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Following this thread I am wondering what would be the influence of a sail slider on terminal velocity opening besides the direct consequence of slowing it down.

Thanks.

Jul.

Degregaded heading performance.

I'm personally not a fan of sail sliders on BASE jumps. They're pretty well out of the mainstream at this point. If I wanted to slow my opening down, I'd go with smaller mesh, and after that I'd start to reconsider the jump.

My impression also has been that sail slliders offer less consistency than mesh sliders. This seems to be true in terms of heading performance, and also altitude required for an open canopy.

A friend of mine has back problems, but managed to make it through a 3-week trip to the big walls in Europe with a mesh slider (large holes, I think) and careful rolling of the nose on his vented canopy. I really can't imagine a situation in which I would choose to use a sail slider.

Michael

I have "back problems" too (twice broken, 3 vertebrae fused,one vertebrae replaced with a cage). I can still tolerate large hole mesh and a ZP topskin at terminal.

I can't imagine how bad your back would have to be for you to _need_ a sail slider.