Jackson

Thanks! I've already read that. I guess I was just looking for some re-assurance since so many people seem to place so much value solely on jump #'s. That makes me feel a bit better... thanks!

Nope, just 1 person. I was just trying to be as vague as possible about who it was by not using he/she.

My S/O is wanting to downsize. This person is (as far as I've seen) a very heads up canopy pilot. They have done nothing to 'scare' me. As a matter-of-fact, a very knowledgeable friend of ours that works for a well known canopy manufacturer that has seen them fly their current canopy for the last least a year and a half thinks they'll be fine under a crossbraced 79 and gave them a demo already. That being said...all I know is when I met this person, they were jumping a non-crossbraced, elliptical 95, loaded at ~1.78. About 150ish jumps ago they downsized to a non-crossbraced, elliptical 85 loaded at ~2.0. They have already demo-ed a crossbraced 79 loaded at ~2.2. They currently have about 450 jumps. If they're going to go crossbraced is it bad to downsize at the same time? I feel comfortable with what their flying now but something about them flying a crossbraced pushes me over the edge. Opinons please... Thanks!