Hellfish, I wore a slimpack every flight i did, around 1200 of them.
out of all those flights, i thought i had to use only the once. Without going into too much detail, the reason that you wear them is not because of the plane. When a skydiver deployes his/her shute, a pilot shute is thrown to catch the air, which then pulls out the main parachute. These pilot shutes have in the past deployed prematurely. Catching the airflow and headed straight for the tail! It goes over the tail, skydiver goes under. No more tail feathers! So i figured, if it can take the tail off a caravan, it can take the tail off anything!
My advise, they may be uncomfortable, and they may only be an old army roundy! But just may save your life.
Felt kinda strange after I was no longer meat bombing, flying without one
