On Jan 13, 11:13*am, Tuno wrote:
Are you referring to sport parachutes or emergency pilot parachutes?

Are you referring to the parachutes themselves, or the harness/
container systems they get packed in and deployed from?

I've not seen a conventional system that could not be deployed with a
static line -- afaik they are all manufactured the same, so I'm
curious about what you've seen in Europe.

~ted/2NO (recovered parachutist)


Tuno,

yes, I was referring to emergency chutes used in gliders.
When I was a student in the old country, we used to have the
Brueggemann & Brand (now Mertens) back pack types, that had the static
line packed in the back. The line was about 20ft long and got attached
to the hard points of the glider (the red rings installed in most
European gliders). If you have a look at http://www.fallschirm.de/index-Dateien/Page692.htm,
you can see a static line type chute that is used with a harness and
one chair-chute type, that is shown with a conversion kit to make it a
static line chute.
I am looking for a US manufacturer of this type of chutes.

Uli