slider down gives softer openings than slider off
The slider keeps the risers from spreading as far as they would with the slider off. Does this result in a slightly softer opening when your canopy "cracks" open? Basejumper.com - archive
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Re: [AdamLanes] slider down gives softer openings than slider off
AdamLanes wrote:
The slider keeps the risers from spreading as far as they would with the slider off. Does this result in a slightly softer opening when your canopy "cracks" open?
a) I am guessing you meant SLIDER OFF, not DOWN :)
b) in my experience unless it's a 0 delay (PCA/SL/some sort of unpacked jump) subterminal slider up is softer
Re: [vid666] slider down gives softer openings than slider off
This poll is about whether the reduction in riser spread on opening due to a slider down configuration results in a softer opening than when the slider is removed and the risers spread fully on opening.
Re: [AdamLanes] slider down gives softer openings than slider off
i voted yes,based on THOURGHTS not experience. I ALWAYS jump whith out the slider,i simply like the wing better that way.
The reasson i voted yes were as i think that forcing the risers to a straight pull in your harness and therefore a more tight possition teorethic should give you a slight more soft opening...
My thourghts are that even as you MAY get a softer opening its not as much different that you will notice it at all..
Slider down/off means you want your canopy out now and not tomo..You´ll get used to it
