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Also consider how you unstow your breaks and what your off heading procedures will be. It has been talked about on here a lot, but remember if you decide to unstow your break when you are low to the ground, the faster and more you let them up the more your canopy will surge forward and dive. Learn to unstow them but with out changing the amount of breaks your canopy is flying in, then let your breaks off slowly until it is time to flare from what ever position you reach. At 173ft I rarely get the canopy to full flight, it is much more normal for me to only reach half breaks before I flare from there to land. Small heading corrections can be made by letting you breaks up unevenly. There are times when I am too low and the only option is a gentle rear riser flare and accepting a rolled out landing. Preplan your off heading procedures. On the objects I have been jumping I decided it is better to strike the object with a little equal rear riser input and slide the short way to the ground, than it is to toggle or rear riser turn the canopy into the floor. All I am saying is think it through before the jump and don’t just react the way you would when opening on your higher objects you could make things worse. I corrected a 90L with a little too much input off the 173ft E and ended up flat on my back in the Talus Think your options though before hand.

You mean 265 and 245 dont you? you have to make sure every thing is clear for adrian or he will start downsizing