FireBird Relax Troll User manual

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TROLL
+
TROLL MDV
BASE-Canopy with
Firebird
BASE Containersystem
RELAX

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Table of Contents Page:
1. Foreword 03
2. Warning 03
3. Technical Description 04-09
4. Packing the Troll 10-22
5. Packing the Relax 22-26
6. Extras 27
7. Service 28-30

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Foreword:
In this manual you will find only basic packing and rigging instructions. Base jumping is extremly dange-
rous. Make absolutely certain Base jumping is really what you want. Make at least 200 skydives. Take first
Base jump course from a competent qualified teacher or from VDO in Germany.
VDO:
Adress: Phone: Webadress:
Verband deutscher Objektspringer
Jürgen Mühling (0049)33932-72464 www.base-jump.de
Flugplatzstr. 3
16833 Fehrbellin / Germany
Warninglabel:
Never use this system unless you have read the Manual and Warninglabel.
And have completed the ground and air training!

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Front
Technical Description Troll 225
Mesh

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Technical Description Troll 245
Front
Mesh

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Technical Description Troll 265
Front
Mesh

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Technical Description Troll 290
Front
Mesh

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An option is our Troll MDV. The Canopy has a vented bottom Skin that improves low-Altitude
and no Slider opening Performance.
The vents reduce the Time between bottom Skin inflation and full pressurization. The vents are
made of Marquisette/Mesh Fabric used by Pilot chutes.
The Pressure inside of the Canopy is higher than on bottom Surface. The Air normaly escapes
through the vents. We added valves (sleeve type of valve) to prevent this Problem. The valves
allow the Air to enter inside the Canopy, but not to escape again.
The Glide Ratio of MDV Troll is the same than on normal, not vented Troll.
When Slider is used, it should have some „control“ during deployment. This can be obtained by
rubber banding the top of stowed Slider in a rubber band that is attached to a center „C“ line. It
is important to roll the nose of the canopy and stop tracking before deployment to prevent
hard openings.
MDV (Mono Directional Valves)

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OptionalbyallTroll Canopies,
Vented bottom Skin - Vtec Troll
1. Canopy linesA,B,C,Dmade of Dacron 525 lb - white.
2. Control lines, CenterC5+ D5 made of Dacron 600 lb- red or black.
CenterC5+D5 are called Tailgate friendlylines(TGF).
TGFlines black, Control linesred.
TGFlines red, Control linesblack.
Option:
Tailgate and MDV Option

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Slider:
The Troll comes as standard with a Mesh Slider There are different ways to use a Sli-
der. For example low altitute jumps did not need a slider. So you must remove it or do
the packjob with slider down. If you do slider down you also have to remove the stee-
ringlines of the guiding ring on the riser.
So there are many things about BASE packing and jumping we can not explain in this
manual. So we recomend that you use the VDO in germany and their instruction Pro-
gramm to be well prepared for your first jump.

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Packing
Setting the Brakes:
1. It is important to choose the right fingertraped point
on booth steeringlines. For different altitude you need
different settings.
Low altitude: Higher Brakesetting (1), use Tailgate, no
Slider and routing the Steeringlines outside the gui-
dingring on the riser. ( in case of a steeringlineover
malefunktion you can drop them and they are
completly released from your risers.
High altitude: Low Brakesetting (2), use slider.
2. Different to normal sportrisers is the additional loop
in picture (3). Take care to route it in the same way!
After that you can put in the toogle. And take care
that it is fixed on the velcro.
1
2
The lower part of the steeringline should be stowed
in the velcropocket next to the toogle.
3

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Packing
Setting the Brakes:
At least close the linepocket as shown in the picture.
Start the packing:
First be shure there is no damage or dirt in the cano-
py. It is helpfull to fix both risers with a clamp or cord
to be shure that there is no different length between
them.
Start the packing:
The Base pack job is like a regular reserve propack-
job. If you do not know how to pack a normal reserve,
ask for instruction by a certified Rigger or Baseinstruc-
tor.
For easy packing it is the best to hookup the canopy.
Flake out the inside of the canopy and place the Nose
(3cell left and 3cell right) open infront of the canopy.

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Here you can see how to pull out the inside fabric of
the canopy. Start with A line attachement to B line at-
tachement. Do this with both sides of the canopy.
Packing
Flake out the inside Fabric carefully all the way down
to the bottom of the canopy.
In the end all lines should stay in the middle of the
canopy. Important is to draw more attantion on the D-
lines and steeringlines to avoid a lineover Malefuncti-
on.

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Packing
Before you lay down the canopy on the ground place
the nose like in the picture. 3cells to the left and 3cells
to the right. Leave the middle cell in the center and
complete open.
Start on one side of the canopy to flake it out again,
but on the ground. It dosen‘t care wich side you start
with.
Follow the steps as shown on the picture.

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Packing
Be carefull that the inside of the canopy stays in positi-
on. Don‘t pull to much!
It is helpfull if you fix all the lines temporary with a pul-
lupcord or a clamp (remove all packingtools before
you finish the packjob) to keep them all in the center.
Here we are close to the middel only the tail need to
be fold on top.

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Packing
Here you can see left side already finished. The tail is
in the middle with the linepocket on top.
Now start with the right side and do the same again.
Be more carefull not to pull or move to much the left
side. Otherwise you need to check the left side again.

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Packing
Here it is the same technique as on page 15.

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Packing
If you folded both sides of the canopy it should look
like this. The fabric is symetricly folded on both sides
and the lines are clean in the middle.
Here you can see the tailgate in use.
Here is a closeup of the tailgate. When and where to
use you need basic training by a BASE instructor.

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Packing
Now fold the side of the packjob again in halfs to get it
tighter. It need to fit inside the container.
So check the wide of your container to see how far
you need to fold the canopy.
You have to fold both sides of the canopy. Here in the
picture is only left side. But you need to fold right side
aswell.

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Packing
After you did that you need to put around the middle of
the tail.
And wrap it tight around the canopy. Don‘t wrap the
nose too. The nose must stay outside!
S-fold the lower part inside under the tailpocket.