This video is for licensed skydivers, or those about to be licensed, help choose your first main canopy. I talk about 6 canopies (and 3 runners up) that might be appropriate for new skydivers at the right size and wing loading. Also I talk about how some canopies to avoid.

As always, this is information to supplement your local riggers, instructors, and canopy coaches.

Performance Designs:

Sabre 2: [ Ссылка ]
Spectre: [ Ссылка ]
(Sabre 3, too new to have an opinion either way, but here's the URL) [ Ссылка ]

Aerodyne:

Pilot (9-cell) [ Ссылка ]
Pilot 7 (7-cell) [ Ссылка ]

NZ Aerosports:

Safire 3: [ Ссылка ]

Icarus World:

S-Fire: [ Ссылка ]

Videos referenced:

"Girl's Can't Fly Parachutes" [ Ссылка ]

A tongue-in-cheek title talking about some of the challenges that smaller people have when being pushed to jump wingload-appropriate but size-inappropriate canopies.

Canopy Trim: [ Ссылка ]

Talking about canopy trim/glide/recovery arc.

How We Talk About Canopies [ Ссылка ]

Talking about the terms we use for talking about canopy flight characteristics.

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