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Superior control with enhanced security. An all-new geometry assisted braking device, the ATC Pilot introduces a system that provides an added level of security to your belay, while allowing for smooth rope payout.

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In reply to UKC Gear:

If you need one hand on the device and one hand on the rope to lower, but the device is not 100% hands free - is there a possibility the rope could start to slide exponentially too fast? I mean probably not, but as you always normally lower with two hands on the dead rope it just made me wonder. 

In reply to purplemonkeyelephant:

When you say you "normally" lower with two hands on the dead rope, you're comparing it to what you know, which by the sound of it is a conventional tube device (ATC, etc). Assisted braking devices are in a different category: reducing friction in order to perform a lower always requires the use of one hand, whether pulling on a handle (as with a Gri Gri), rotating or squeezing the device. If the rope starts to move too fast, you simply do less of that movement.