Hello there,
I have 340 jump and most of them I have been flying a rather old and used sabre1 150ft (year 91 and 1000+ jumps). I weight around 75kg (165lbs) plus my gear weight which I am not sure but aprox. 25lbs. It's in good conditions but I want to buy a new one. I am not jumping as much as I'd like and I want to keep myself safe but, on the other side, buying a canopy requires quite an effort (financially) from me so I want to make the right choice without compromising any security issues.
Basically for what I have decided so far I am going to buy a sabre2. I have a friend that owns two brand new (135 and 150) and I want to decide for one of them carefully, I can try them both and I think I'll try the 150 this weekend. I have been reading a bunch of articles in the PD site and in the size chart they provide I would fall in the MAX category of the 135 and that worries me a little. I am not jumping as much as I'd like, on the contrary, quite less, but I am planning on doing some training in the states sometime in the following months and maybe start jumping a bit more, but I hardly consider myself to be in the expert or max category of any canopy.
With all this personal background, any advice? How much should I based my decision into that chart? Other considerations? What about the wing load (1.26 on the 150ft and 1.4 on the 135ft) ?
Thanks
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