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  9. 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... B|

  13. Oh, well here's one of me then. :ph34r: 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.

    juhis-web2.jpg

  14. 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.

  16. 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.

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    The slider stayed half way up the lines and needed a rser flare to bring it down (it's huge).



    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. :)

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    What is the difficulty in flying this little thing? I'm not talking about landing it, of course, which is out of the question for just about anyone. But what's it like to fly it?



    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.

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    the vision is kinda like a heatwave, and solo kinda like a hornet, but both better.



    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...

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    My wife tried static line her first time around, but quit because she couldn't get stable and the S&TA at the DZ couldn't help her very much. Then she went out to Eloy and did AFF with so much success that she skipped a level. Just something to think about...



    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.

  22. 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.