Turns to double fronts

[Metekanya 0]

When flying in deep - mid brakes prior to starting with double fronts, how do you adjust your set up? if you are going to oversoot, do you go to full flight to get to altitude sooner or do you do turns in full brakes to loose altitude?

[DrewEckhardt 0]

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When flying in deep - mid brakes prior to starting with double fronts, how do you adjust your set up?

With no wind, you adjust your pattern so that it looks less like a perfect rectangle. Maybe the turns from down wind to base and then onto final have a wider radius, or you fly slightly off the wind line (say 15 degrees making a 105 degree turn onto your base leg) to allow for a longer base leg.

By the time you're on final approach you shouldn't have to do anything. After planeout you can pop up and kill your speed and land on target in a stall so you're a bit shorter than you otherwise would be but swoop accuracy comes almost entirely from what you do above 1000 feet.

With wind more brakes down-wind and on final land you shorter.

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if you are going to oversoot, do you go to full flight to get to altitude sooner

Going from some brakes to full flight will make a modern canopy go a little steeper.

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or do you do turns in full brakes to loose altitude?

That would invite a collision from some one behind you.