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normiss

Thanks for clarifying what is there for the landing area.

Would that make the other jumper flying a left hand pattern while avoiding the no fly area to be flying a proper pattern?

I have always been taught left hand pattern as a rule unless otherwise specified. No?

How is the direction of the pattern affect getting a conflict at lets say 80m on final?

I admit that I have failed to spotted my "party", but I don't agree the way he/she resolved the conflict and the risk of having a canopy collision was not even spotted by the other party.

It was my 7th day of jumping there, there was a ground/landing person on duty. I have used both left and right pattern according situation, traffic and wind direction. None had any complain about me under canopy, which does not prove me right of course.

normiss

Why weren't you flying a left hand pattern like the other jumper appears to have been doing?

There is a no-fly zone one the left side: swoop area/swoop lane.

I was coming there with a right pattern with 320m/220m/120m turning points. I've seen that copy crossing about 90-100m when I was on final.

What difference does it make to fly left or right pattern if someone is crossing the whole landing area crosswind direction?

Near miss?

Is there transcript available somewhere?
I've listened to that clip. There was not anything about spinning line-twist. Weird.

I push my risers together if I have a line-twist. The canopy wants to open and spins me out of the twist.

ChadF

I'm building a rig and was thinking about putting something funny on the cutaway handle. Some ideas:

* Plan B
* Oh Shit

Any pithy ideas?

"Idiot" ?

DcloudZ

***that's so small i'd just keep an eye for it in case it starts to get bigger. You can mark it like 1 or 2 squares away from the edges with some kind of ink, makes it easier to find.

I also like putting chemicals all over my canopy

There is a thing called textile marker.....

You can find him on facebook. His name is Rami Kajala, rami.kajala.

DcloudZ

Would landing downwind as opposed to into the wind affect the length of a canopy's recovery arc?

Sure the length of the recovery arc is longer, but the altitude used for recovery is the very same. How your can would know about your ground speed?

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So what particular characteristic does this canopy have that makes it so dangerous compared to a say a comp velo 71 that has no such restrictions?
Is this any different to what PD has done for years? (Sponsor top pilots and supply them with the latest canopy/line set/rds)
Judging from the serial numbers of my comp velos, I would imagine there is such a small market for these canopies that there is no money to be made selling them to the public anyway.

It is nice a thing that they are willing to sell to some selected and qualified people outside of PD Factory team.

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A couple loads landing out, one bird ended up in a tree.

No surprise. Right place to build a nest.

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When I took a canopy course, I still remember the phrase for rears was : "Less is more". If you can accomplish a good distance swoop with barely using any rears, that only means that you build enough speed that you don't need any input on your wing to keep it level.

You ever watched a competitive round of speed swooping? The top finishers are always on rears.

Do you jump a canopy tuned for competitions?

I got about this with Cobalt135 when brakes were not set.

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Hey guys ive been looking around lately trying to find reviews on the Havok but with no avail. Im currently flying a P3 and am looking at possibly getting something just a bit bigger. my general flight preferences are acro and just screwing around flocking with friends, and some base in the future.i
Just trying to get some user feedback on this suit

How about even trying to use search here?

Not longer you can reach

I did my cord for power-tool twice. It is made from cypres cord. I finger trapped both and and stitch it too.

I got one jump on a Cobalt 135 WL 1.8+ when I forgot to set my brakes.

I had my wildest opening there. My canopy was trying to fly with uninflated center cells in a shape of a V. I pulled some rears to help inflation. I got 2 full twist on the lines in a split second from stall recovery. I was really close to give up and cut it away.

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I would say the reason few people knows about it, is that many people will damage their own equipment so its not even brought up.

I'd rather say Spectra is going out of fashion, HMA and Vectran are used on more and more canopies.

I have seen seen this kung-foo once done.
I can't remember any difference in flight.
There is a better trick out there: get a new Dacron or Vectran line-set instead.

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would like to bring in the good old: "arch-bendyourknees-pull-pray" for us skydiving wingsuiters to prevent such burbling.

Think again. I got bridle knotting with PF-Stealth and classic(student) deployment. Full flight has smaller burble than classic with a huge suit.
I moved back to full flight deployments and no more knots.

Your definition of "classic student position" and Gerhardt's may differ.
You had knots on more than one deployment??

My definition of classic deployment position is all wings closed, arch and pull after 5 sec delay.

I got knot on my bridle more than 5 times, my canopy deployed just normally,but no more knots after went back to fly-pull-fly

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Hi, I am trying to get information on which canopy to choose to jump a X-bird wingsuit.
I understood I should avoid elleptical canopies, but it seems it is not true all the time.

I have the choice between a Springo or an Electra.
My wing load is around 1,30.

Anybody has experienced such canopies with a big wingsuit?

If you have a choice and doubt go for the less radical one.
How have you end up with one of the biggest suit? What have you jumpped before?

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would like to bring in the good old: "arch-bendyourknees-pull-pray" for us skydiving wingsuiters to prevent such burbling.

Think again. I got bridle knotting with PF-Stealth and classic(student) deployment. Full flight has smaller burble than classic with a huge suit.
I moved back to full flight deployments and no more knots.

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What size of canopy are you jumping?

hi there im jumping a 97 spectre wingloading of 1.4