Sabre1Lucke

In Belgium the seal on the reserve pin is obligatory!

Demon Competition 100ft² loaded at 2.1 Turn: 270 (right-turn) - Start in full breakes - Then dubble fronts - Harnasturn for the first 90° - Then single front for the rest I start my turn at 700 ft

My first competition in swooping

My Demon competition 100ft²

Nice,....very nice!! Is it possible to post it on Skydivemovies.com? Great job and nice flying!

Hi Chris, Down the beer-line? Will it be a 'duvel' beer line like in Belgium during the DST Hoping to see you again next year!! Cya, Luc

If your canopy start to 'bucks', check your steering-lines. It seems to be, according to your explanation, that they are too short. When you are in full flight, pull down both risers and check if the tail of your canopy is beeing pulled down by the steering-lines. If it is, then they are to short. Start from flying in brakes, this makes the riser pressure less heavy. You can find enough information if you use the Search function on this forum. Hope this helps

Risers from sunpath with the easy-grip dive loops

No, it IS Willy Boekens, sponsored by and working for Vigil

I was also considering to buy a Katana. It would have been a 107 sqft winload 1.89. But then I did some demo-jumps on a demon 100 sqft wingload 2.1. I decided to buy the Demon because of the price and after +/- 100 jumps I installed the competition line-set on it. Now my canopy rocks!!! It's much faster, it dives more and it's great on back-riser. I also jumped a katana 107 and if I compaire both canopies; the Katana with the Demon competition, I can tell you this (with my limited experience) Frontriserpressure: You will not believe this but the pressure on the Demon is less then on the Katana. Openings: openings of both canopies are great. But I also have to say that I prefer the Katana-openings which are soft and more slowly. Bottom-end-flair: There is more power in the Katana then in the Demon competition but the flair in the Demon is more then enough. For carving this is and advantage for the Katana. Dive an recovery arc: The dive and recovery-arc on the Demon competition is longer then on the Katana. I start my 270° with the Demon competition at 680 -700 ft. With the Katana this was more around the 600-650 ft. Anyway, I like my Demon competition very much. Wingload on my Demon competition: 2.1 I jump it with 23" risers. I really believe this is a great canopy. [url]Check out how Brain Vacher swoops that canopy :o) http://www.safeflightschool.com/?page=downloads&lang=en Lazyboy Ghostrider, Demon test canopy from Performance Variable [mov] Blonde man with the Demon test canopy from Performance Variable [mov] Blindman with the Demon test canopy from Performance Variable [mov]

115 kg, is that your exit weight? If so then your wingload on the Stiletto 150 will be 1.69 lbs/sqft If it's not your exit weight then you have to add 10kg to it. 115kg + 10kg = 125kg --> Wingload 1.84 lbs/sqft. For the 119 sqft your wingload will be 2.13 lbs/sqft or in the case that it was not your exit weight 2.32 lbs/sqft. In both cases this will be to much.

The cut and past part is not working for me. It would be helpfull if somebody could make it a clicky. Thanks

I had a Sabre 150 loaded at 1.32 and a Sabre 135 loaded at 1.47. Both responded quite well on harnas turns. Not like my present canopy, not by a long shot but they responded

I would go for the demon competition from Performance Variable (Now Firebird). It's diving very nice and you can make long swoops with it. unfortunately not in the list

I owned a Sabre1 150 and a Sabre1 135. Both canopies were great, nice openings (a little bit fast but never hard) and the flew very nice. While I was flying that Sabre1 135 I also did about 30 demo-jumps on the Sabre2 135. I did this because I wanted to compaire both canopies in the same size and wingload. The first thing I noticed was that the openings of the Sabre2 were very soft with a much longer snivel. Almost like a Stiletto but without the nervous reaction on bodyposition. The flying-angle from the Sabre1 is a little bit steeper but noticeable. This will make it easier to get back from a long spot. Reaction on toggle input was about the same on both canopies. As for the landings,.... The Sabre2 rocks!! Very nice on frontriser and a lot of flair-power at the end. It dives more the the Sabre1 which makes that this canopy is very nice to swoop. I you are more into traditional landings you will not be disappointed, it's an easy to land canopy. The canopy was loaded at 1.47 Hope this helps

I couldn't explain it better! I do exactly the same as AggieDave explained above.

The risers from Sunpath-productions are really great and you can order them in any size you want. You can take them with the easy-grip dive-loops which are very comfortable. I think that most of the big guys are using them

I already saw the picture from Brain and I looked at it again now. The shape and everything else looks just like my demon. Also the story about that other line-set is the same with the demon. You can order now a different line-set which gives you a demon competition. The demon competition is faster,sharper dives more and has a longer recovery-arc. That by only adjusting the trim.

Is there already a picture available?

I use full brakes for about 5-6 seconds, then go over to dubble fronts and start the turn with harnas input. After the first 90° I switch over to frontriser turn for the last 180°. The only thing I haven't found out yet is the direction of the turn. (Left or right) At the moment I'm using a right turn but I think that I'm going to make the switch to a left turn because then I can make my set-up towards the wind direction.

The trick that cessna54tango is proposing is very good. We use the same trick for our students and it really works!

Check out the video from last weekend on http://www.swoopduvels.be/ Go to Gallery / Video gallary / Vids 2006 / Swoopduvels at Lake Black Moutain!!!! (17 MB)

When I started I used just a common Altimeter from Barigo. After +/- 200 jumps I started to use my Suunto. For me it works fine and I can read the altitude in freefall. BUT I can understand that a lot of peaple have difficulties with that. If I'm doing FS4 I rarely pay attention to my altimeter because all four of us are using a Pro Dytter or Pro Track. In freefly this is different. For that, I must say that the neptune, or (in future) the VISO will be better. You can use it as a primary alti or on it's own but before you decide to by it a few things: 1. If you want to go for swooping afterwards I would not advice it to you. Then you are better of with the neptune or the Viso. This because you can mount these altimeter also on your upper leg or arm. With a wristwatch you are to long distracted from your setup-point when you have to read the alti. 2. On the Suunto altimax, vector,.... you can't block the buttons and if you are doing freefly or FS sometimes it can happen that you switch from alti-mode to compass or barometer because you or somebody else touched the buttons. This can be very annoying!! But still, I like it and I have it always with me

It's difficult to say because I think that the guy's from PD will also perform damn well on those other canopies.

Don't by the Polar if you want to use it for skydiving. I have the Polar AXN 700 and also the Suunto Altimax. The Polar is to slow. Example, I took both up to 13500 ft. The suunto showed the same altitude as the neptune but my Polar had still 11300 ft on the screen. I transfered the data of the polar to my pc and in the grafic it was correct. But you need to read the display when you are skydiving and for that the Polar is really not accurate