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I had a couple of 90's and on the video, it looks as if the canopy was at 90 when starting to inflate, thus it did not turn into a 90. I then wathced another jumper, closing his bombproof rig, but he first close the bottom pin and then the top. I then tried it on my perigree-pro, and done 2 jumps so far...so good. It almost seemed a lot more accurate. (I know, it is still only 2 jumps...)

It looks to me as if one can position your canopy better in the container if you first close the bottom one. Shift, shake and move it till is +-100% alligned, and then close the top one.

Anybody any experience or comments on this?

I'm not the most experienced guy here, but I've had lots of experience with this particular issue in the last few months.

I was having chronic heading problems with my good rig (Ace 220 in a Warlock)... particularly slider-up. I talked to a whole bunch of folks and even posted a thread here on the topic. After trying everything that everyone suggested without any success, I decided to go back to the source... so I rewatched Vertigo's and CR's packing videos.

Vertigo's gave me the key bit of info that I needed and it looks like you have figured out... the way you close the pin rig makes a HUGE impact on heading performance. I've always gone bottom to top, for pretty much the same reasons you give, but I was threading the pullup cord through the grommets and just yanking the closing loop up through the grommets. As Jimmy said in the video, that will pretty much assure an offheading opening because the sides of the rig will pull asymmetrically on the pack job and distort it.

So when I started working the flaps together by straddling the rig with my knees, keeping the pack job symmetric as I worked the flaps in toward each other, my heading performance improved.

And you're right... by closing the bottom flap first you get most of the packjob situated, the top part is prety much just folding in the rabbit ears and closing it off.

Cheers Dude,

I have done the knee thing as well, but NOT consistent. Maybe I should add it to the list of MUST-DO.

Thanks again

When you are narowwing up your canopy, make sure that you have narrowed it up to fit into the rig properly. If you take a look inside your container, you'll notice 2 stitch rows running up the sides of the pack tray. these stitch rows connects to container to the back pad. If your narrowed canopy extends way beyond these stitch rows when you lay your canopy in the container, then you are more likley to distort te pack job when you close the side flaps. A method I use when narrowing up my canopy is to make it as narrow as the tail pocket.
I can't speak for all the rigs out there but I designed the pack tray of the NEO to be as wide as the tail pockets in common use. I think that if you check out your rig you'll notice that the tail pocket is the determining width of your rig as well. Hope this helps