How to slow down a hornet....

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I have a friend who is constently getting wacked by his hornet 170. he said he has tried everything.... i havnt packed it yet. but i was wondering if anyone had information on this canopy and what kind of packing would slow it down....

Pruitt

Skydive The Farm

[TALONSKY 0]

Have a local rigger put a pocket slider on it. It is a fairly cheap way to slow down the opennings.
Kirk

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Have a local rigger put a pocket slider on it. It is a fairly cheap way to slow down the opennings.
Kirk

is this a common mod. for a hornet... i jumped one on aff training and it never opened fast but his seems to open very very fast...

Pruitt

Skydive The Farm

[ianmdrennan 2]

Drop Aubrey (from Aerodyne) a line. He's on here and a great guy who'll bend over backwards to help you. Aerodyne can probably recommend the best way for you to fix this.
Blues!
Ian

Performance Designs Factory Team

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It is a semi-common fix for canopies that open too fast. It is kind of a bandaid fix for a poor canopy design as far opennings go.
Kirk

[eUrNiCc 0]

Have someone check the trim on that thing too.. I once had a 1700ft snivel on a Hornet, a new lineset fixed that

Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age.

[FrogNog 1]

I recall seeing posted here before that at some point in the Hornet production lifespan the manufacturer started sending them out with a larger slider. (I hope I'm not wrong about this.) What was the date of manufacture on his Hornet?

My Hornet always opened 95% soft(ish), 5% hard. Once I went to ensuring the slider was hard up against the stops and controlling that part of the pack job so it stayed that way into the bag, the hard openings disappeared. I must also assume my Hornet came with the bigger slider, because I'm not that great of a packer.

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[Tonto 1]

Some of the speedier opening canopies work well as Wingsuit rigs.
I'm not a big fan of snivelly openings.

Hornets can crack open though, especially the smaller sizes.

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[CornishChris 5]

You could always get a slider from the next size up put on, i.e. if it's a 150 get a 170 slider. This is what I have on my Sabre 150...

CJP

Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people

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Aerodyne can let you know what size the slider should be as they did that when I enquired about my other half's Hornet 150 slamming him.

Don't put off 'till tomorrow what you can do today

[Danne 0]

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You could always get a slider from the next size up put on, i.e. if it's a 150 get a 170 slider. This is what I have on my Sabre 150...

No, not always! It might even make the problem worse. Check with the manufacturer.

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You could always get a slider from the next size up put on, i.e. if it's a 150 get a 170 slider. This is what I have on my Sabre 150...

No, not always! It might even make the problem worse. Check with the manufacturer.

/D

Yeah, this guy I talked to, who should be knowledgeable about canopy design, says when trying to slider-tame a hard-opening canopy you want to increase the chord of the slider but not the span. The slider for the next size canopy up might have a larger span...

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[VectorBoy 0]

I heard, but can't verify, that the h-mod commonly used on cobalts were first developed to tame Hornet openings. Added bonus better dive and flare ( my experience on the cobalts). You can verify by giving Joe Bennet a call.

[MarkM 0]

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I heard, but can't verify, that the h-mod commonly used on cobalts were first developed to tame Hornet openings. Added bonus better dive and flare ( my experience on the cobalts). You can verify by giving Joe Bennet a call.

Sure that wasn't the Heatwave and not the Hornet?

[VectorBoy 0]

Sure that wasn't the Heatwave and not the Hornet?

[skymedic 0]

I know Joe Bennet does H mods to Heatwaves...and have never heard of him doing on on a hornet. it tends to help the heatwave dive longer...also helping tame openings also.

Marc
otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman....

[neiliss 0]

I have flown a Hornet 170 for over 2 years now and I really love the canopy. I often get really hard openings though. I find that I must do the following things no matter what or else its going to whack me (this weekend was a case in point).

1. The slider must be quartered properly (not sure of the correct term for this) in other words it must be as open as possible and not crumpled up in any way.
2. I must roll the nose fairly tightly. I was shown to roll each of the 4 outer into the middle nice and tight.

Anyway not the best explanation but if I do this then I get a nice snivel with a positive but not a harsh opening nearly every time.

I have been really whipped by this canopy in the past and must be very careful when packing it.

Hope you get it right because it is a cool canopy to fly (imho).

Cheers
Neil

[jsaxton 0]

i had a hornet and the slider was not 'flat' when installed, it was concave towards the ground side. I believe this is the change that was made in the slider design.

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i had a hornet and the slider was not 'flat' when installed, it was concave towards the ground side.

How can a sheet of fabric be concave (i.e. convex) toward one side? Won't the fabric tend to be convex toward whichever way the wind blows it?

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[jsaxton 0]

they are two ply, make the bottom sheet slightly smaller than the top and hold it out of a car window. You will seethe difference.
Also, if you spread it out on the floow you could see the cup in it.