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Prodigy CReW canopy?

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We had one donated to the TAMU Skydiving Club, its basically brand spanking new (but an old canopy) but I had never heard of it, nor had anyone else.

Anyone have some info on this beast?
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Prodigy's were what what hot to jump before Lightnings came around. Good CRW canopy, but its trimmed at a different angle then the Lightnings so you can't mix and match them in formations.

PM Parachutist. He bought a couple of thhem gfor cheap to teach new CRW jumpers at Atlanta a bit ago.
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We had one donated to the TAMU Skydiving Club, its basically brand spanking new (but an old canopy) but I had never heard of it, nor had anyone else.

Anyone have some info on this beast?



Prodigy is the only canopy I know of that has Nossir toggles. Nossir toggles are like brake toggles because they pull down on the outside leading edge only, instead of pulling down the whole riser (Very heavy front riser pressure if you grab and pull down the whole riser.. so the toggles make the pressure manageable). They're right where your dive loops would usually be.

Prodigies are trimmed very nose-down, so as Eric mentioned they are not really compatible with the popular Lightning. But I've found that this nose-down trim makes for easy docking for newbies to CReW, because if they are making an approach on the base and they go low, they can just grab some rear riser and regain their position quickly. With the Lightning if you go low then you've pretty much hosed yourself.

Max wing loading of 1:1 makes for good landings. Above that it becomes difficult to have a nice landing. The brake toggles have 2 sections: upper and lower. Use the upper section for landing (Allows you to get more flare). Use the lower section for flying up high & doing CReW (This gives you another 4" of slack so you can keep your brake toggles in hand and pull down on front riser or Nossir without deflecting the tail. For someones's first jump on a Prodigy I always quit doing CReW at about 3,500 & have the jumper go solo, find the stall point, practice flares, etc. below that (No stalls below decision altitude of course).

Packing a Prodigy is slightly different from any other canopy I've seen. (the pack job is the same as typical PRO job, up to laying the canopy down and pressing all the air out. After that there are few unique steps to go through. I have to get out the door right now... if you do not have anyone local who can show you how to pack the Prodigy diaper + retractible pilot chute then let me know and I'll explain.

Any other questions?
Chris

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Thank you for the information both of you! That amkes sense about the steepness of the trim, since I bummed one of the student canopies to match up wingloadings to go do CReW with another jumper jumping the Prodigy and I couldn't stay down with him.
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