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Hello Facebook and welcome to, how to pack an RDS
So last time, the last video we did on the RDS was how to hook it up
so this is pretty much where we got to
So I've now got it on both my shoulders
I've just finished connecting the RDS
Before we get into packing it, it's nice now to just recheck again
to make sure, we can just with our thumbs give those a slide
and we just want to make sure that they're pulled all the way through
and they're not tucked back inside like that
We really want to avoid a ring fire
so we just give them a check, make sure they're all the way through
Same on the back
the front
cool
and we're good, so now we're ready to start packing
So again remembering we want the lanyard that's connected to our d-bag trailing
So it needs to be going out the back
Cool So I'm going to put it on my left shoulder, that's how I pack
We're going to throw it on your left shoulder all right depending on how you do it
I pack slider down as well
so what I like to do first is I'm gonna quarter the slider
All of this is the same and you might do things slightly different
but in general we just want to do what we normally do as if it was a regular slider
So we give that a nice quarter
Important here to make sure as well when we're quartering it, we're moving our hands around the front and the back of the slider
it can be easy to catch these
if we catch these, these obviously are our releases for the slider cutaway
so be careful not to catch that and pull them
So that's quite important
again we don't want one corner of our slider just popping off during opening
It's going to be a very bad opening if that happens
Cool so we're going to quarter our slider front and back
I'm just going to count out my cells
This is a Petra so there's gonna be nine
Just tidy them up quickly
Cool
So that's our nine cells there
at this point as well, just to make sure we've got it
I like to make sure we bring that slider and make sure it's quartered nicely as well
and then I'm gonna grab all that just give it a little shake
put it between my legs
Obviously this is a sail canopy so you can see when it moves
it kind of is a bit more solid
it's not going to be flopping around maybe like ZP, your regular ZP would
So it's going to pack a little bit differently
and here I'm just going to do what I normally would do, okay
I'm going to leave this lanyard for now just trailing down the bottom
I'm just going to pretend like this isn't even attached
and I'm just going to go through quarter that slider again
go through and tidy up my line groups
However you may do this it's just
The main thing is we're not changing anything with the RDS
the kind of tricky bit comes in just a second
So
I like to do
only a little bit when I'm packing to be honest
Here at Aerosports we make amazing canopies that just do all the work for you
So
it's better to keep it simple
Cool, just going to flake that in
making sure those line groups are on the outside
Just like you would on your pack job
Cool, slider's still quartered
Now you could also check just to make sure that those cutaway cables haven't moved
They're looking pretty good and the rings are sitting nice and even
Oh actually
I've forgotten one thing and this is the key thing
before we flake it in like that
this is when we're going to bring that lanyard and stick it over our shoulder
It needs to be coming up through the line groups
I'd gone off like it was a regular pack job, apologies
So that's all good though we're still flaked in
So this is the key thing we want to remember
lanyard coming up
and you can sling it over your shoulder, just to have it out of the way
This is going to be a little bit of personal preference
and it's going to take a little bit of time to figure out which side you like it sitting on
but when I pack
I put, when I put the canopy down I like the d-bag setting out to my right
Okay and that just works for me
So that's why I've got it coming around and sitting off to the right
if you like it over the left you might have it over the shoulder and slinging to the left or vice versa
So there we go, so now I'm going to grab that tail
making sure I keep tension
Another important thing to note, with this here
we want to give it a little bit of slack, okay, we don't want it completely tight
because if we see here, if I start pulling that, it starts pulling the slider up
and that's definitely what we don't want
it's going to pull it out of that nice quartering that we did before
and it can mess up the rest of the pack job
So remember we want to keep that nice and loose
so it keeps down
and we're not going to be pulling that slider up and out
Just going to grab that tail
I like to hold this all together, just to keep it together so it's not going to move apart
grab my tail
As this is a cross braced canopy
we're going to go for that center stitch as our center
and the warning label as well, same as a non-cross-based canopy
Cool
So now I'm just gonna hold that, pinch it
I can bring this off my shoulder
because now my hand here is holding it out of the way
and then I'm just going to sit it off to the side
so that I can get my tail around
I'm just going to push that nose in just a little bit
just a tiny bit, just so it helps the canopy come around
If we push that too much it's going to mess up any of the nice work we've done
That's pretty basic sort of knowledge
If you're at the stage where you're packing an RDS and you don't know that
maybe use a regular slider an RDS isn't just quite right for you just yet
Cool
So now I'm just going to bring this around
bringing that tail around
It's probably good to note now this is a 66 Petra
so it's probably going to look a little bit different to maybe how your pack job is
It's a small canopy but the principles are all the same
Then I'm just going to roll that a couple times down the bottom
you don't really need to see that but just a couple little rolls
There we go
So we've got that lanyard coming out we've not pulled it too much
because it pulls that slider on the inside and we've just got it resting over the top
Now I'm just going to get a bit of air out
This is easier on the smaller canopies
obviously
Cool, okay
that'll do for right now
We're just going to rest the canopy down
and this lanyard, like I said I like having it off to the right that's just the side I like to work on
we're gonna have that resting to the right, okay
and lucky for me there's no spaghetti not bad
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so
keeping this out to the side, what we want to do is cock our pilot chute
I'm just going to cock that
