GavinG

I have just purchased a Hurricane 120 and as far as I am aware it is pretty much the same design that has been around for the last few years. Have you heard anything to the contrary? The Hurricane is made by Parachute Systems in South Africa while the Heatwave WAS made by PISA (Parachute Industries of South Africa) before PISA was bought out by Aerodyne. As a result of this none of the old PISA canopies (Heatwave, Hornet, etc) are manufactured but they are still maintained by Aerodyne.

I have just bought my first Hurricane canopy (120sq ft) and I LOVE IT. Great openings! It performs very well in strong wind conditions (I have only done 4 jumps on it, 2 of which were in 20knt winds). The canopy gives long dives on turns with very little riser pressure. Landings are fast but easily controlled. I ordered mine through Manny at Icarus Air Wear and got it in 6 weeks, no service problems there!!!! I am only giving this canopy a rating of 4 as I have only done 4 jumps on it and still have a lot to learn about it.

Ignore last comment from me, I did not read the DVD part very well, sorry!

Sorry this comment is late, just joined dropzone.com today! Every cameraman at our dropzone, in fact almost every cameraman I know, uses a Sony Mini-DV camera (PC105e's are the most popular) and no-one has ever had a problem like the one you are describing.