xaos-21

[Flyfreak 0]

Has anyone ordered a new Xaos -21 I am anxious to order a xaos-21 88
please , If you have jumped it ,tell me how it flyes and opens compared to a velocity or fx since I cant demo
one in my country.
thanks!!!

[PhreeZone 20]

Do a search for Xaos and others have broken the info down for you already. over all I guess ita a Super-FX
I'm not sure what to put here right now.....

[freeflyguy 0]

Hmm.
I haven't completely explored it yet, but I have been jumping the XAOS-21 100 lately. I have a 98 on order. It will be here in a couple of weeks.
My first cross brace, but I will tell you what I know, so far. I have jumped a lot of stilletos with the heaviest loading on that a 120 at about 1.9. My impression, is that a stilleto is a little more flighty than even a XAOS loaded at 2.1. On a stilleto at that wing loading, it seems if you have bad line twists, you get a reserve ride. I haven't spun up a stilleto, But I did spin up the XAOS twice. The first time I saw it coming, gulped and kicked the wrong way, during deployment into another twist. It opened, and began flying straight, much to my surprise. So I kicked out of it and off I flew. The other twist, I saw it coming on deployment, waited, and it just spun out of the twist on it;s own the last bit of deployment. Overall, I think they are even more stable than a stilletto. As far as a velocity. I have jumped the 111 a couple times. It seems to dance around a bit more on opening. And really doesn't "seem" to be loaded a lot lighter than the XAOS 100. The other thing about the XAOS openings is, you don't want to hop n pop from 2000. Or at least I don't. It seems to have consistant, long opening. Nice, but a bit unnerving at first.
As far as landing it. I finally got one perfect swoop the other day. Nice carving 270 starting at about 7 or 800 feet. The thing just keeps on going. I was a bit on the high end of the place to turn. But I like the dive, it gives time to set up for the landing. I could feel the g's loading real heavy in the harness, before I gave it input to plane it out. Then just a small bump on the toggles, and start the landing. Holy Smokes. Most of my other turns have been very conservative, coming out of the dive before I had too. With that in mind a straight in landing is no big deal. Just flare it all the way out, slide 20 feet or so, run 10 and you're done. It will go forever though. You must be able to judge where you will end up, or you will hit something.
My thoughts, but like I said, I am new to a crossbrace so I can't tell you everything about them. I am very careful, and talk about almost every landing with some of the incredible canopy pilots we have here at Kapowsin. Skymonkey knows who I am talking about. Be Careful, but overall, it seems to be a nice canopy that I will have fun on for a long time.