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You really need to understand the mechanics of how the reserve deployment works and what exactly pulling the reserve handle achieves. In short, your theory of deploying your reserve it in the plane and then jumping out is less likely to work (let alone work properly) then exiting and pulling silver as soon as you clear the airplane. Pull silver = pull the pin that holds the container closed, which in turn lets the spring loaded reserve PC launch away from the container. In stiatuion A (deploy in the plane), you end up with an open reserve container, and your reserve PC either on the floor or in some jumpers face. You may also possibly end up with the freebag that fell out on the floor, but that's highly unlikely in a crouched position with a closed main container. Once you exit, you will very likely either drag your reserve PC and resulting in either a ghetto d-bag like deployment with your reserve very likely going over the horizontal stabilizer OR trailing your reserve PC out the door and getting a regular reserve deployment just like you would have if you pulled silver 1 sec out, but with much more unnecessary risk. If you were in front of me and popped the reserve in the plane on purpose, I would have a very serious conversation with you afterwards provided we both survive. And I am sure others, especially the pilot would have very strong words as well.

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Not directed at you. One of the most ignorant things to say is "that canopy was too big for me". Oh really ??? Having heard that from a 180lbs 50 year old guy with 60 jumps regarding a Spectre190 was just mind boggling. My point is that there is zero reason for you to skip a size when downsizing. Feel free to disagree.

you know what's funny ? Neither one of those guys have ever been the first ones to jump anything that at that point has been the tallest in the world. The people who popped the object's cherries were always the ones who stay under the media radar.

what if someone changes out the reserve, the packing card stays with the H&C. It's not mandatory for the card and reserve panel to match And that brings me to my personal pet peeve - people who insist that the data card goes with the container. Ever seen the old style data cards ? They list nothing but the reserve canopy info ! (pic attached) the cards in my Rig come from the H&C mfg. those cards also record any work carried out on the TSO'd H&C, It's my understanding that the panel on the reserve is there for just such reasons, so that in the absence of a Card repack evidence and history is readily available. The only reserves that I am aware of having a tail data label is the PDR and Optimum series from Performance Designs. There may be others, but the tail checkboxes are by not means an industry standard. By your logic, what happens when your data card is the generic type (the generic PIA design, which in my experience is very common), with no attribute to a particular manufacturer ? (example attached)

what if someone changes out the reserve, the packing card stays with the H&C. It's not mandatory for the card and reserve panel to match And that brings me to my personal pet peeve - people who insist that the data card goes with the container. Ever seen the old style data cards ? They list nothing but the reserve canopy info ! (pic attached)

Face in Squat Fall out, keep tucking, grab shins

Please, do explain. We go slower than others and our wings have less internal pressure. So we have more squishy wings. That and it would just be another cool thing to have. You had me at "squishy" You would probably be equally excited to have Louieloops and a bellyband :)

Please, do explain.

I am sure there are some similarities, but... a canopy will have multiple cross-braces PER CELL lined up chordwise. They (a set of two per cell) are attached diagonally at the top and bottom skin (see pic) airlocks are built to span the cell and are attached at the bottomskin and at the ribs to topskin junction, and only cover the distance from the leading edge halfway to the B line attachment point (using a Jedei as an example, as that's what is sitting in front of me) I think if one was to quote the bracing effects of the airlock, it would be more of a torsion bar as opposed to true crossbracing - the airlock will do very little to prevent vertical distortion of the cell. I am not an designer nor an aerodynamics engineer, so it woudl be interesting to hear from someone who is (i.e. I'd love to hear Brain Germain's response to this)

On a more serious note, I wonder about the feasability of having a MR add rings to the main lift web to make a chest rig attachment point on a skydiving rig for intentional cutaways. That would put a Baser to good use. Will it accept a square reserve? I don't believe that poptop is TSOd for square use. Nevertheless, wouldn't using the same MR added rings for hooking up a tershiary canopy that you dbag/trashbag out of the plane and subsequently cutaway be a cleaner solution which will result in much lower rate of lost freebags ?

sure did ! Just edited the post. Thank you !

Not everyone needs an elliptical canopy. the sabre 2 is elliptical.. Take a look at what the Sabre2 looks like : http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/linetrims/SA_097-170P02LT.pdf and now look at the Vengeance : http://www.performancedesigns.com/docs/linetrims/VN_089-170LT.pdf Quite a difference, eh ? PD calls Sabre2 semi-elliptical, and the Vengeance fully elliptical.

