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Do you feel that containers with open corners give you better on heading preformance, slider off and slider up?

which containers use open corners? What manufacturers. Thanks!

I'll try to post a picture of a open corner and a closed or semi-closed corner. I'll have to unpack one of my rigs though. I'll do that tomarrow morning. Off the top of my head I think that the Vision,Medusa, and the Wizard are all open corner containers. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong. (Tom)

dont unpack just to placate me Get a jump out of the packjob!

*edit - ok got the sarcasm finally...I'm a little slow

I have a Vertigo Warlock with the wingsuit mod. I don't fly wingsuits but I wanted the stiffened flap and open corner that the mod provides.

My rig is currently packed, so I can't provide a photo (sorry dude, but I ain't unpackin' & repackin' just for a photo op ). But basically, when my rig is open I can lie it completely flat on the floor. There is no pack tray that sticks up.

Ok, so youre saying instead of the packjob having to be pulled out of the container, possibly distorting it and increasing the chances of an offheading opening, the container basically folds away from the packjob, letting it cleanly extract? Is this along the right lines? Sounds like a great idea.

I had to vote"i dont know any difference",as i wanted to see the result,and you didnt make a place to"i dont know shit,but wanna learn"..hehe(cant make smilies,so you´ll take my humor from my hehe... he he)

check these...from the Morpheus web site...

The open corners that I'm talking about , the packtray won't completely open and lie flat on the floor like the dynamic corners. Although I like the idea of that. I could try to explain it but I wouldn't do a very good job. I'll jump my Vision tomarrow morning and try and post a picture of a open corner. (picture is worth a thousand words) I was kind of hoping Tom would step in and explain it. He's good at that sort of stuff.

I think I know what you're talking about.

The bottom corners on older containers used to be sewn all the way up to the edge of the flap, forming an enclosed, "boxed-in" corner.

Most manufacturers started designing the side flap to wrap around the bottom flap, closing the corner. The thinking is that the open corner would allow the canopy to be extracted without a boxed-in corner possibly inducing a spin to the packjob as it leaves the pack tray. (It also helped with bridle routing for stowed jumps.)

With wingsuit flights becoming more common, a greater need was identified for a corner that would all but disappear during deployment since wingsuits were generating higher forward speeds at deployment.

Morpheous Technologies answered the call with their, "Dynamic corners". The corners allow the pack tray to completely open, leaving nothing to restrict the deploying canopy.

edit: can't type today!

That's exactly what I'm talking about! Thanks DexterBase .
I just wanted to see other jumpers view on this. I can't see any benefit to wraping the side flap around the bottom flap at the bottom corners of a container. Just my opinion.

A few weeks ago I checked out a beauty new Odyssey rig with 2-pins and open corners. The rig was purchased specifically for trip to Norway & bird-man flight (want canopy deploy from bottom)

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