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I had an new Safire 2 with a build in turn. My rigger test jumped it, and found the same.
When we informed Icarus, i got a brand new stock canopy, until they test jumped mine.
1 month later i got a message that they found nothing, but i could keep the stock canopy anyway!

I call that customer service!

My canopy turned slightly left, different people tried it and came to the same conclusion.
Icarus test jumped it, don´t figured out the problem, and sent me a brand new canopy
Maybe a example of an good representative!

I heard nothing but good about the (european) Icarus costumer service.

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What i find funny is some peoples out there use the same size canopy regardless of conditions and currency, myself i will hire a bigger rig for a jump if i'm uncurrent and than downsize throughout the day, if i'm nailing my landings.
I have never seen anyone else do that???
why is that?

Oh! You will hire bigger rigs, because plenty dropzones won´t let you jump your new cool rig!
Thats money that you could save for a gear change years later!

Good luck not to hurt yourself with that poor decision!

Also I am planning on buying a new rig when I get a new canopy, so I want to wait until I can get a 120ish no matter what type so I can get a little rig. That might sound silly from a newbie, but if I'm gonna spend that much money on a rig I want one that will last a looong time.

You could also buy an 7-cell canopy like a spectre, i think they usually pack 1 size smaller.
But thats an individual choice if you like the way a 7-cell flies.
IMHO, it would be worth a test jump

On their homepage is an ad called "alternative energie", looks like an new (elliptical?) canopy to me.

Seems like they release a new canopy soon, but there are no further details on their website.

Next are really nice rigs, well build and looking really awesome!
Their reserves are pretty common in our club, heard nothing but good about them!
Balance are also fine student canopies, if you a looking for a canopy in that category.
Cant say much about their other canopies, jumped a faqtor once. All i know, it has a huge slider to slow down their brisk openings.

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Thanks Bill for this great posting.
Hard to remember when you have never tried it and you need it!
I have had to make a flat turn the first time approx 100 ft. I´m on final, look down at the landing area , look up. Shit, whats this? A canopy on the right side coming straight against me. The following things were more brainstorming than thinking about it: I need only 5-10 feet to the left. Left toggle, get away from here (other canopy passed at this moment). Right toggle, don´t let the canopy dive too much at this height. Some altitude left, gently let the toggles up, gain up a little speed for my final flare.
There was not very much energy left for the flare but i ended up only pissed about the grass strains on the leg straps of my brand new rig.
I wished i had tried this turn you describe up high before.

btw, beer was free at this evening

Does nobody know if this malfunction ever happened with another rig, except Omega? When the design according to manufacturer is quite similar, why its not the case with another rigs (Atom problems should be fixed).
There are far more jumps made with javelins, and nobody here knows about an similar incident.
very strange IMHO