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Yup, there's already few threads about this. Just to add what AggieDave said, XF2 has lighter frontriser pressure than Stiletto and turns faster on risers. Both canopies are sensitive to harness input.

Yes, they do. That's why I changed my Stiletto to Crossfire.

My vote goes for the Crossfire. Absolutely the softest opening canopy I've ever flown. The XFire2 seems to open bit faster than the original xf but still very soft.

One more. Jumping in the winter is fun.

Okay, not very good but I'll throw them in anyway.

Cool, we're waiting for it..

So how does it compare in flight with Crossfire2, any info yet?

It's a shame I have to be working next week, otherwise I would've been there too. Hope everyone is having fun there, maybe next year.

As it has been stated here many times the xfire2 turns faster and has longer recovery arc than xfire1 but how does it compare in bottom end lift?

I've jumped Crossfire 119 and Vengeance 120 and preferred the Crossfire. The riser/toggle pressure was lighter on Crossfire and the recovery arc was longer. Turn rate was better on the Vengeance and it felt probably a bit more rigid in the air. Now I just wish I had money to buy xfire2...

So, how did ya like it now when it flew correctly?

Damn, I've made all my BirdMan jumps with a suit that has that old logo. It's still in a good condition a works perfectly.

Well, here's one, sadly the english version haven't been updatet for ages... http://www.helsinki.fi/~masaari/ufu/

Oh, well here's one of me then. Shame the image is a bit grainy and has poor colours (it is grabbed from video and the light is coming straight behind me ). I think you could ask from PD if you could use their images since they have alot of good swoopping images on their site.

Just my opinion but any canopy will fly straight if twists are even and any canopy will turn if twists are not even. I've had several times line twists on my Hornet 135 loaded at 1.4, and all of them have been flying straight or only resulted in a slight turn. Then again I had very fast turning/diving line twist on my former Hornet 150 loaded at 1.25 just because the linetwist were very uneven. From the listed canopies, I think they are all equally safe with the wingloading in question.

Now, that would be cool, anyone have a picture of it?

Yep, I'm with Jussi here. If YOU lose your audible, then why on earth should the manufacturer replace it with new one? I think this is just plain dumb. It is your mistake if you lose it, not the manufacturers.

I guess that's pretty normal, since that happened alot to me when I was flying Hornet 150sqft. But then again, never on my 135sqft Hornet so I guess wingloading could have something to do with this.

Do you know if this trailer is available on internet?

The thing is that these canopies are extremely sensitive to anykind of input. Short lines with high wingloading causes the canopy to turn very fast even when you move in your harness. I'm sure you've read about that you can spin up a highperformance canopy to line twist in opening if your not square in the harness, and that's at very low wingloading compared to most people would be loading these small canopies. I guess you can think of results what kind of an spinning malfunction you could get with canopy this small.

Well I think you meant that Pilot is similar with Hornet, Vision with HeatWave and Solo with Skymaster? Atleast while looking their website Solo has exactly same sizes that Skymaster had, and Pilot seems alot like Hornet to me. Has anyone any information about that A-Max? Looks kinda like Heatwave with H-mod in it. edit: Oh and PISA actually doesn't stop manufacturing sport parachutes. If I understood correctly, all Aerodyne's parachutes will be manufactured at PISA's factories? So only the name changes...

Ahem, I think one basic skill needed in skydiving is to be stable, and I think not beeing able to get stable is an poor excuse for choosing AFF instead of SL.

Dunno, they've probably changed the way they print that label, since I have seen several DOM 00 Hornets with more than 400 jumps with all the labels still being just like brand new. Then I have also seen few DOM 02 Hornets with around 200 jumps and the Hornet label rubbed almost completely off.

Manta 288 - 1 jump Navigator 260 - 10 jumps Navigator 220 - 45 jumps Sabre 150 - 1 jump Hornet 150 - 150+ jumps Sabre 135 - 1 jump And my own canopy is the Hornet.

My favourite is ofcourse my own... (see attachment)