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When attaching the flap to the bridle, which end goes to the parachute? The sewn in end or the floating end?

Sewn to canopy floating to PC

Thanks. I had a 50/50 shot. Got it rite this time. Even a blind squirrel.....

Yikes.

I think you should probably have an understanding of what a shrivel flap does and how it works before you go about installing one. It's not just about blindly following instructions.

Seems a person is always gonna open themselves up to these types of criticisms whenever they seek advice. Yep, I do have a basic understanding of this. Hence my correct routing. My self deprecating attempt at humor simply gave the Trolls another opportunity to show that Trolls will be Trolls.
Thank You Dr. Opzone for your straight forward and informative advice.
The others may move on now....

You didn't give any indication that you knew how a shrivel flap works, so people expressed concern - that's hardly trolling.

This thread is nice and easy to follow.

indeed.

don't mind the pontificators and mother hens clucking their supercilious disapproval; you asked a straightforward question and fortunately received a straightforward answer that confirmed your own analysis.

Funny thing is, mother hen may never have even jumped a shrivel flap rig... they are kinda rare now given how pin rigs have reasserted themselves, and this may be the only place you can conveniently go to find info and answers about them.

Irony alert: Mark Hewitt created the Sorcerer back in the early 1990s when shrivel flap rigs were the standard and you should seen all the clucking and snarling and sniveling about his "death pin" rig from all the mother hens and pontificators who declared that pin rigs were not safe for base.

now they cluck because someone does due diligence on the this forum instead of winging it. some poop never changes...


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Thank You! My faith has been restored and great to know I'm not the only 1 seeing things this way. Keep an eye out for my next BIG thing.
Yeah, there will be haters........

The way I see it Barron, you were trolling.
tcs

Kinda baffles me that you think Shreddy was hating

No, I was definitely hating.

I'd never jump a velcro rig. Hell I refuse to even jump on any load where one is present. I'd rather sit at home by myself and watch Honey Booboo reruns than climb 2000 feet up some antenna only to watch you go in with a horseshoe just because you found a good deal on that ragged out neon green and purple camo Perigree II that only made sense in the middle of an acid-trip sometime back in the early 90s.

Get with the 21st century people! Grow up! You know how everyone stops wearing those shoes with the velcro straps when when they're like seven years old? Well you guys are like those weirdos who still wear them well into their teens because they're too dumb to figure out how to tie their own shoelaces.

Those things are the AARP card of BASE jumping. The one time I jumped with someone who had a velcro rig, we went to grab breakfast afterwards at the Denny's down the road and the waitress accepted a brief glance at his shrivel flap as proof of his age and let him order from the 55+ menu.

Just like suspenders over loose fitting short sleeved dress shirts, velcro containers only show that you're too geriatric to think clearly. If you think that the same shit you use to tighten your baseball cap onto your head has any place as a safety mechanism on a real base jump, then do everyone a favor and get the hell out of the sport before you bounce, because then just we're gonna have to start another velcro-hatefest of a thread when you go in because you were an old blind squirrel who played the odds and lost when you installed your shrivel flap backwards and deployed head low when you were trying to do front flips at the Perrine. And I'm sick of having to debate this issue when it should be clear to everyone who isn't old enough to have voted for Richard Nixon that velcro rigs are nothing more than death sandwiches that only still exist because of broke college student base jumpers with a death wish and nostalgic blue-hairs who won't let go of the past.

I disagree with almost everything you said but I loved the rant. Bonus points for execution.

Most of my first 50'ish jumps were on a Velcro rig & I'm still here. As long as the Velcro is fresh/freshly replaced, they're all good. That said, I wouldn't do any head-down freeflying on one.

nicely done.

I saw this gnarly video of some serious PC hesitation from a rig that had had the velcro replaced. It was off the KL tower. I'm not sure what the PC size was, but it made me weary of completely trusting even a well maintained velcro rig.

You could always find a decent rigger and convert it to a pin rig. I've done quite a few over the years.

Or even better would be to buy a sewing machine do it yourself.

But then the question would change to "When attaching the bridle, which end goes to the parachute?".
Tcs

That's some funny Shit. I'm headed to Denny's for my discounted breakfast right now!

I disagree with almost everything I said too, but I loved coming up with it

In fact now that I have all of you Velcro-lovers' attention, I'm going to be all ironic and ask whether any of you happen to have an extra Velcro rig lying around that isn't seeing much action these days?

I happen to have extremely convenient access to altitude for just the next month or so, and I'm hunting for a second rig to rent/borrow during that time so that I can take twice as much advantage of the circumstances.

Pm me if you do. Thanks!

Be advised though, they don't accept shrivel flaps installed backwards...

Just do a floater exit ;-)
tcs