Landing into the wind was: Injury - JSC, South Africa

[CanEHdian 0]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would the outcome have been different if the same exact approach would have been upwind? (re: canopy levelling off quicker/recovery arc because of facing the wind...)

Thanks,
Al

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[justinb138 0]

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(re: canopy levelling off quicker/recovery arc because of facing the wind...)

Your canopy does not level off/recover quicker upwind than it does downwind.

[ianmdrennan 2]

This has been discussed numerous times in the swooping forum, please feel free to search that forum and post any questions you may have regarding the topic there.

Lets keep this thread about the incident please.

Thanks!

Blues,
Ian

edit: Here is a starting point Now that this is in the swooping forums I'm going to lock this so the conversation, if any, can be continued in the original thread.

Edit: Whoops, the original thread is locked too. Still the topic has been beaten to death but if you really, really, really want to go through it again just make a new thread here

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