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About the safire 1, people will tell you it hasnt got good flare but it just takes a little while to dial it in i almost sold mine after a few jumps because i just couldnt get it but decided to keep trying and now have found the sweet spot and love it. The only other from your list i've jumped is the safire 2 and really liked it but other than 8 jumps on a spectre i didnt have anything "semi elliptical" to compare it to. Just my 2p

Does it really matter... who actually cares if your a skydiver? Its just a hobby/career not an elite group

Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good plane? I have never heard someone say this apart from skydivers?! Do people actually ever ask it?

Took me a total of about 6/7 months to get to level 5! so gave up with the UK and went to empuriabrava for a week and came back with my A licence

Ive got an AAD, whereabouts do you jump? wheres the best place in your eyes for fun jumpers in new zealand? Max

I'm moving to new zealand for a while and have been looking at the dropzones round where i was planning on staying, national park, near taupo. Just wondering if anyone has any experience of jumping as a fun jumper round taupo or any of NZ for that matter as i am aware that it is mainly tandems? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Max

I don't know about katanas or velocity's but i doubt the op is looking for one of these seeing that he only has 20odd jumps and is also looking for a 170. I think in the op's situation my comment stands. I didnt say that the majority of situations were long spots but meant in the majority of situation's that involve a long spot the 9 cell will get you back better. Just for the record i am having no trouble with my spotting.

ok so in the majority of situations the 9 cell will get you back from a longer spot better then the 7 cell will, thus meaning you will probably have to walk farther under the 7 cell, if you are coming back from a long spot.

Omg! did i really need to say flown in exactly the same way aswell!....

Ok let me ask you... if the same person was jumping equally sized canopies one a spectre and one a sabre2 in the exact same conditions, which one would travel further?

Did I say anything about lack of spotting ability or getting a different canopy? I really tried to make it clear that I was talking about you and your twin brother, who were late divers on a bigway and the organizer, billvon, led you out on a bad spot. Dave The very fact that you had to specify particular models indicates that just knowing the number of cells is insufficient information. And since we're late divers the chances are that we are running with the wind, and the one with the lower wing loading will go farther regardless of number of cells. Fact is, skybill's statement "You will walk further with the 7" is only correct under a very limited set of circumstances, and most of the time your walking distance has nothing to do with the number of cells in the canopy. But they are saying that the wing loadings are equal! so everything is equal apart from the number of cells! and apart from the taper, trim and (possibly) size of the canopy. Just to name a few off'f the top of my head. Haha ok fair one.

Did I say anything about lack of spotting ability or getting a different canopy? I really tried to make it clear that I was talking about you and your twin brother, who were late divers on a bigway and the organizer, billvon, led you out on a bad spot. Dave The very fact that you had to specify particular models indicates that just knowing the number of cells is insufficient information. And since we're late divers the chances are that we are running with the wind, and the one with the lower wing loading will go farther regardless of number of cells. Fact is, skybill's statement "You will walk further with the 7" is only correct under a very limited set of circumstances, and most of the time your walking distance has nothing to do with the number of cells in the canopy. But they are saying that the wing loadings are equal! so everything is equal apart from the number of cells!

2,400ft using a safire, was good fun, would like to do more.

Have you thought about just using black tape or something so you can take it off when you do get a different rig?

Picture this, me and my colleagues have been offerd free beer and food all night at the pub local to our yard tonight during their beer festival due to us putting up a couple of marquees for it last night after work! Imagine how pissed off i was when i had to come home from work because i was so ill and had a temperature of over 102 ! Now i cant bring myself to get out of bed to go and drink as much free beer and eat as much hog roast as i want Just had to vent... Thanks for listening!

I may be missing something here but i dont think time in sport has much to do with anything. You could have someone with 200 jumps in 3 years but spends no time at the dz apart from when they are garunteed jumping on good weather days, or someone that has racked up 200 in 8 months but spent more time at the dz trying to get those jumps in and therefore spending more time around the sport? Max

I havent got it yet should be through this week, have no idea about the reserve because i havent seen the package.

I will have soon

Hi i really need to get holdof sabre2ooth (ryan Walker) if anyone knows how i can could you plaeslet me know. Cheers

You're a genuine guru Sangi

Do you think i can get both in there?

http://www.ukskydiver.co.uk/cms/forums/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=16216

Im not sure on the actual reasons but the general feelings have to do with ability to see emergency handles and vision and hearing impairment under canopy.

In the UK you have to have a B license to jump a full face. Max