phoenixlpr
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Remember: you have your brakes set, your canopy is not in full flight, but in a kind of flare mode/half breaks. You may start that dive with rear riser if you breaks are still set. You can reproduce it even after opening if you start turning with harness than go for half breaks, the turn will dive and accelerate.
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I'd say if you check you pin, you should check you kill-line PC too. They usually have an indicator window. It can un-cock itselft e.g. when you bag your canopy.
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Any numbers? I spend less than 2 minutes under a Cobalt135 WL 1.7+.
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So you have seen what is different. Someone can jump from 300 sqft to 60 sqft. What is different? That's the canopy and the speed of the canopy. What is constant? The resistance of the jumper and the length of the toggle stoke. Think! What deflection would cause the 100cm of change in steering lines on a 300 sqft and on a 60 sqft? the small is more sensitive. Other side. Jumpers air resistance is about the same. If you make the big one dive, it will return quite fast, because the canopy have lot more resistance than the jumpers body and it would swing back over the jumper. What happens if you make the small one dive? It would never return over your head without any input... I hope I could answer your question.
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I guess you would suggest something else if someone wants to involve in swooping. It has quite a short recovery arc. I had a 90 degrees turn started about 10-15 meters than I was landing with full flare. I guess it saved my butt, but I'm much happier under a Cobalt 135 now.
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Nice pissing contest you have.
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Have you jumped any or are you just talking about? I had a Pilot150, than I move to a Cobalt 135. It felt like an extension to my body. I was not a wild ride. WL 1.3 is not radical, for a novice, but size 105 is small a bit.
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Do not worry to much. They will find their new place without our help either.
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Wow! Someone might have mentioned that.
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I did not, you did...
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I don't think so. Any manufacturer would want to get their R&D money/investment back...
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Do not worry about that. That is not a black/white thing.
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I had about 4 demo jumps on a Vision132. It was quite a wild ride in general. I've bought a Cobalt135 and that turned to be a good choice. Vision can be an excellent canopy, but not for my style.
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All I say after 200-300 jumps none would care that napkin you fly. If you have something in 50 jumps they would tell they had told before....
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Using marketing material ? So quote vs quote! So? Does it prove anything?
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Take it easy and prove them wrong! If you don't have an ambulance ride from about 300 landings they might be wrong....
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Do care more about your legs on landings. Its not so wise to land in a wide stand. It might hurt your joints and if you don't keep your feet in front of each other you have a ticket for a face plant. Have you ever seen a runner in a cow-boy stand before the start? Start using your hips and harness for small corrections on final. Harness turns are the most effective and loose less altitude.
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People with nothing better to do will post about it online... Its cold here, some snow on the ground and even the clouds are reaching the ground. So what to do? We can still dream about the blue sky ....or some bloody accident...
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Well, he should be the topic of this poll than.
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Nothing. He might learn how to fly it right. He'd rather have some canopy control course. Some people call me dead man walking with a Pilot 150 on similar WL and jump jumpers some year ago. A Cobalt should fly quite nice and easy on WL 1.3. I guess if it would be about a Space 170 on WL 1.3 none would have interested so much.
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Wow! What a research project you had! How about having the next research project about the correlation of the porosity of the ribs and flying characteristics? Please keep us posted!
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Really? Please tell me more... How come? Without a visual reference? He was jumping with an ordinary altimeter.
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I can give you an example. A friend of mine jumping a Spectre 210 on regular basis, exit weight about 115 kg. I have seen his first jump on a Springo160. I got a video about it. I did not looked so bad at the first. I have seen a full stall on reviewing his landing from video. I think he got lucky he got the Springo stalled with his usual single motion flare-stab. He has landed on his feet and complaing that the canopy did not give any lift.... Was there a lession here?
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True myths never die.
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Wow! That's awesome!