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PD is shipping Slink caps along Slinks.
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You may burn your speed faster in a flare turn.
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I remember similar recommendation about landing in half breaks for the first 2 jump..... Its stupid and painful. I feel lucky I was not force to do that. For demonstration of flight abilities I would not go slower than 1/4 breaks. Landing slow is not the only tool at least not in my toolbox. There are stunts that I'm not willing to do any day.
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AFAIK accuracy canopies are designed for sink in in half brakes. Their forward speed is slow in minimal sink rate flight mode. The smaller canopy you fly the more forward speed is needed to stay on level or in minimal sink rate...
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Sure. The slower you start the harder you land. Why do you want to do that? Its usually takes from full flight to 1/4 breaks to put the canopy to level flight. Why should I sacrifice the entry speed on purpose? Even after having 90 degrees flat turn on the final 50m I get better landing than from 1/2 breaks.
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I'd rather consider UV exposure as wear too. Look at the paragliders! AFAIK they have to replace their canopies after some hours flown....
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Vertical or horizontal?
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Buy just small amount in some local shop and try it. Its a compromise: if it too soft it breaks to easily, if it too stiff hard to make it. Silicone tend to soften up after first deployment.
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Its not the arrow, its the indian... Can you decide if he ready or not? One friend of mine got serious injuries under a collapsing Katana. Does it mean anything for me, you or anyone else? I don't think so. You subjective feeling is based on the size, WL and the line trim and density altitude. Can you replicate all of above? I'd like to see that. Even if you could the pilot is different.
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Locking stows: OD 8mm, ID 5mm Small stows: OD 5mm, ID 4mm I'm sorry, I really don't know the quality of the silicone.
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indeed! like the PC in tow discussions :) i used tube stows for years on my locking stows... easier and faster to get through the grommets.. never liked them on my regular stows, tho... didn't hold tight enough with small lines -- i doublestow regular sized rubbers for those. i think i only stopped because it's easier to get a tight stow with rubberbands than tubestows with technora lines I can make them in whatever size I need. I have started to make them, because I was tired of replacing broken rubber bands, they are quite hard to remove them if they break and buying expensive tubes too. 1 euro / piece is a bit too much. I have seen rubber bands on locking stows and silitubes on the rest. that does not make sense for me. 95% os the time I replace locking stows anyway....
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Its really subjective how you feel the canopy you have. Ask yourself did you really helped him with the advice you gave? FYI fear is the dark side.....
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John Sherman also thinks the racer is the epitome of rig design, i know a few people with more experience than he who differ quite vehemently. i also know several master riggers and a couple of DPREs who refuse to pack racers with the newer freebags. They have, combined, hundreds of years in the sport/industry and are equally convinced that rubberbands on a reserve bag are a bad,bad idea. So you can consider our sport as a religion. What we believe might not be true, what we refuse can still work. I still use silicone tube stows made by myself on my rigs, because they work at least for me and they seem to break during deployment and in my hands too and they seem to hold my lines organized manner.
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Lets have one more slice. F1-11 is not F111, my bad.:)
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I don't blame you. I wouldn't buy any of those damn things, either. But I'll bet that those canonipes are made of 0-3 cfm, anyway. No, they are made from splitted hair....
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Do you have enough slack on the breake lines? Its not really a popular canopy. If you want to use it for at least 200-300 get it relined.
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Sure. I loved all of my student canopies I jumped. I'm not in accuracy, so I would not buy F111 canonipes at all.
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I did using trial an error. Buy 2m and check if you can make it. I have some trouble to find me tubes. I can tell you as soon as I find those.
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Very interesting. I tried more than once to make them without success. Couldn't get glue that worked well enough. -Michael What have you used? Rubber or silicon? You need silicon glue for silicon .
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No big deal, d-bag can be attached to the slider RDS style.
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Outer diameter 4mm. Wall thickness 1mm .... That is your homework. I have bought some here: http://www.bondex.hu/
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You can make them Forget rubber tube, silicon is better. I use 4x1x1 tube for stow and a bit thicker for locking stows.
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Want a similar canopy to Vengeance. No Airlocks!
phoenixlpr replied to halorob's topic in Gear and Rigging
Disagree. It collects dirt, garbage, gravel inside the tunnels and its hard to get rid of them because of the airlocks..... -
Oh, the good, old split slider.
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http://bigairsportz.com/article.php#slider I have a Mirage G4 with slider lock risers.It's option from Mirage.So far,no problems. Blue skies This is the best way I have tried so far.