Hello ladies and gentlemen,
for the first I had to say that my english sometimes looks catastrophically.
But this will everybody see anyway ;o). *bg*.
OK
I often read articles about anti downsizing.
See in this forum. Very very very often in many threads rookie jumpers
are asking about downsizing.
And on every dropzone you can find skygods where tell you about the risks
of highly loaded cannopies.
Every AFF jumpmaster tell his students, that they hadn't to fly
canopies above 1.0 as first cannopies.
When you visit the homepages from the manfuacturers, you can also
read articles about the danger of downsizing (for example: PD's articles
as pdf).
But they ALL don't show in their advertisement clips and pics
low loaded cannopies.
No, only the mega hyper ultra swoop machines wich are be loaded
above 2.x or so are on the pictures.
Turf surfs, long swoops - that is what the main pages shows.
Did you seen really a manfufacturer which has made advertisement with
a 1:1 canopie and a conservative landing? No
(in my opinion john le blanc and the other manufacturers are lied i***ts...).
So all manufacturers and often many experienced jumpers say (rookie) jumpers
that only elipticals are the right stuff.
On the one hand they all warning but on the other hand they show you that when
you want to be really cool you can't fly a F111 monster!.
What are the problems?
Parachutes are very expensivly products.
Skydive are expensive too.
Sure - it is the right way to downsizing slowly. First the 190 square @ 1:1 for 200 jumps or so,
than the 170 for 200, than the 170 (slightly?) eliptical (and so on and so on).
But which jumper has the money to buy a new rig every 100-200 jumps?
The most jumpers hadn't money to make more than 100-150 jumps / year.
When a young jumper get his license he has the problem what to buy.
He want to jump often as possible - but he don't want to jump his "uncool" PD 210 for 2-3 years or so.
Now some rookie jumpers think - why not a Stiletto @ 1.5 from the start?
This is the problem.
The trend in skydiving generally where that are only spectacular landings, only small cannopies, only small rigs
are cool. You wan't to be a really cool guy? So you don't can't get the conservative way...
It is not cool to land a PD 210 conservative - so you must hook it. But a hook under a a Stiletto is much cooler..........
Do U know what I mean?
GrEeTz, Tom