Re: [TomAiello] bridle sock = genius
TomAiello wrote:
Why not put the "sock" inside the BOC? It would look a lot like the system that Rob Jones worked on, oh, 15 years ago...
With the sock into the BOC the force to extract the brible may vary depends on the angle of extraction, big difference between the bridle friction on the container if you are head up or head down, wingsuit or slick ... Also the pins are getting out earlier with the action of the wind on the bridle with the sock close to the PC where it has to wait for the bridle to be unfold with the sock in the BOC.
@Colm: I've tested a lots of configurations and James Boole too, the worst we got was a 20kg force needed to extract thebridle, but to have this result you have to make a knot before putting the bridle in the sock.
If the folding is well made the maximum for to extract the bridle was 600g for me.
If I was warping the bridle around itself so a knot could (would) happened during extraction I got a 2kg force to extract the bridle, a PC extraction force is way over that, depends on it's size and speed of course.
@Yuri: the rubber band could work but the sock is I think better to avoid knots, during packing or extraction. The bridle has the tendancy to get out at once if it is not well fold, the folds have to be completly inside the sock. I think with a rubber band the unfolding would probably happends very offently at once.
I though about the bridle in the PC, it was the original James idea. At the end I though that the sock would not be as still as on the outside, the folding would be much complicated as the installation, and I found no real advantages to have it inside.
