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Have contacted Icarus and they are happy to send me a test canopy(Safire 2 220). Will post results after I have test jumped.

Thanks for the input guys; So a comparison of F111 vs ZP at the same docile wing loading should (in theory) produce no more tendency to "wind up" on opening due to line twists.? "So the original poster might be curious whether that characteristic of small, high performance ZP canopies is in any way carried over to large student ZP canopies designed to be docile." Anyone have thoughts on this. One alternative is to beg a test canopy and try it using experienced pilots.

Anyone out there know of any d.z.'s doing this.? Interested in incidence of line twists leading to malfunctions in very lightly loaded z.p. canopies (0.6 - 0.8) . Scenario - D.Z. running both AFF and S/L training. Love to upgrade all student canopies to Z.P. but worried about higher percentage of s/l deployments having line twists leading to higher malfunction rate with z.p. canopies winding up. Or would the much lower wing loading negate this.?

I'm talking to this guy at the moment regarding a container purchase. He seemed strange from the start.