pack a hornet 150

[soccerguy 0]

I have a hornet 150 canopy. I have about half soft opening, and the rest are hard. What is the best way to pack this canopy? Dealing with nose, and folding.

[FrogNog 1]

I would recommend you make sure the slider is all the way against the stops. When I have the canopy over my shoulder, after flaking everything, I quarter the slider and ensure the slider is against the stops, and then I fold the tail folds back and forth over the slider (and then each other) like a zipper, to try and help keep the slider from moving when I fold the canopy up and stick it in the bag.

I've only jumped a Hornet 150 once, but I have over 100 jumps on my Hornet 190, and once I payed attention to the slider, I found it always opened smooth, instead of "sometimes smooth, sometimes abrupt."

The nose I found didn't really matter that much, at least on my 190. If I rolled the nose, I just got worse end cell closure on opening (at 1.15 lb/sf loading). So I would just leave the nose hanging, or push the entire nose straight back into the pack job just far enough that the sides of the pack job "cocoon" would hide the nose. On my Hornet I can't say if that made a difference.

[michaelflying 0]

Did about 200 jumps on a hornet 150 and rolled nose all the time and kept the tail tight.

good luck

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[Squeak 17]

i JUMP a 150 loaded at abvout 1.35:1, I pull trhe slder towards the front (more than the back) to cover the nose and I push the nodse in a little but i don't roll it. I do roll the tail tight about 10 times.

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