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Dispite all the hype, the Peregrine isn't really a Petra copy. Petra in my opinion simply lead PD to accelerate R&D on an existing project. Dispite that at first glance they appear similar, If you look closer at the 2 wings you'll see they are very different. The only thing they share is the schuman planform i.e an elliptical leading edge. The rest of their planforms are not the same. It's unfair to accuse PD of copying the Petra, they used a planform that the petra also used and lets face it.... Icarus did not invent the idea of an elliptical leading edge, it's been around since the 80's since it was conceived by Mr Schuman and gets used lots on paragliders and speed wings. Did Icarus copy the Velo when they made JVX? probably not but because it has x-braces you could say they did, but did they get all the criticism PD seem to be getting over the Peregrine vs Petra? Doubt it.

Someone correct me if i'm wrong. It depends on the event. Power events like speed or distance the top guys are now on Petra's or Peregrine's loading up to around 3! Zone acc they are on VC's and JVX loaded lower so they can stop them, probably around 2.2 + Look at Dubai last year though, Curt won with a VC whilst some had the PD "Prototype" which evolved into the Peregrine. The wing and loading that works is the wing and loading that the pilot can get consistently on the gates safely like Ian said. The right combination of Pilot, Wing and Loading is the wining formula, that and an element of luck, a bad day or an unfortunate wind can spoil any pilots competition. There's no point having the fastest wing if you can't score with it!

I have just got myself a VISO II as a second digital alti for swoop training, i intend to use it as a vertical speed indicator and i'm aware that i can play back a canopy flight after each jump to evaluate my vertical speed during various phases of my rotation. Here's the question: If i set the Viso to be an Alti instead of Speed will it still re-play my vertical speed as before or will it only re-play the altitude values? In an ideal world i'd like to use it as a 2nd alti should my hip mounted one fail in flight or if i can't see it spinning twists, malfunctions etc. I still want to have access to real time vertical speeds for play back and not just the maximum canopy speed snapshots that you can get

I've heard that there is a new Jvx coming out or even already released, i'm not talking about Petra. Does anyone know about this or even have one?

My understanding is that they are always improving it so they may have changed a few subtle things in it's design but chances are only PD and a select few actually know what those differences are. I had an inital hard snatch on my velo for several jumps when i got it but finally sorted it out. I'm most likely gonna say stuff you already know or have tried but you never know, it may be of help..... What size is your pilotchute? and is it zp or f111. That may be partly to blame as an oversized one will decellerate the D-Bag off your back at such a rate it's gonna snatch hard, also try putting a few extra rolls on the tail and make sure the slider is up against the stops before bagging the canopy. . There are other things to like riser tuck tabs on your container which can cause hard openings which is why UPT make magnetic ones.

The riser stall occurs when you exceed the critical AoA, this can occur at high speed or low speed, it's simply when you've pulled the tail down so much that you no longer have a wing, its more or an airbrake instead. Just like putting you hand out the window of a speeding car and change the angle of your hand, you can use the angle to create lift but at a certain point you'll change the angle so much that the wind no longer forces your hand up and instead it looses lift get gets blown backwards. The toggle stall is pretty much a combination of what you've said, basically you've slowed down your "ram air" wing so much that it's no longer creating lift, but also there is little or no ram air, so the wing will loose shape and eventually collapse, the wing tips bend back and touch because the brakes (bend down fabric) cause drag and pull the trailing edge tips back. Even at speed if you pull your toggles the brakes are applying a force to the trailing edge tips, but they don't bend backwards because that force is opposed by the pressure in the wing from the ram air/forward speed. The only thing you got wrong was the bit about head wind. A head wind would only make a difference if you were stationary on the ground. In flight, essentially there is no wind, i say this because you are travelling through it like a boat in a river, you canopy will fly at the same speeds it always does regardless of headwind/downwind etc, it's only your ground speed that changes. Lots of people struggle with this concept, but use the river idea, you are in the river getting pused by the flow and the river bank is the ground/intended landing area, no mateer how fast you boat travels it's always being pushed a certain direction by the flow, so if you face into the flow travelling at 20kts and the flow is 20kts, then the result is you aren't moving forward along the river bank, but your still doing 20kts!

