Mar 14, 2002, 4:16 PM
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I've heard this mentioned a few time in canopy control discussions.
On the high performance canopies do you generally perform this with a harness shift, with the toggles or both? Seems a harness shift would be a safer way to start learning this than with the toggles.
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If you are talking about a flat turn this is achieved with the toggles. Go to half brakes and turn from there. Shifting in the harness causes the canopy to dive so that is not a flat turn. I have done a flat turn using brakes on a FX88 loaded at 1.9. So they are possible. I have also landed that canopy from half brakes in light wind without problems. I hope we are talking about the same thing, otherwise just ignore the post.
