Sobakin

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About Sobakin

  • Birthday 08/10/1976

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Gear

  • Container Other
    Vector V303/Mirage G4 MZS
  • Main Canopy Size
    72/70
  • Main Canopy Other
    Scirocco/Odyssey EVO
  • Reserve Canopy Size
    113/106
  • Reserve Canopy Other
    PD Optimum/PD Reserve
  • AAD
    MarS

Jump Profile

  • Home DZ
    DZ Boro (Borodianka near Kyiv)
  • License
    C
  • License Number
    C649-KO
  • Licensing Organization
    FPSU
  • Number of Jumps
    3600
  • Tunnel Hours
    5
  • Years in Sport
    19
  • First Choice Discipline
    Freefall Photography
  • First Choice Discipline Jump Total
    2000
  • Second Choice Discipline
    Freeflying
  • Second Choice Discipline Jump Total
    500
  • Freefall Photographer
    Yes

Ratings and Rigging

  • AFF
    Jumpmaster
  • USPA Coach
    No
  • Pro Rating
    No
  • Wingsuit Instructor
    No

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  1. I just make 3 jumps with Skipper EVO-95 loaded 1.85. It swoops absolutely great for it's class.
  2. Flying Ody EVO-70 loaded 2.55 and it flies and controls excellent, openings also good soft but not too long (I am cameraflyer), awesome speed building capability. Before made 200 jumps on 75 loaded 2.3 and it was very good too. Don't even want to try to load Katana the same. You may find my post about this canopy with video included.
  3. Recent jump with Odyssey EVO-70 after reline with HMA-600 (initially was installed orange Vectran-300 which lasts too short especially with terminal openings which I only do jumping mostly tandem camera and AFF). Didn't notice almost any difference.
  4. Hi! I did some jumps with 95 size @1.8 wingload and liked it, but at such loads where is not big difference in capabilities between EVO and non-evo. At loads around 1.8 previous model of Odyssey canopy is really great and as transition canopy too. Highly loaded Odyssey EVO is in x-braced class canopy (I like it more than Velo) thanks to more elliptical "Schumann" planform and V-Ribs, so I think real sense of EVO is at w/l 2.0+, but it will fly great at loads from 1.6 (the inlets is not too small and inner pressure and stability I think even better than non-evo at same loads), but, again, at low loads non-evo is good enough and has a bit smaller pack volume, so any choice will be great
  5. Done about 30 jumps on 70 size and very happy with it!
  6. Fricrion is a linear function of pressure, higher contact area = lower pressure. So if fricrion coefficient of material is the same, the total friction force will be the same on thin and thick lines.
  7. New canopy (this is 3rd jump on it) packed by myself Opened relatively fast, but absolutely not hard.
  8. Yesterday I've done one testjump with new size, smallest in lineup - 70 sq.ft. Loaded at 2.5 it flies great without any symptoms of overloading: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JR0bgu-76s Photo: http://www.dropzone.com/images/photos/assets/4/635094-largest_7604-1543174111.jpg
  9. Two 450° swoops from last weekend with Odyssey EVO-75: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kUy4cIc7I4
  10. Ok, I know that competition ultra HP in last decade shifted to much higher performance level, but Velo/VX/JVX 10 years ago was ultra-HP for sure, maybe You're right about nowadays, but I still consider them (as all other x-braced) as ultra-HP, maybe I'm wrong, it depends of point of view and is a question of terminology. As for me there are ultra-HP canopies which performance level is higher than non-xbraced elliptical HP canopies and in last years are next level competition-class (Petra etc). Maybe we'd call entry-level x-braces as "x-braced HP class" if You don't like word "ultra" for them? :)
  11. Ok, what is ultra-HP? In my opinion it's capability of keeping good speed-building and flying characteristics under wingloaging far beyond 2.0 with good control and feedback and it's all about new Odyssey EVO. If Velocity or Icarus FX/VX despite it's obsolete now is in ultra-HP class, why Odyssey EVO which performs at least not worse and for sure outperforms any non-xbraced canopies can't be in ultra-HP? In fact it's definitely ultra-HP canopy with only alternative ribs system and tuned for more miltipurpose usage than competition-class ultra-HP, so it recovers shorter than uncompromising competition swoop-tuned Scirocco, but it can built a lot of speed and swoops really far too. It's for filling the hole between modern HP-class and competition ultra-HP and for replacement of old design's 7-cell x-braced canopies, also it's excellent as first ultra-HP canopy. Because nose is not so closed, air pressure in canopy maintains high enough even at relatively low wingloads like 1.5-1.6 making canopy still very rigid and fun to fly, but it's full potential definitely starts to open at wingloads beyond 2.0, and identifies this canopy as ultra-HP for sure. I've done about 1200 jumps on Scirocco-72 @2.4-2.5 and now I don't want to change Odyssey EVO for it back for everyday work jumps because Odyssey EVO suits this much better and is still very-very fun to fly. But waiting for Scirocco EVO... :)
  12. Planform view: http://www.dropzone.com/images/photos/assets/8/634128-work-7385-1529323381.jpg
  13. They are available now, going to full production about last two weeks. There are not only HP/ultraHP Odyssey EVO, but full EVO line with Magellan EVO (9-cell less elliptical) and 7-cell Skipper EVO all with V-Ribs, and now they are working on new comp-class Scirocco EVO machine. You need to find nearest Skylark dealer and ask him about demo, I don't know are there demo canopies now near You, but I know that demo program for EVO line exists and they are producing now many canopies for demo.
  14. Tail miniribs spaced agsainst top skin V-Ribs, top skin divided to 26 chambers, bottom to 18. At the tail V-Ribs can't work because of very thin space, so it transforms to tail miniribs. I see no any problem in seeing like miniribs not equally spacing, really it spacing equally if not count a stitch between cells where V-Ribs ends and miniribs starts. Stabilizers are non-inflatable, from designer's answers I understand that in this configuration is better to stay it classic and not to spend inflatable cells for not building lift but just for stretching. It flies absolutely awesome even in my non-pro-swooper's hands: https://youtu.be/lrRigtxtkq0