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By Arrow IV
#1583893
... well not quite but I've seen all kinds of ways that people close the strap (and the knots the result when you use a different method and have to fiddle it through all kinds of metal pieces).

So: is there a most appropriate way of closing the waist strap?

Let's assume for simplicity sake it's the standard GA life vest, i.e, pulled over like a backpack, gas inflate on rope pull, belt-like strap going around the waist and closed in the front "somehow". Something like this https://www.flightstore.co.uk/pilot-supplies-c1/life-jackets-c160/v-one-seamax-professional-aircrew-lifejacket-p3166/s3461
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By PeteSpencer
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#1583919
My lifejackets have a metal link at each end of the waist strap which interlink with a satisfying 'clunk'.

The crotch strap then swings up from behind to click into a plastic buckle.

I know not of the fiddling and the knots of which you speak.

Peter :thumleft:
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By ChampChump
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#1583948
Looking at your link, the closure appears to have but one way to operate. Any variation would seem to take some pretty creative thinking.
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By mmcp42
#1583977
cockney steve wrote:When you design something that's "foolproof", a more sophisticated strain of fools rapidly emerges.

well to be fair they do outnumber us :)
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By GolfHotel
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mmcp42 wrote:
cockney steve wrote:When you design something that's "foolproof", a more sophisticated strain of fools rapidly emerges.

well to be fair they do outnumber us :)


Do we? or are we just more effective as us is more sofistitkeated.
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By GolfHotel
#1584019
mmcp42 wrote:
cockney steve wrote:When you design something that's "foolproof", a more sophisticated strain of fools rapidly emerges.

well to be fair they do outnumber us :)


Do we? or are we just more effective as us is more sofistitkeated.
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By Paul_Sengupta
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#1584034
I have two lifejackets. One had the metal buckle as mentioned, the other had a plastic clip, like on the straps on an aeroplane cover. I always give my passengers the one with the plastic clip as it's fairly foolproof. The one with the metal buckle isn't immediately obvious to someone who's never seen one before.
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By Pete L
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#1584069
When did Ryanair start hiding the lifejacket in the overhead? Or is that a modern Boeing feature? (I'm perhaps not the only paranoid person that wants to check if the lifejacket is still present :oops: ).
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By kanga
#1584143
Pete L wrote:When did Ryanair start hiding the lifejacket in the overhead? ...


they only carry one per aircraft, now ? Is it auctioned when the imminent ditching is declared ? :)
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By Crash one
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cockney steve wrote:When you design something that's "foolproof", a more sophisticated strain of fools rapidly emerges.


I completely wasted 40 years of my working life designing things to be foolproof., with no success.
I am now a retired complete failure, and very happy to be so.
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