PISA Hornet?

[f1racer696 0]

anyone have experience with this canopy? is it any good? i read a bunch of the reviews and it seems people like it, but in the future i want to get into wingsuiting. if i still have this canopy, would it be something i could wingsuit with?

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Dudeist Skydiver #61

[Andrewwhyte 1]

The hornet is an older model canopy very similar to a Sabre I. It flies and lands very well but, like the Sabre, can open very quickly if packed sloppily.
It would be a fine wingsuiting canopy.

[downtoearth 0]

I have a friend that is a wingsuit instructor and he jumps a Pisa Hornet.

[f1racer696 0]

cool guys thanks for the reply

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Dudeist Skydiver #61

[MarkM 0]

I put about 400 jumps on a hornet, most of those wingsuit jumps. It's a good canopy for that. I'd say the canopy is a little more like a pilot than a saber.

[steve1 5]

I like mine. It was opening hard. I started psycho-packing it. It usually opens nice now.... When it was being made in Africa, I was able to buy one new at an unbelievably low price. They may be hard to find now....

[SStewart 13]

Great canopy and made from the easy to pack South African ZP like the older Aerodyne canopies. Almost identical to the Pilot. I put about 400 jumps on one and I would recommend the large domed slider for softer openings. I used mine for camera jumps and only had one slammer but after that I went to a bigger slider and that seemed to cure it.

Onward and Upward!

[Mozencrath 0]

I had a hornet - for about 10 jumps. First 5 were hard. On the sixth one, a buddy used it for a video jump. Needless to say he didn't jump the rest of the weekend. It slammed him soooo hard.

The consensus on the Hornets is that you will find half the people say the openings are soft, the other half complain they are hard. This is because PISA actually manufactured two different types of Hornets. The earlier version featured a smaller slider, and those canopies (pre-2001 I believe) are the whackers. The ones made after 2001 had a bigger slider and perhaps some other adjustments. Those hornets opened nicely.

Do a dz.com search and you can read more about this. If anything, put a pocket on the slider or a bigger slider all together should solve your problem.