Flat Packing
Flat Packing a BASE canopy, step by step…
Flat Packing
Of course you can’t learn to pack your life-saving parachute from a video, but they are a useful reference and background material. Practice makes perfect, it’s worth repeating to improve your efficiency, neatness and confidence.
Packing Stages
- Using weights and clamps
- Keeping it neat
- Tips
- Line check
- Setting brakes
- Laying out the canopy
- Flaking
- Using clamps on tabs
- Cleaning up the lines
- Neatening the attachment points
- Aligning seams in the tail
- Attaching the tailgate
- Stowing lines in the tail pocket
- Reduction folds
- Routing the bridle
- Closing the container
- Pin orientation
- Packing the pilot chute
- Accounting for your tools
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- WS Deployments Video - 23rd November 2017