TheMannequin

Witbank Skydiving Club...about 130Km East of Pretoria, South Africa.

Systems Administrator

I jump a ZPexe 170 and have learned that if you keep slight pressure on the toggles, it can handle the worst of turbulance!! I learnt it the hard way, with the canopy also collapsing at ~150ft on finals.

And also...fly your canopy until you are standing still on the ground...

Have done it..on my 100th, in our winter! And wouldn't mind doing it again!

My exit weight is also just over 170 lbs. and when I first started with formation, my avg was also in the 105 -110mph range (according to Neptune).

After some jumps with about 20lbs of weight, i started to need less and less.... I just learned to fall faster, and alot of people have told me they started the same... you will get more range eventually.

Good luck

yep... not to bad actually, wouldn't mind doing it 'gain

yes, for my 100th... just a week ago! it's winter here in SA, so it was a bit small... i mean cold at altitude

it was actually an amazing jump...the first few seconds was a bit unstable, but then you get everything in the right place

I just got my new ZP.exe 170... gotabout 12 jumps on it now.

I have had 2 or 3 long spots with it, and got back closer than a guy on a Hornet190 that was open above me! When i opened and saw how far, I grabbed rears and got home nicely...

And it's not as difficult to pack as a New old ZP....

the turbulance... learnt my lesson quickly, you just have to keep some toggle pressure on.... then it handles turbulance ok. I left my toggles alone the first time I jumped it in strong(ish) winds, and it almost collapsed at about 100ft!!! keep slight toggle pressure (fly it the whole time) and it's fine.

Be glad!!! I got mine for $330.... (R2000) and that's cheapest over here!!

Nope, running XP Pro SP2, with a USB IrDA device....
just make sure the "receive files via infrared' is turned off...

PC Gaming, although it's not THAT big here, I just started winning some bucks from it.... but it was so worth it! and savings!

Nice to know... but I did see in the manual, where they show the voltage graph, it will be constant most of it's live, and then just die!!

Thanx for the heads up... luckilly mine has still some ways to go before getting close to that number of jumps.....

Welcome one-and-all to my first post! (of many I hope)

Been reading the forums for awhile now, and I must say it's *very* informative.... with the occasional slap fest (but that's normal)

Completed my static-line progression route a few weeks back, can get my A, but need to learn to pack.... oneday!

anyhow, me home DZ is at WSC, South Africa (only one I jumped sofar ;-( )

cheerz