Jan 2, 2008, 5:01 PM
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I own a M3 with a Spectra 190. I have never done CRW but it is something I think I would like to investigate. Are there specific canopies for CRW? What would be the best type (7 cell vs 9 cell)? Is there a specific wing load that is optimal?
Are there schools that specialize in CRW. I have taken a canopy course with Scott Miller. We did not however discuss CRW. We did discuss swooping which is something I have no interest in.
I did a search but most of the stuff was over a year old. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Jan 3, 2008, 12:56 AM
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Re: [jojo69] equipment and training questions
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You want a 7cell for crw. The lightning is the canopy of choice, some other canopies are jumped too. You can do casual crw with your spectre too but a real crw setup is safer. The wingload depends on what the others are flying, currently 1.3-1.4 seems to be used a lot but if you're not ready for the "common" wingload then the other(s) will probably adjust to you. Searching posts from a year old is fine, the info stays fairly current.
Jan 3, 2008, 6:44 PM
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Thank you both for answering my basic questions. As my jump numbers show I am still in the begining of my learning curve and want to be safe much more than cool.
Jan 5, 2008, 9:12 PM
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I am hoping to be in Florida for a little while soon. I often have to travel between GA and FL for work. I need to come to Z hills to see Mike Michigan for a refit of a jump suit. I will try to contact you with a date. Thank you
Jan 6, 2008, 7:22 AM
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Thank you Saskia!
That was an interesting and memorable jump. As far as I know I think that's the only time that formation has ever been built. We built it with PD XC-107's during an 8-way speed practice in Lake Wales in 2004. It wasn't easy.
Jan 8, 2008, 9:13 AM
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What canopy is an XC? Never heard of that, PD Don't know it, Google doesn't ..
Good question. Maybe Raul made a typo? I dunno, but I do know that PD has overhauled or redesigned the Lightning, and there are jumpers out there racking up test jumps on the new version. I just don't think it was out in 2004.
Jan 8, 2008, 12:30 PM
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What canopy is an XC? Never heard of that, PD Don't know it, Google doesn't ..
April is correct. The "XC" is PD's designation for eXperimental Canopy. PD usually takes quite a bit of time testing new canopies before bringing them to market. These are the next generation of CRW canopies from PD. Sometimes they refer to them as "Lightning II" or "The Storm" which, at the moment, are the tentative marketing names for the canopies. We jumped them at the 2004 World Championships in Croatia. The same thing happened back in the 1980's when we were jumping the experimental version of the Ligntnings long before they had a name. As in 2004, back in 1990 we also had a chance to compete at the World Championships in Thailand with the canopies before they had a name.
Jan 26, 2008, 2:38 PM
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"The data on the MiG are inaccurate."
The XC is not "the next generation of CRW canopies" so much as an all-around canopy that happens to also do CF quite well. It is not being marketed as a CRW canopy as that is not what it was primarily designed to do. I know that PD are NOT planning to call it "Lightning II" for just this reason.
Jan 26, 2008, 7:22 PM
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... I know that PD are NOT planning to call it "Lightning II" for just this reason.
Of course, PD will call it what ever they choose, but somehow I didn't take Chris' calling out "The next Storm jump is in ten minutes" on the armory PA real well. I'm not sure why ...
