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Is there anyway to prevent this? i mean, what about if the canopy looks alright but has structural damage and it breaks when doing a hook turn at 400 feet. No time to cutaway and deploy the reserve, no cypress, probaly an unflyable canopy... Not good. I have been told that the pressure exerted on the canopy when it opens is such that if it doesn´t break then, (as it has happen to you) it will not happen because of a hook turn? is this true? I probably would have sworn for 1/10 of a second and cut away. By the way, i also have a PD canopy in Vector 2 with 300 jumps and mine as well is overloaded. Congratulations on your first malfunction.

Thank you all for the info.!!!

Hello, i have recently gotten a new parachute. The main canopy is a PD-9 cells 190 square feet. I was told before i bought it that the main canopy had a total of 250 jumps. I don´t have any reason to doubt the guy who sold it to me, but he bought it to someone else (so it is third hand). I think that it could have more jumps than that. I had it inspected by a professional rigger and he told me it was allright. My concern is to know when the canopy starts becoming unusable and therefore risky to jump with. I have heard that a F-111 fabric canopy with 1000 jumps would most likely be in pretty bad shape. Could anyone help? Thanks.