Someone wanted to know how this is rigged to you?
There is a special locking device that attaches the weapons carrying case to your parachute harness, attaches at the point of the two buckles. Your equipment lowering line is threaded through the strap on the uppper part of the case with the two buckles. Your lowering line also is attached to your rucksack.
Once you get your silk and check to make sure you have a good canopy and at about 100ft before landing, you lower your equipment.
First, you lower your rucksack, which is carried in front of you, on your legs. Then next you hit the release arm and the weapon's case slides down the twenty feet of your lowering line and rests ontop of your rucksack.
When you land, your gear is in a neat little pile. If it's too dark or the poo poo has hit the fan and it has suddenly become a two way shooting range, you just pull or trace your lowering line to get to your weapon and ruck.
Been there and done that many times but it REALLY REALLY sucks when you are burning in and forget to lower your stuff or it gets stuck and have to ride it in. Man, the is one hell of a landing!
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