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what was the worst canopy youve ever jumped?

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Very limited experience here, but I'd say a Fury 220. Maybe it was an old and ragged-out example, or my technique was lacking but it seemed that no matter how I flared it it would either bring me pounding in vertically or screaming in horizontally. The Balance 260 and PD210 I jumped before and after it seemed easy-peasy by comparison, and the Spectre 190 and Sabre 2 170 simply orgasmic.

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I've only jumped 10 kinds of canopies (not including those I was a tandem passenger under), but I'd have to say my least favorite was the Safire2 149. I had it for 2 weekends to demo, but after 10 jumps on it the first weekend, I gave it to a friend and put my Hornet 170 back into my rig.

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My paraglider reserve last Sunday... huge uncontrollable round, left me helpless floating down into a neighborhood, but yea, it saved my ass!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out and shouting,
".... holy crap....what a ride!"

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We had a PISA 170, no matter how it was packed, it would leave you seeing stars on the openings. Had a master rigger completely look it over, he couldnt find anything. We sold it, letting the buyer know how it was, we never heard anything else about it. I was 5' tall before jumping it, Im now 5'2...lol joke....:S

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Hummm....then they weren't TOTAL malfunctions then were they? Angelic



So? I had 2 high speed mal on those and Im not willing to jump those bitches anymore.




;) Thank you!


If it makes you happy ;).

I had jumps on RS4/A , round main from DDR, but it was not so bad.;)

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25 years ago or so I had a Merlin. 90% of the time I loved that canopy. It opened fine, it flew fast and I could land it on a dime. BUT about 10% of the time it would have some weird thing happen with the lines on the left side (a tension knot I assume) and I'd have a spin. Fortunately it wasn't one of today's small canopies so it didn't spin like a mother f@#$er and if I fought with the lines I could get it to clear... most of the time. Of course it did it the one and only time my parents ever came out to see me jump.

But like I say most of the time I thought that canopy was the cat's ass and loved it. Packed it the same every time and after it I landed I could never find anything wrong even when I had to land with the right side in half brakes so I'd be going straight. Never did chop that thing :)
"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

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The worst one I've ever jumped is also the best one: a 24 foot flat twill reserve. It was my first reserve ride. I had a total malfunction, so I still had the full weight of the main (a 28 foot C-9) in the container. Not steerable, and landed me like a ton of bricks, which made it the worst canopy. Saved my life for the first time with a reserve, so it also made it the best. Can't get any better than still alive.

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5 cell strato-star>:(

borrowed it from a friend[:/], on my 999th jump.... I was allowed to double manifest , in order to make my 1,000th jump that same day...*

had a pretty SOLID landing..:|

fortunately ,,, it was in the peas...;)B|
NEVER jumped another 5 cell..... ever....

.. * ....p.s. # 1,000 was made on my reliable old french papillon...( at the time, I had maybe 50 jumps on a ram-air)

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I have about the same experience as you and i'll go with the Fury too.

I jumped it a bunch of times and found out myself that the slider likes to fucking stay up...way up.

Then i hit another DZ on my travells and the guy says "oh, by the way, the slider tends to hang up on these, dont panic just pull your rears"

I laughed, could of done with that info a while back :S

It also steered like such shit on the toggles too, i didnt want to hand wrap as im not a fan of that so just used rears the whole way down and had fun doing it too. Flared with toggles
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Until morale improves, the beatings will continue.

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