Whooo Third time's a charm. How to hook up an RDS
How's it going guys
So today we're going to go through how to hook up your RDS, your full RDS
Right now it's just the slider
Slider like this, we just call it the removable slider but we're going to be going through
the whole system
I guess before we get into it
a couple things to think about
like who would use this, who would use a removable slider?
You could use when you get more experience
and generally when you're on a cross-bace canopy
a full RDS, which is when we want to remove the entire deployment system
So the d-bag is attached to the slider not the top of the canopy
That's going to be more aimed at your competition pilots and people doing XRW
where they really want that drag reduced
so let's start by setting this up so that it can be the full RDS
So what we need obviously is our d-bag
and when you order an RDS off us it comes with the three lines
So you have a long line and two short lines
So we start by connecting the two short lines
so we want to go over that and we're just larks heading it on
in no particular fashion. Pull that nice and tight so there's one
over with the second one
and through
So that's just a simple larks head and now we have our two sections like this
all connected
and then obviously we want to bring them to a point and we're going to connect it
to our long lanyard
so we do the same thing, just feed that through
and then we're gonna feed this through the end to lock it off
Cool. So now we have like our Y lanyard, is what I like to call it because it's a Y
and now we need to attach this end to our d-bag
You might notice or you might see other people who are experienced at the drop zone
they might have a swivel connected between the two points
that's just to stop any twisting
They are handy, however I've never had one because I'm just too lazy and haven't been to the shop to buy one
So same thing we feed it through and then we're gonna want to feed our d-bag through
Feed it all through
Now you might notice I have a rubber band down the bottom as well
That is what I use to stow the excess when I'm packing it
We're not going to get into packing today
but we are going to get into packing the RDS next time
As I struggle to get this through
So we are there
So there we have it, so that is our full RDS connected. So we have the removal slider
which we then have the two small lanyards connecting to the longer lanyard in the center
and then that trails all the way to our bridal attachment
so this is how it obviously comes off the top
so we don't need to have anything attached to the top of the canopy
So now we're going to hook it up I'm just going to leave this here because this is where I like to connect it
You can connect it down the bottom here but what I like to do is just purely for doing a continuity check
is I like to send my rings down
so make sure all my RDS rings are down
Also we've obviously already put our RDS rings on, we're not going to show you how to do that
If you're putting on the RDS and you're not sure you have any questions
always have someone double check your work
and definitely if you're unsure get a rigger to have a good look over it to make sure you've done it right
if you're that incompetent then maybe you shouldn't be jumping in RDS
all right so we've got all our rings down and now we're just going to do continuity check
like we normally would if it was a regular slider
just going to run it out make sure there's no twists
With the rings if we run it out like this it is easy for lines to wrap around and make a knot
So we definitely want to avoid that and we want to make sure the rings are nice and free moving
when we get all the way to the end of the canopy
Okay so it looks pretty good the rings are moving nice and smooth, there's no twists or anything in them
This is where I just put it on my shoulders, like so
Making sure everything's good and then I'm just going to grab my RDS like this
Okay so we've already done it, I've already done it obviously but we want to make sure
that we give these yellow cables a nice hard pull. Okay we don't want these being sat in or anything like that
because then we're going to increase the chance of one of the corners coming off during opening
Which we really don't want. It would be a mess
So do it same on the other end, give them a nice pull
also you can see here I've got some twists in my RDS
That's just from undoing it
What we can do as well, so we can see which way it is, and we can simply untwist
Okay it's just like our brake lines
So there we go that's better
Just like our brake lines, when we twist the line up it shortens it and if we shorten this it can start pulling the cable back through
Which again can increase the chance of having a ring fire, I guess you'd call it
So what I like to do is I'll work my way around the canopy
another key thing to remember here
Obviously this needs to be trailing, your d-bag needs to be trailing to the tail of the canopy
The tail is here, therefore we want our RDS to be facing that way okay
So that way it's trailing
So our tabs to the back
If you're just packing a removable
it's kind of nice to get in the habit of having your tabs to the tail as well
just for that way whenever you do go to attaching the full RDS, the full system
then you've always got it the right way
I would say common mistakes, I've never really seen anyone pack one upside down and if you have props to you
because it's really hard to do because you need to see it from this side
to fold that back to get into it
So we'll start by putting on one of the rings
So we're going to grab our ring
making sure we're not going through anything or put any twists in it
and we're simply gonna put
one through
You can put two through but it's gonna be easier to show you this way
So the loop comes through the RDS ring on the guide ring
We feed it through like that and we simply do the same
with the other
You can kind of see here why it's important to make sure we've pulled it all the way through
So that's gone through. With the excess there's a little channel on our RDS design
for the excess to go down and we want to make sure we tuck that away
and it's not going to snag or catch on anything
So that's one ring done
and we can make sure here it's free-flowing
There's no lines gone in between anything, nothing caught which can result in a pretty hefty malfunction
and then I'm going to move over to the right
I like to do front to back
and we're going to go same again
Making sure that's nice and all the way through
Making sure we're not catching any lines
I have seen this before catching lines like that
We definitely don't want that sort of stuff happening
and then we're going to feed in the second one
and I'm just going to feed it straight in
Cool and that's the front or the tail of it done as it were
The front in relation to where I'm looking at it
That's moving freely, that's moving freely. We can go ahead and do the others
again making sure we're not catching anything and making sure there's no twists or knots
and this time I'm going to go through both at the same time
Cool
and that's that side done, so we've done one entire side here
and it's looking pretty clear, it's good to go
and then I just work my way around
to the next side
feed it through
and there we have it
We've attached it and we're now ready to begin packing
So we can just give another double check just to make sure that our rings aren't caught up
this is definitely something that we want to make sure we avoid
that there's no knots
we're avoiding any sort of unnecessary tension knots or anything like that or any hang-ups
I guess now is a good point to remember, it's nice to take a little bit of extra time with this
obviously it's a lot more complicated than a regular slider
and as soon as we start adding more sort of procedures to anything we do
we need to take care that we're making sure they're right
With this, with this system it does increase the chance of sort of failure
and human error mainly is going to be the issue
cool so that's done, that's connected and we're good to go
like I said we'll show you how to pack it in the next video we do
The next live stream I'll go through just a couple of things that I like to do
Things to avoid line burn, obviously if we've got something like this hanging out
it can cause line burn on the canopy
we want to avoid that.
Unfortunately it will happen to you if you use this system but we can sort of minimize that by using different techniques
I think for the most part off the top of my head that's pretty much it
Just trying to think, yeah I think that's more or less it
So just remember if you're unsure when you're doing this, find someone on the drop zone who's experienced who can help you
Obviously the first time you hook it up, there's not a lot of information out there on how to do it
but there is some so you can find it and you can get help with it
yeah that's pretty much it
I think we're pretty good there guys
So I'll show you next time how to pack it and how to go through the system
and yeah we'll see you next time
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