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Short review as there are no others for it at this point. I had one of these for a while, and had a lot of good jumps with it. It opened nice, flew responsively, and most importantly in skydiving, it looked AWESOME. Easily the best looking canopy I've ever owned.

Up in the sky I had a lot of fun with it. I was flying a 100, loaded around 1.8.

It was all good until coming in to land. Some occasions it was absolutely fine, with a nice suitable flare. Other times it wasn't though. Particularly for low speed flares. If you misjudge your landing heights and plane out too high, there is next to no flare on the resulting drop to the ground. That made me nervous every time, after the first time, of being too high. Compare that to other canopies I've jumped, where if I plane out too high, there's still plenty of power left in the flare to let me land nicely. Not with the Chili.

So as long as you get your heights right, it's good fun. But I moved on from this as I preferred a canopy that I didn't HAVE to think about PLFing if I plane out too high.
But that's just my experience, and I'm probably a rather crap canopy pilot, so take this review for what it's worth!

When I was looking for a new canopy after progressing from Pilots, I went through a phase of trying to jump lots of different types of canopy that were available. I tried xfire2 109, Demon 100, Mamba 104, FX 107 and the Odyssey 120. After trying the Odyssey, I ordered a 105 brand new custom made.

Why did I choose the Odyssey? Well, first off, I'm not a big swooper at all. I'm slowly learning to do 90s, but I just like a canopy that is really fun to fly. I've done many 12k hop n pops, so I can play around and have fun with my canopy, and for me the Odyssey was the most fun.

I've done about 50 jumps on my 105 now, and EVERY opening has been soft and it hasn't twisted up once (unlike ALL those other canopies I tried for far fewer jumps). It has had a tendency to slowly dive to the left after full inflation, but that is easily fixable. It has a short snivel, so opens in less altitude than the xfire2 did. Usually it about 600-700 feet give or take from tossing the PC to full inflation. I found the xfire2 usually was nearer the 800 feet mark.

In flight, it is nicely snappy on toggles. I don't mean twitchy, which can make you nervous, I mean you pull the toggle and it will respond positively and quickly with a fast rotation, which I like. It returns to normal flight pretty quick after you let the toggle back up.

Risers aren't too heavy. Front pressure can build up (I'm only a 65kg weakling) once I've gone beyond about a 180 on fronts (only tried that high up, no where near that rotation on swooping), but for 90s which I'm practicing it is not too heavy, but not too light.

Rears are similar, not too heavy and not too light. I've not had any long spots to get back from, but the canopy seems nice and controllable with rears.

It is quite sensitive to harness input, allowing for easy course corrections after opening while I sort out the slider etc.

On landing the flare is great. My first ever jump I did a flare that muscle memoried how I flared on my Pilots, and I popped up 10 feet. It has SO much more flare power than the Pilots I was jumping had. I jumped Pilots in 150, 132, 124, and 117 sizes, and none of those gave me the power in flare that the two Odysseys I've jumped had. I demoed a 120 and bought a 105. I can do a slower, gradual flare for more of a glide across the ground, or a fuller flare for a short, shut down, step down landing. Most important part is, I feel comfortable and confident with the flare, even in no winds.

And the price. I got mine on a very special offer, which worked out just over half the price of most other similar class canopies on the market, but that offer is over now, and even at full price, it is still about 3/4 the price of those other canopies.

After trying those other canopies, the one this was most like in my opinion was the Xfire2, but I preferred the Odyssey. For me, it is like an Xfire2 with more "ooommph" and "ooommph" is a good thing. It just had that little more in all the areas that I liked. I thought the flare was more powerful than the Xfire2's, it had more positive response with the toggles, risers were similar.

I honestly think that if you really like the Xfire2 then you will REALLY like the Odyssey. They are in the same class range and for me the Odyssey takes the top spot.

I'll be keeping this canopy for a long time and I am VERY pleased with the purchase.

I have 2 rigs, and for those that care, I put the Demon 100 (from Firebird) in my second rig, as it was also really good fun to fly, and a bargain at its retail price.

While the category is for the Freefly suit, Go Crazy have replaced it with the Hybrid suit now. First thing that makes the Go Crazy suit so great is the fact that you can design the suit any way you want. There are no set templates to colour from, you design it how you want it - pattern and colours. Yeah, more complicated suits may have an additional fee for this service, but if you can get a 100% unique suit that is completely you, it is well worth this service! It is completely customisable to your specifications! The build quality is good, communication is excellent and the price is fantastically competitive compared to other suit manufacturers. I think base price for this suit is $200 (at time of writing). I'm well happy with my suit. Just cause they are not one of the bigger, major suit manufacturers does not mean they should be overlooked. I think there is a pretty good chance that whatever my next suit is, I'll be looking to Go Crazy to make it!