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I was watching some old videos of a BASE jumper that came to Panama years ago and noticed that in all his jumps he throws a hand held PC then the PC pulls the d-bag out of the container and then the canopy, like a normal skydiving deployment, only difference was the hand held PC and the canopy inflating VERY fast.

So my question is do you people use d-bags? My thoughts are that you pack inside the container with no d-bag.

D-bag = black death.

Prone to off headings and how would YOU like bag lock at 200 ft?

That's why most hard core crew dogs use tailpockets like we do.

That about says it all.

Deployment Bags haven't been used in BASE for more than 10 years.

I'd bet that the guy who made those jumps watches those videos now, shakes his head and says "I can't believe I lived through that."

In BASE, D-Bag means "Direct Bag" an entirely different piece of gear (a direct bag is held by someone standing at the exit--it never leaves the object).

Don't even consider making a BASE jump with a deployment bag.

I dunno how old the videos are but I don't think they are 10 years old, maybe 8 or 7 years old but I am just guessing, gonna ask tommorrow.

PM me his name and I tell ya if we are talking about the same guy, and yes he is very talented and well-known.