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  2. Awdpsi

    I have to second the post above me the WinX is an amazing canopy made by a base canopy mfg and it shows. Packs super duper small. It's all ZP and fun as hell to fly. I load mine (135) at 1.55 and its never failed me yet. I've had zero problem getting back from long sports.

    I've flown side by side with a P7 and it seems to glide better although we did have different wing loadings.

    I fly with someone who has an epicine 190 and he has no where near the same performance or glide as I do. He's landed off while I've made it back.

    I also have to say ZP will without question last longer than f111. I like the idea with it for opening characteristics and pack volume. With the WinX there isn't a need for the f111. It opens great!!

    Oh and I fly the winx with a Carve and a Strix and its the bees knees so get yourself one. (and its cheaper than the other f111 options that wont last as long)


    Yep the Winx is the One, where did you buy your ? do you know a rep in Canada or the US ?

  3. birdynamnam

    Wingload keep it below 1.4.

    THe canopies mentioned has been developed for Wingsuit flying and are all good choices. You miss the Pilot-7 in the list though.

    Personally I don't want to jump own have anymore canopies in low porosity material (f-111 etc). Material deteriorate quickly compared to ZP. So for me it is ZP. I jump the Winx150 @ 1.5 and love it. Roughly 300 jums so far, not a single linetwist.

    Winx and Pilot-7, I think these two are the top dogs, at least my preferred. If you want even lower wl on those, you can order them in hybrid materiels, like ZP on all topskin and low prorosity on the rest. That still makes them more high performance than the alternatives, Epicene and Horizon. Those just have small strips of ZP in certain areas.

    My choice is all ZP, with the Winx it works well. If you get a Winx, remember that the way they measure the canopy size is a bit different. E.g. a 150 is really 144. They document this in the manual.

    But other things play in to get rid of linetwists, besides a good deployment technique, lengt of bridle (8' or above), a fresh pilotchute, I prefer ZP and 30" actually a SkySnatch, D-bag semistowless, Your rig's main container with open corners, good packing technique.

    All parameters play in. As an example if you upsized your wingsuit, you now have different speed at deployments and larger burble trailing behind you, it will require lower wingsload, and all the tricks in the book as described above suddently, where you might previously have done well without.



    Thx for all the advise, i think am gonna go for the winx, do you know any dealer in Canada or in the US ?