make sure it's all good to go
Now this is where, if you watched the last video I talked about this rubber band that I have on the end
Okay, this is personal preference
but this is how I like to stow the excess, okay
this bag also has it as well, it has a pocket
which you can also use
and I have seen other people
who stow the excess up the top
I'll explain why, once I pack it why I like this better
but for now we're just going to stow it, so this is the technique I use
rubber band closest to the d-bag and now I'm just going to do s-folds with the line
all the way
to where we meet
the two joining lanyards okay
and that's my perfect marker because I know that that is perfect for when I go to pack it
Okay so that's as far as I go
good to note here as well, I'm using a large band but it's been cut in half, just so it's not quite as strong
and then I like to give that just a double stow
and there we go that's our lanyard nice and tidy
Okay so now comes the point of putting it in the bag so we want to keep this out the side for now
I'm going to get in the way a little bit so it might be easier, Jen if you just come around and look down through there
Cool, so I'm just going to go through, get the air out of the canopy
I'm not going to tell you how to get the air out of your canopy, everyone's going to do this differently
some people might want to lie on it
I know some people, some swoopers who just lie on it because they're quite lazy and they like a little rest
Get all that air out
Okay
So now because this is a 66 I don't do that S-fold in, the canopy's quite small
So I'm just going to go through and do my one fold or two as opposed to a triple
a little bit of pressure on the knee
and this is where we've got to move this
So this is where that length that I was talking about between the
or how far we stow the lanyard
now this is just going to sit over the top
and we bring the bag around and that's it
and all of this we want to sit at the bottom
Well I've got it like this I can probably explain why I prefer this method personally
is I find when the d-bag's coming off
the lanyard's pulling that way, as opposed to pulling line across the top of the canopy
It's inevitable that if you jump in RDS you are most likely going to get line burn along the way
as soon as we've got line sitting across the canopy it's pretty much unavoidable
but we can try and mitigate it and sort of minimize that risk
so I've been using this system for many years now
and they're going to be people who probably disagree because they have, everyone has their own way
but I've had maybe line burn once or twice on five canopies I've owned so it works for me
I believe it would work for you if you want to try it so that's one way to do it
Now we're going to put it in the bag and this is basically just normal, we just want to keep that there
We're going to slide the bag over
and we just keep this all at the bottom
and we just want to make sure that bridal attachment is just getting tucked to the bottom
Okay
and then slide the bag in
and
that's pretty much it
so from here we can just go on and do our locking stows
When you do this it doesn't matter if you, if this sits in the center so much
sorry if this comes across to the side
but what I like to do this is two stows, so this is a semi stairless bag
So I'm going to give it a squeeze together
I like to squeeze it together with my knees
just tidy lines up
and just give a double stow
and because this is, if you've got a three-stow bag
then this is obviously going to be one side of the grommet, which is not a big deal
and then I'll put the second stow in
Cool
you can see I like my stove's quite small
no more than two fingers I recommend on any high performance canopy
That's what we recommend here as well so Leia, your Petra's, Sofia's and Sleia's
and then with this here, if you want
it's not too bad but I just tuck that away, just so it sits nice and flush
and we don't have any chance of grabbing this and pulling it out
So that's pretty much it, from here you just go and do your pack job as normal
So there's only really a couple of key points where you, you really have to change anything
and that's when I forgot actually
bringing that lanyard up putting it over your shoulder when you're ready to bring the tail up
or just before you flake it inwards or outwards, whatever you do
and then obviously how you want to stow the excess
I showed you the way I do it and then we have the other way actually
Now that we can see with the bag closed
if we had the excess, some people have the excess trailing out here still
and that's when you would s-fold it like I did
and instead of attaching it to the rubber band at the bottom, you could tuck it away in that pocket at the front
so most bags, this is a vector semi-stow less, so you can see there's a little pocket in there
and that is where you could put your excess and your lunch money if you want, I don't know
So that's pretty much it guys
Like I said though, if you are thinking about using an RDS
just be sure that you're comfortable, that you're, you know, you're not overwhelmed when it comes to opening
we don't want to get sort of focused on this system and forget about looking for traffic
So if you're at that point where you can only focus on this and you can't focus on what's around you
it might not be time to try and RDS yet
and also one of the big things to remember, as soon as we add more processes to our system
we increase the chance of things going wrong because there's more things that can go wrong
and obviously you can see from the way I've packed it
there's a line trailing across the top skin, you may cause damage to your canopy
and that's just how it is, that's what, that's the price you pay for that extra little bit of speed
So yeah, so that's packing it
Before we go there was a good question last week which I didn't cover
and it was, can you use an RDS on a non-cross braced canopy?
and the short answer is yeah you can
However, from a company standpoint and I believe most manufacturers would sort of advise the same
we haven't done a lot of testing or R&D on using RDS sliders on our non-cross-brace canopies
I know people that have but as we don't specifically design an RDS for say a crossfire 3
we can't officially say yeah go for it but it is possible in theory
so I hope that answers some people's, you know sort of answers that question for a few people
but yeah there we go
So yeah that's about it and if you are thinking about it just have a good think
and um cheers Dan
and enjoy, it is a nice system to use when you get used to it
So there you go
Thanks for joining and we'll see you next time