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Round reserves still?

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There are probably other small DZs with old gear out there, that one shutdown earlier this year, still with the same student gear.

Seth



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I suspect that is why the Canadian Sports Parachuting Association is reluctant to ban round reserves.
Sure they banned round mains - for students - a decade or more ago, but the there are still a handful of old-school skydiving schools that still have round reserves in their student gear.
Similarly, many of those round reserves are close to thirty years old, have been repacked a bazillion times and have stretch marks from more tensile test than we care to remember.
Oh! Did I mention that half those round reserves were from the acid-mesh era?

The good news is that most progressive Canadian DZs loan square reserves to students. For example, Pitt Meadows bought a batch of Tempo 250s back in 1996 and banned round reserves for licensed jumpers three years ago ... something to do with the Fraser River on one side of the DZ and a town on a second side of the DZ.

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There are also those who feel a round reserve on a student is good for variety of reason and operate on the prairies where even a bad spot puts a student in an open field.

But that's an arguement for another thread. THere are pros and cons for both square and rounds on a students back. I put rounds on mine but if my DZ was Pit Meadows with all those trees, rounds would scare the hell out of me.

Pros and cons.;)
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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