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Originally Posted by CDRODA396
All the deployments look good...the load master releases a small pilot chute, which then pulls out the drogue chute attached to the first load. The drogue chute pulls the platform out and then the chutes, then breaks free. You can see them (the drogue chutes) floating down all over the sky as the video rolls. The Support Platoon Leader used to have fits trying to find all of them after a heavy drop!
Anyway, when the first platform clears the ramp, it pulls the drogue chute out of the second platform... it takes a second or two to pull the next load out, then it breaks free...the interval between loads is determined by this process and looked good.
From the video, it looks pretty clear to me that in the two you can see, the issue was load attachment to the platform was poor and it came free, either during, or shortly after chute deployment.
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Thank you for the lesson, I'll look at it again.
Watch again on a larger screen the first two look like they separated from the pallet.
Thank you again.