skebenga

I would have to concur..my Cruiselite! Even did a BASE jump with it back it the day..slider up :)

Nice one! Just don't forget to block off that abrasive male velcro with female velcro before you wash, there is not much of it, but it can damage reserve risers and other softer components during the wash cycle.

Yeah I been around the block a bit too, in a nutshell: Skydive Wings (Sunrise) UPT and www.venture25.co.nz...continually amazed by the snappy 'in-you-face' service so lacking in the majority of Skydive related companies..you can absolutely rely on these folks..

Absolutely! Here I go again looking for a 'like' button!

Sensational, just sensational in every parameter....just dial in your turn way higher, and enjoy the affair you will have with the rears...!

And I met Dave and his brother Marty in Perris back in 86..good kiwi blokes they were, RIP Dave.

Nah mate- wouldn't worry if I were you. Just like PD, Icarus are always testing stuff out down here, always tinkering and pottering around....They don't and won't release anything untill it has been thoroughly tested...sometimes that takes up to two years. The Petra being a case in point. They took a while before releasing the JVX and very recently the JFX, and right now anyone who jumps them (esp the JFX) will probably agree that they will be around for a long while, simply because they score so high in every parameter and therefore pointless to improve on the current designs...

Fine points there MrHixxx! Right now, many folks I know are smelling a rat regarding the predicament Argus finds itself in...!Just sucks for the consumers. How dodgy are the incident reports surrounding the Argus 'problems'?! When you read of the plethora of past issues experienced by the competition, it sure looks like the competition got away with murder- excuse the pun!

Yep- and in the days when AAD's weren't around any fatal (no pull/low pull) make a huge impact on us all. (excuse the pun) The result was we continuously educated, reveiwed and amended our training and attitudes to prevent this, and with huge success too. Check out the trend in all those annual USPA fatality reports from way back (Paul Sitter et al) Now we all know that that the wheel has swung to the main culprits being canopy collisions and low turns. However- more sinister I feel is that every AAD save (and man have there been a bunch!) which as you correctly point out no longer really gets correctly reported, is unfortunately a very valuable and impactive learning opportunity lost. The result- our modern day instructors and experienced group simply don't carry those hard lessons thru any longer. Quite clearly there have been a plethora of really 'soft' AAD saves in the last few years.