The Para Commander (PC) did indeed flare. I did many jumps on one doing displays, water jumps and fun jumping. It was a gentle canopy as long as you respected the ideal that when it was first available it was THE canopy to have and was High Performance!! As Bob Ackerman said to me when I first used it 'Abuse it at altitude but respect it close to the ground'. As with the square you had to practice, practice and practice again. Hook turns could hurt if you got them wrong and downwind
landings doing accuracy was not for the faint hearted. To flare the PC on demos I always found it was best to run it downwind to get some speed up, hook turn it and then either pull down on the rear risers or both toggles. You would get a good landing provided you got it right. On some displays it was not unheard of to step out of the harness on landing. It was indeed a gentelmans canopy.
Pete Padley,D608
