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Brake lines too short? About brake lines: Skylark is NOT recommended to change brake lines length - it's precisely calculated for maximum efficiency. While swoop by rear risers brake lines do their job in holding trail of the wing. So You can chage brake length if only really know that You are doing. As for me, brakes much longer than Velocity's factory length, i.e. long enough. Skylark has recommendation about optimal risers length for all Scirocco sizes, using much longer risers causes short brakes effect. In attached pic Zver @ Scirocco-64

Build quality is very good, material is thick, vectran or HMA lines. I've done 200+ jumps with Odyssey-95 (1.9), tried 110, 90 and 85 sizes. In comparison with Crossfire-2: Opens soft on-heading but a bit faster than Ñrossfire. Front risers is similar to Crossfire's, recovery arc is longer, rear risers works excellent. Canopy likes high loads, I tried Odyssey-85 (the smallest available) with w/l about 2.1 is still opens and flies great with very powerful flare. Absolutely recommended for looooong swoops, very good for cameramen.

maybe You know (or not :) ) about ukrainian canopy designing and manufacturing canopy Skylark: http://www.skylark.ua/en/parachutes/ (they manufacturing canopies from 2003-2004 with really good quality and price). Skylark's skydive equipment is very popular in Russia and Ukraine for few years and now they started demo and sell programs in US too. I think now it's time to add Skylark to dz.com's Gear catalogue with their main canopies Commodore (student's Navigator class), Skipper (7 cell ZP Spectre class canopy), Magellan (Sabre2/Safire class), Odyssey (elliptical HP canopy) and new ultra HP X-braced 30-cell Scirocco. I'm not a Skylark employee, only a happy owner of some Skylark canopies, including the new top performance Scirocco.

It opens really sweet - like Crossfire. Flying really good - I like it more than Velo. Has a bit shorter arc, but it still in preproduction stage, many changes may be done. Didn't jump JVX, so can't compare with it.

Linetwist on high-loaded elliptical main canopy and linetwist on square reserve are not the same, on reserve you may not spinning to the ground, just fly forward and have time to untwist, but if You haven't this time, it means that skyhook saved your life, even with linetwist it's better, than with not deployed reserve.

That was me, now I steering by rears while inflating, 90% onheading openings, more than 200 jumps w/o cutaway, but somtime it (Velo-79) still twists, but I untwist :)

And what about Neos? Did anybody measure it against VX/JVX or Velo of same size in sticker? P.S. I own Neos-89 and waiting for Velo-79.

I have 100+ jumps on my Neos-89 (loaded 2.03), I like it! It opens softly like Crossfire, first stage - it snivel about 3 sec, second - while inflating, it starts to fly forward, and You can effectively steer it by legs until it inflates. It dives deeper than Xaos27 of same size! Soft front risers, a bit hard rears, powerful flare and high oversteer - You may stop rotation by opposite front riser or leg. Î÷åíü çà÷åòíûé ïàðàøþòåã!

I owned Crossfire-109 and Crossfire-99, now I own Skylark Odyssey-95 and Neos-89, so, Odyssey is more HP canopy than Crossfire, it dives deeper, developing more speed in turns, amost like my Neos, and opens very nice, a bit faster than too long snivel of Crossfire, but very comfortable, stable and on-heading. Really good canopy, if it'll have PD or IC logo and higher price, many pepole in the world will fly Skylark canopies. Also SkyLark making 7-cell ZP canopy "Skipper", IMHO, it flies better that Spectre and have very good openings.

New PD-126 (2004+) packed not bigger than Smart-120!

It's true. I have PD-126R '2004 which packed into container for Tempo-120 / Techno-128. If I was using old PD-R, it may be problems with packin 113 sq.ft into this container.