Deployed old ballistic chute

[lamercyfly]

To all the trikers out there with past repack date parachutes fitted, just a heads up..

I had a 2003 repack (ie 15 years past expiry) chute. Wondered if it would still work so i deployed it (was no longer fitted to my trike).

It deployed flawlessly!! FLAWLESSLY!!!

Everything still 100%. 100 friggin %!!!

Dammit.

Where did the manufacturers get the 5 or 8 year repack from?? Mine was 15 friggin years PAST repack and it was still in 100% condition. What a shame to have removed it from my trike, and deployed it as an experiment..

Hope I've answered the question for many of you:))

Ps this message is not an instruction. It is simply my experi4nce. What you do with your parachute is your business

[Bosvark]

did you make a video?

[lamercyfly]

I asked 1 of my students to video it. Sadly he pushed 'take a picture' instead of 'take a video' ))

So I have a still pucture of a parachute canister standing on the ground

[Madman]