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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The lightweight Black Diamond ATC Pilot represents an advance in technology for the world of assisted braking devices. Providing an added level of security to your belay, the ATC Pilot threads similarly to other tubular belay devices and accommo- dates ropes from 8.7-10.5mm. The durable steel braking surface has no moving parts, and the smooth and secure control allows for gradual lowering. With an easy rope payout, the ATC Pilot makes single-pitch projecting burns less tiring for the belayer and more secure for the climber.
- Accommodates ropes from 8.7-10.5mm
- Provides an added level of security to single pitch belays
- Smooth rope payout
- Controlled lowering
- Steel construction
- Ergonomic, non-slip surface
- Single rope use
Comments
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.
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.