Originally Posted by
KiwiNedNZ
Because of the way the FAA do it now after the Hudson accident they approve a person with each specific harness and then send you paperwork for that specific combination of you and that harness. If you turn up to do a shoot and an FAA rep does a spot inspection and you are using a different harness to that mentioned in the approval doc then the operator is in deep ****e.
As defined in FAA Order 8900.4, already referenced and discussed above.
The Petzl Avao Bod International seems a near clone (or more likely the other way around, given Petzl's market leadership). Why not just get the Petzl?