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Pro Pack: Home Page Parachute Maintenance

The document discusses maintaining parachutes by controlling fabric strength, porosity, and trim over time as these elements can degrade and affect safety. It describes a protocol for checking canopies that involves measuring porosity at multiple points, testing fabric strength, and inspecting trim and lines.

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Pro Pack: Home Page Parachute Maintenance

The document discusses maintaining parachutes by controlling fabric strength, porosity, and trim over time as these elements can degrade and affect safety. It describes a protocol for checking canopies that involves measuring porosity at multiple points, testing fabric strength, and inspecting trim and lines.

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Pro Home page Parachute maintenance

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Fabric strength, porosity and trim are 3 things to watch for the life of your parachute,
especially when it is aging. These three elements, independent of each other, can undergo
perceptible variations to modify the performance of your canopy to the point of making it
dangerous for yourself. Indeed, UV exposure, humidity, a large wing loading, but also the
nature of the drop zone, are all external factors that will affect the aging of your equipment.

The control protocol put in place in my workshop ensures that the canopies (reserve and
main) are always able to perform their function, regardless of their age while respecting the
limitations of different manufacturers.

This protocol is articulated around these 3 poles:

Porosity control:

A complete "map" of the canopy is made


with a minimum of 18 measurement points
for a main and 75 for a reserve. The porosity
is measured using a MK2 porosimeter
developed with the Swiss company JDC.
This is particularly suitable for zero porosity
and low porosity fabrics used in the
manufacture of parachutes.

Control of fabric strength :

The ability of a fabric to withstand the


various over-pressures generated by the
opening, or a setting on speed is a
guarantee of safety and must be controlled.
Indeed, the fabrics of the same canopy,
depending on their color, do not care in the
same way and may, depending on the case,
have a degradation such that they do not
resist these over pressures.

Trim control:

Obviously the performance of a canopy are


also related to the trim thereof and the
physical state of the lines. It is therefore
important to associate this criterion with the
two previous ones in order to have a global
image of the controlled canopy and to take
a decision adapted as to its becoming.

You want to have your canopy checked or


want more information about the protocol, Contact
contact me.

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