I have to say up front that I hate putting together plastic parachutes.

Because of that, What I usually do is take an Estes pre-made parachute, and keep switching it around to other rockets as I fly them. Of course, this means that parachute gets a lot of abuse, or it gets lost, or it just adds another step to prepping a rocket for launch.

I've built up a little stock pile of Estes, Quest, Fliskits, and Semroc chute kits. So, while I have some down time, I'm going to devote some time to getting these things built and out of the way.

The Estes chutes mostly now have the tyvek-like sticker with a hole in the middle that you tie a shroudline to. I like this, other than having to tie carpet string with my big fingers. The Semroc stickers have two laser cut holes in them, but the instructions on the chutes don't mention them, and just basically copies the Estes instructions of olde.

How are these holes supposed to be utilized? Or are they the vestigial remains of an experiment gone awry?

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