practice leaning forward whilst doing your turn and plaining out at altitude, you'll soon get used to it, you can lean much further forward once you've let go of the riser onto brakes as your sholder joint has it's limits. Get used to leaning on your chest strap too, you soon learn to trust it especially if it's loose and you don't feel it until you think your about to fall out. Soon you'll be leaning so far foward you'll want a longer strap or doing shit like this where trusting your chest strap is pretty much a must http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-XsUF0C44

Optimum 113, Currently a tightly squeezed mamba 104 but it's built for a Velo 90. It's a V314 like 304 only a fraction longer and thiner, I'm tall! Micron logos on both sidewalls and no logos on the pads or mud flaps as they could get scuffed when packing ;). Spacer foam, magnetic riser covers, louiloop long risers, soft pad etc etc, basically every option except skyhook or RSL for personal reasons. The build quality is amazing, worth every penny!!!

I might be stating the obvious but the Pilot is a 9 cell and the storm is a 7cell. Naturally there will be some differences, although some say the Storm flies like it's a 9 cell. I've jumped Pilots but never a storm. The Pilot is easy to compare to a sabre 2 except the sabre 2 is slightly steeper and dare i say it has slightly more performance, the pilot turns faster and recovers from a dive quicker due to it's trim and short lines. Not quite the comparason you wanted but if you've perhaps tried a sabre2 it'll give you a bit of an idea. Have a read in the gear reviews on here, there might be some good info

I reckon with the production cost and extra pack volume such a canopy would take a long time to become accepted, I think thats why Z bracing didn't take off before. I wonder how ridged such a canopy would be? I.e seriously high riser pressure, and perhaps a short recovery arc due to the extra lift etc etc. Clearly thats something they are working on and on the flip side there are advantages too to have such a ridged wing with less lines. It's exciting to see just how HP canopies are evolving. I hope we get more and more swoopers which will give HP canopies a bigger market share and hopefully companies will spend more on R&D and possibly reduce the cost as they will sell more of them.

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The best thin is to get some advice in person at your DZ and practice the techniques you get shown. Any new canopy is going to be tricky to pack especially if you don't have much packing experience. Have a look on youtube amongst Performance designs videos. There are some on there with Nick packing a large canopy and another showing a 135. If you don't already pack that way it's a good demonstration of how to go about it and he gives lots of good advice about it to. Good luck!

Maybe he has mad skillz, perhaps he is differnt! Some kids are just too cool for school. With that in mind, I reckon he should have a velo 75 main and just to be more cool have a velo as a reserve too, but say an 84 as he'll want a bigger canopy after poohing him self under a mal. Why buy big now only to downsize every 3 jumps as he's just so awesome under canopy and was born with all the experience and skill he'll never need to learn, we shouldn't hold back his progression! Why learn how to fly in a trainer plane when you could just borrow an f16? What could possibly go wrong?

I'm quite interested in getting one of these myself because of the super clean deployments. Has anyone had any issues with wear on the lineset from friction during deployment after say 100- 200 jumps?

+3 that, really good explaination. I t was once explained to me that for distance don't be afraid to get on to toggles before you completely melt the rear risers. It all about using the best performance from both control surfaces. I've just downsized to a 104 and I'm currently working out how long i should be on rears before transitioning to get the longest swoop, it's early days but its very different from my last canopy, i'm about to change my risers for longer ones which will no doubt change everything yet again

I've got an Icon and i've got a Micron on it's way. I'm pretty happy with the options that Upt offer on the micron, but it would be nice to see some more options *Pin stripe options on Split colour Vectors *I'd like to see an AAD controler routed somewhere so i can turn it off after opening to avoid aad fires when swooping. *I'd like a belly band option thats not just a gash after thought buckled to the hip rings. Thats a pretty small list because I reckon Vectors have loads of options available and they are in my opinion the best containers on the market.