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Here’s a story just a few people know about. That’s the story of why I choose to leave my military life and go neck deep into rigging. There were not many opportunities to jump as a civilian in the beginning of the century in Bulgaria. Actually, there was only one place that was organizing jumps one weekend every month in the summer. And in order to jump there, you had to share the gear with everyone else who wanted to jump. And usually that was some beat-up accuracy system without an AAD. That was if you were good enough to jump with a “square”. If you were a student like me, you were challenging the gravity with a round on your back and a chest mounted reserve in front.  At that time, very few people had their own gear. As soon as I became “good enough” you should read this as able to deploy somehow stable and mostly at the correct altitude,...

On the 26th November KNVvL grounded all Icon rigs. Over the last 2 weeks many of my customers with Icon rigs contacted me with request to modify their rigs (as per KNVvL VB 2021-05) so they can jump again. I’m making my respond to them public, because it will simply save me time from not having to explain it again next time. Here was my respond to all of them. WAIT! That’s right. Just wait! It’s winter and you won’t miss much jumping anyway. First of all, let’s see what’s the reported problem. The reported problem is that in some rig sizes in case of AAD fire, if the cutter is located under the reserve pilot chute, the tail of the loop that’s been cut could be long enough to trap the reserve pilot chute inside the flaps. That’s a known problem in the industry. Many other brands suffered from that exact problem 15+ years ago. By putting the cutter on top of the reserve pilot chute, the loop is kept as short as...