This would be nice. considering the billions of things that random people may have, the chances of matching someone who : is on this website .........has what you want ....................wants what you are trading (I am trying to show how you are looking for a subset within a subset, which basically means you are looking for a needle in a warehouse of haystacks) Has a very small change of success, and will result in a clusterfuck of ads for many useless things. If one has something they dont want and wants something else, that's completely unrelated, it is a multitude of times simpler to sell the unwanted thing, and use the cash to buy whatever it is that you wanted. Of course some are just too damn unmotivated (lazy) to sell their stuff. - Realist

Airlocks prevent (slow down) the air from escaping out the nose. Crossports help equalize internal pressure. Thus the only way your statement makes sense (at least to me) is if your canopy has no crossports OR if it gets an extremely rapid and equally extremely uneven inflation. personally, I call BS. (I have owned Jedeis and Samurais. I ahve also jumped Vengeances and Lotuses) Considering that the rumor mill was saying that Vengeance was discontinued due to being extremely elliptical, my best guess is that's the same reason why yours opens the way it does. Oh, and body position, of course ! :)

My guess it's the later - little demand, thus very limited production. I am also fairly certain that a crossbrace is more expensive to manufacture. Also, I think comparing a crossbraced to an airlocked canopy is like comparing apples to walnuts. The purposes of those two features are completely different.

If I had to *GUESS* I would say an I34 would much more sensible first digit is the reserve packtray, second is the main packtray chart here : http://www.velocityrigs.com/support.php?link=containerSize As always, the best answer comes straight from the maker : http://www.velocityrigs.com/support.php

Now that this moved into the whole FAR debate, I am loosing interest. But I think most people will agree that safety comes way ahead of legality. If one is doing a jump from 1700ft with WS and intending to do a low pull, then a BASE rig is many times safer than a skydiving rig. This is eerie similar to TJ Bartlett going in in 2008. RIP Matt

Yes, it is a violation of the FARs if he did not have a reserve. Incorrect. There is no rule regulating letting a tandem passenger on an ultralight glider (paraglider) going overboard. As long as its not over National Park land (its called aerial delivery then and is illegal). Tandem paragliders are governed by FAR103, thus all limitations of FAR91 apply.

Its sink rate ;) Time the descent from from 1K to landing. Divide.

if you go to their page : http://naaero.com/sport/parafoil.htm and click on North American Aerodynamics, Inc. on the bottom you get their email addy as "naa AT naaero.com"

I politely disagree with you on all counts. well, that was my personal opinion and thanks for not jumping on my ass for misinforming OP. What would be a fair price for this set up then? I'm not being sarcastic, don't get me wrong. I jumped a 30 y.o. rigs back home, D-5 D-6 UT-15, but back then we didn't have so many manufacturers offering h/c for less then $2000.reserves for $11-$13 hundred and mains for $15-$20 hundred. just an opinion from a noob, or may be I'm just trying to be a cool smart ass who doesn't know sport/industry well. The problem is that the OP asked for a reasonable price, and you jumped in with very little knowledge and offered an opinion without any factual or statistical backing. I know plenty of people (myself included) who wouldn't think twice about jumping a 30 year old UT15, as long as it was in good shape. The D5/6 I'd hang on the wall. BTW many Comrades are still putting PZ81's as reserves in their rigs. Of course those are still freshly manufactured, but the design has got to be pretty damn old. Not to mention those pesky pilots with their bailout rigs that have the rounds designed many, many moons ago.

I politely disagree with you on all counts.

I have had a few J4 Javelins with 210ZP canopies (Sabre and Sabre2 and Spectre) which worked well, but were definitely the largest canopies I would feel safe putting in there. Thus, a PD210 F111 or even a PD230 F111 with microlines should be ok fits. Although, a hard opening (provided your lineset is in trim) should be easily solved by a larger slider or by adding pockets to it. If you really like your canopy, you can also have it relined with Dacron lines, but that's a $300 investment.

The same PayPal who told me I was not entitled to a refund after a seller sold me a bricked network power controller, because "I had received the shipment"? Oh, yeah, that works really well. The seller never responded to my messages, and his eBay account vanished at the same time. Oh, yeah, PayPal really has your back. Paypal has gone leaps and bounds to booster both Buyer and Seller protection, but at the end it's still merely a payment processor. Imagine that you sent the seller of your bricked item a money order - the transaction would be no different, yet you would probably not go badmouthing the bank that issued the MO since their only duty was to honor the payment when presented. Your problem is first and foremost with the seller, and secondly with eBay (who as of a few years ago offer a very solid Buyer Protection program, which in your case would have had you send the product back within a reasonable amount of time and upon proof of delivery, they would issue a refund to you, regardless of sellers objections) Pretty much any vendor or service provider that you use is bound to either make a mistake or upset you through some of their action. If you decide to forgo doing business with that entity you will pretty soon find yourself living in the cave and eating ground worms.