Baksteen

Thank you, Anette.
Excellent article!

Excellent article!
Perhaps a review of popular skydiver seatbelts would be a nice follow up. Any system might be better than none at all, but some are definitely better suited to a given plane's configuration and type than others (straddle benches, side benches, no benches...).

Seriously; do not buy a brand new main parachute unless you mean to keep it and jump it for a very long time. Relatively speaking, the newer the canopy is, the more money you'll 'lose' on reselling it.
And you'd really stint on your last chance reserve canopy in favour of buying a newer main?