compatable canopies

[VectorBoy 0]

What kind of canopy do you guys fly with your wingsuit? The three pilots I know personnally deploy mild behaving spectres.

[SkydiveMonkey 0]

The only guy at my dz who jumps a suit has an FX I think.
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[Jussi 0]

i have a Atair Impulse, 100sqft loaded at 2.0..

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

I jump a Competition Cobalt 75 with my wingsuit. It opens very soft and straight; both key characteristics of what you want in a canopy for wingsuit use. If your normal main is a "spinner" that you EVER have to fight, then don't jump it with a wingsuit. While with practice you can get your wings off almost immediately, there is still a chance that a spinny main could get away from you before you have a chance to stop it. There are a lot of straight/easy opening mains out there, so do right and choose one of those instead of jumping a "known offender" on at least your maiden flights.
Chuck
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[cobaltdan 0]

plug:
atair canopies are ideal for wing suit flying. cobalts are designed for tracking deployments and their deployment sequence makes for safe soft, consistant openings without tendency to spin.
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robert (the designer of the birdman suits) has worked in our european factoy for many years. both he and jari jumped for many years exclusively our impulse (alpha) and troll canopies. jari switched main canopies (not base) when another company was able to offer a generous sposorship that promoted birdman suits.
sincerely,
dan

[Martini 0]

Jussi, would you reccommend a Xaos-21 (loaded around 2.0) for a new wingsuit flier? Mine opens softly, slowly and generally well behaved but will definately twist up if you don't fly the opening. If I buy a BM then a second canopy isn't affordable.

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[Base733 0]

I love my 95 Cobalt with my S3 but what is really fun with the wingsuit is my Atair Troll!!!

Baxter.

[SkymonkeyONE 3]

Actually, some of the better canopies for wingsuit jumps are the ones that "nobody wants anymore". Old Sabres are a dime a dozen and incredibly cheap. Just an idea. That said, I have done wingsuit jumps with a tiny Xaos and didn't have any problems at all.

Chuck

[Jussi 0]

like skymonkeyone said, i wouldn´t recommend xaos at least for the first jumps, Sabre is in my humble opinion one of the best choices for the new wingsuit jumpers...

In Finland you have to jump your five first BM jumps with a sabre like canopies, that was decided after some reserve rides....... good rule imo.

but when you get some experience with BM, i guess you could use your Xaos.

i don´t currently have a wingsuit, but i jumped with Stiletto, Sabre, Impulse, Velocity, had one reserve ride with the Impulse. Out of those, Sabre was my favorite on a wingsuit jump

get a Sabre

hope that helps

JFM

[greybeard 0]

I looked for months for usable Spectre. Definetly my first choice. Never ever heard of a line over or unrecoverable twist with the verable seven cell. (Deep cell).

Settled for a big-ass sabre, like chuck, said, cheap, and near new. No problems so far, although the extra long bridle took some getting used to.

[crawford 0]

I am currently jumping a Safire loaded at 2.0:1 and have the best openings. I have jumped the Stiletto and the Cobalt with great success as well, but as you know, the Stiletto's are known to "twist up" on ya and it did just that for my first BM Mal. And as far as the Cobalt, well, I have had some bad luck with hard openings on those that Atair could not explain and I couldn't remedy so I no longer utilize the Cobalt, but everyone has different opinions on those anyway. As long as you are opening at a good alti, you have plenty of time to deal with the problems. I honestly believe that the spinner on the Stiletto was due to not having the Mod's on the container like I should have had. BUT, going with what Chuck said is never a bad idea! Wanted to include my experiences anyway!

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