Swoopthereitis

Hey everyone. I had a restless night last night and had a scenario pop in my head and thought what if? I would like to get some ideas and thoughts on it. Ok, many of us have spent hundreds if not thousands of jumps honing in our swooping ability under our heavily loaded X-braced swoop machines. But do we ever practice having to land it in the P's if our life depended on it? I don't mean swoop to the P's I mean land in them. Suppose you jumped at a new dz, got a bad spot, and then got stuck with line twists and found yourself at 1000ft or lower with no decent landing area in sight. Maybe you’re over a city or sub-division with lots of houses, fences, hydro wires, and pools, ect. Or you are over a large wooded area with little or no clearings. Or you just came through some very low cloud and found your pilots GPS was way out of wack. Anyway you get the idea. I know that we should never get our selves in this type of situation, but lets just say we had some really bad luck mad a bad decision or whatever and we find ourselves their. What would you do? Our canopies are designed to swoop and need 100's of feet to come to a stop. Is it possible to sink in an 80sq/ft canopy loaded at 2.2 or 2.4? I'm a little reluctant to try and this is why I'm asking the question. Also if there is any techniques or drills that I should be learning I would like to here about it. So please share your thoughts, idea's and stories of similar situations. I like to think through and plan for even the least likely situations. Blue Skies.

Hey guys, can anyone tell me how a Xaos-27 88sq/ft will fit in a Wings W4? It was built for a 105 Jedi. Is the 35% rule accurate? 88 * 1.35 = 119 (A 120 would be a very tight fit in my container) Velocity 96 was about max. Thanks.

Just want to here what most people think is the better canopy VX or Xaos-27, (Loaded about 2.2) not just for swooping, but for everything. I'm a freeflyer w/ camera and sometimes shoot tandem, but also love to swoop. Thanks for the input Blue ones Ken