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For real. If you're not a likable person, then no one is going to like you. Know your limits. If you're good enough to go on a 2-3 way with other low time jumpers, then just do that. If you want to be better than that, frankly you need to get yourself in a tunnel, and spend that sweet sweet cash. I'd bet that most of the newer jumpers that you see flying on organized loads are people who you do not really know, and who also fly 10-20 minutes in a tunnel weekly. That's how you advance in this sport now, if "advancing" is something you're interested in doing. If you just want to be in the sky and have a good time, then do it. Also, ffs, don't let there be another moment in your life when you're complaining about a nice rack to look at. Let her motives be her own, and you just do you buddy.

OP, you alive?

Just looking at pictures on google makes me think it wouldn't be anyone's first choice for a jump plane. Jumping with my head in between the fuselage and the left nacelle would take some getting used to. I also don't like the fact that a standard front-of-door tracking exit would put your head about a foot away from the prop with nothing in between, but I don't think there's a real chance of a prop strike there. Short answer, if I had more than one place to choose from, and one was flying the AC500, I wouldn't jump there.

Morpheus is in FL. http://www.baserigs.com/docs/main.html Their website is only for BASE gear, so I don't know if they deal with Atair's skydiving gear. I know for a fact that Adam Foster at Leading Edge Gear sells them, but I don't know if he does demos http://www.leadingedgegear.com/

None. I was mostly replying to a previous statement concerning the weak flare of the Sabre 2. My comments regarding the Sabre 2 not being a good wingsuit canopy were based on the assumption that irregular freefall openings would universally translate to irregular wingsuit openings.

I'll echo what some other folks have said about this, it's not the canopy, it's the pilot. The Sabre 2 (of a comparable wingloading) has (arguably) the most powerful flare of any of the lightly tapered "intermediate" 9 cell canopies. If you need to run out your landing either the wind is currently at your back, or you're doing it wrong. Using a really definite 2 stage flare (super quick to the shoulders, then slow to complete shutdown) will have you walking out your landings 100% of the time. That said, no matter what you do the openings will be slightly unpredictable, and I wouldn't really recommend a Sabre 2 as a wingsuit canopy. I haven't had a single line twist in hundreds of freefall jumps on this canopy, but I still find it surges at least 90 degrees on most openings.

This isn't trying to contribute to the specific discussion at hand, but I do want to point out that my dropzone always does an East to West jumprun due to air traffic from DIA. Headwind or tailwind, the jumprun is always the same and can vary greatly in ground speed. FYI.

For anyone wanting to try Barkeeper's method: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axCeYlY_6io