull it up to go to a terminal jump. If I don't end up getting a terminal jump, I'll repack rather than just pulling the slider back down.

you take your skydive rig to terminal jumps?

SD= SLIDER DOWN

....."errrr I'll have 2 of whatever he's having..."
Later
Blair

I think some of it depends on the object too. While at Bridge Day, I've taken my SU pack job and pulled the slider down, expecting to jump another object in the area. Then when the winds weren't right, I put the slider back up in prep. for jumping on Saturday. But Bridge Day is one of the few objects where heading performance wasn't crucial to me.

Had it been a different object, I would have repacked when putting the slider back up. I ususally don't sweat going from SU to SD without repacking. But going the other way, I would repack.

Definitely depends on the object. If I'm comfortable with a possible off-heading, this is a short list of objects, I'd do it. But, I'm also a slider off or slider up kind of guy. I don't do slider down jumps.

Yep - I'd just as soon be slider off instead of slider down too. Removing the slider definately calls for a repack.

If the location dictates slider down, then I'll remove it. If the location has variable objects - like Bridge Day or the potatoe bridge, then I'll leave it on and move it up or down.