Timeline for Whats the difference between a paragliding rescue chute and a parachute?
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| Feb 4, 2022 at 18:40 | comment | added | Turkeyphant | I think you need to be more specific. Skydiving reserves can be round or square and paragliding reserves, as you not, come in several different shapes. Furthermore, it depends what sort of deployment you are concerned about as well as risks such as downplaning. | |
| Feb 4, 2022 at 18:36 | comment | added | Turkeyphant | Paragliders are not rectangular in the way that skydiving canopies are. There is a very noticeable taper towards the wingtips. | |
| Dec 14, 2019 at 17:11 | comment | added | Andreas | and open faster I doubt that. Round canopies generally have a larger volume. If that is not a clue that it takes longer to open then I don't know what. Round canopies have less room for changing the opening speed, where as a square BASE canopy has loads of ways to speed up the opening process. | |
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| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | Dave Gremlin | @NtFreX I don't think the paraglider reserve would tear itself apart, I think the weaker paraglider reserve lines would exceed their breaking strain and would snap | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 16:02 | answer | added | quiet flyer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 15:47 | history | edited | NtFreX | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 28, 2019 at 15:11 | comment | added | NtFreX | @RonBeyer Thanks for your comment. I've heard that paragliding rescue chutes can't handle opening loads as big as parachutes. If one would cut he's paraglider and reaches terminal velocity a paragliding rescue chute would tear itself apart when opening. Do you know something about this issue? | |
| Oct 28, 2019 at 15:03 | comment | added | Ron Beyer | Paragliding chutes (and the rectangular chute) have a distinct feature, they move forward. Circular chutes have limited maneuverability in that they can turn a little bit, but they are mostly at the mercy of the wind and drop (relatively) straight down. Which one you need depends on what you need it to do, if you need to glide/steer to a specific landing area you need a "gliding chute", if you just want to cushion the touch down, a circular one is fine. | |
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