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- From: mark@vti.com (Mark Smith)
- Subject: Re: Choosing a Canopy
- Message-ID: <BxtM0A.KxD@vti.com>
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- References: <1992Nov16.153241.17559@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:00:09 GMT
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- Jim Beutel (beutel@chdasic.sps.mot.com) wrote:
- : My weight is 160-165 and have made several jumps with a
- : 200 Raider (?) 7 cell main. Have 20 total freefalls and
- : am fairly aggressive in all other sports.
- :
- : Have been considering the PD. 190
-
- I'm pretty conservative in canopy selections (i.e. I don't
- believe in over-wing loading your canopy to squeeze out that
- last drop of performance), but I believe that a PD 190 would
- probably be too big for you.
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