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I´ve been doing some research with a Safety Star packed without a slider into it´s regular freebag and with a 50kg load I´m getting depoyments in 43ft (filmed)

I guees I´d like to hear some opinions about using freebags for assisted jumps.

Thanks

Why do you want to use a freebag?

not a horrible idea, but...

I think Marta with Apex was doing those before my time. she stopped for a reason.

how's any different than a direct bag ?

maybe he is talking about a Static line with a freebag. the speed of the direct bag, without the reliability of the fixed extraction heading.

Thanks for the replies.

That´s right, the tests I´ve done are static line.

I do not know about direct bag. I´ve searched the articles on gear and couldn´t find info about it. How does it work and why its more reliable.

All advice is welcome.

Man, DBs are out there for ages. Better check with some Pros and don't try this alone at home :-)

Attached you find a DB fotoserie with a classic FOX 245 WL 0.83 at sealevel (of course :-) done in January 2000.

Johan Verfoort even did 20-22m for GO FAST meanwhile.

M.

kind of like when a holder drops your dbag which is still anchored to the exit point ? :)

Or maybe he will just realizing that putting handles on the freebag will solve the issue. (alternatively attach it at 2 corners, or just use a REALLY wide bridle)

oh wait, perhaps this thread is about reinventing the wheel :)

Thank you for the pixs.

No pros around! But I don´t want to reinvent the wheel... That´s why I´m asking you people; the knowledge is there and you´re the ones who have it. The direct bag approach looks very nice for low altitude jumps and low altitude is what I have available here in Uruguay. Any more advice?

Thanking you all once more, manchuso

I have read an article on using DB for
deployment and briefly owned one but
have not seen one used so please
take my thoughts lightly...

A canopy gets crammed when placed
into a skydiving d-bag. Direct bags are
much larger just like the pack tray of a
BASE rig.

Since the canopy can be put in the DB
with less manipulation it has a better
chance of being extracted symmetrically.

Also, the bag typically has both a lanyard
for attaching to a strong point as well as
2 handles with labels for someone to hold it.

From geometry we know 2 points determine
a line, while having only allows for rotation.

Impressive!

direct bags provide the quickest openings (for an already packed canopy) that are possible. The lowest jumps that I know of using the DB system is 95 feet over ground. water towers are commonly jumped using direct bags, or at least used to be.

the sleeve is a variation on the direct bag and is used in the Sorcerer rig. however, the sleeve was used for a period with base rigs but they turned out to cause a number of problems. there were a number of major accidents associated with extraction of the long bag from a base rig.