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When you pull the emergency handle it pulls the locking pin out of the stirrup and lets it drop away so that it cant get hung up on your reserve and prevent it deploying. [caption id="attachment_219" align="alignright" width="799" caption="Neat quick release for Foot stirup by SOL"][/caption]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAO9pakHlEM[/youtube]The day started when Bob cruised past my house on the way to Cromarty launch ahead of the expected southerly change, we talked on the radio with me giving wind speed and direction updates until my internet went down around 3pm. Bob or Jason went off to Crackers to see if i had come on there and I don't know what happened to them after that, shame they didn't wait some more My web came back on at quarter to 4 and I went straight to the BOM and it was on At Crackers SE 10-11 knots, I grabbed the wing and head straight for Crackers expecting to find the air full of wings. But I turned up on launch and it was just me. Read the rest of this entry »