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Yo!

Made a few skydives last weekend with BaseX canopy and would like to share my impressions. The canopy was unvented BaseX 300 sq.ft. packed in BaseR container. 2-8s delays with large mesh slider and a 36" ZP PC.

The openings were great, less hard than I'm used to with my Flik 322 with vents&valves and a bit harder than with Mojo 310 with sail slider for similar delay out of an airplane. With good body position, the openings were on-heading (got a couple of bad exits when doing short delays - the chest-mount reserve adds drag and skews the balance). Good solid inflation in all cells.

Really liked the snappy responses to rear riser inputs - making 180's was quick and easy, a modest force on the rear riser is enough for a quick turn. The toggle turns are quite mushy and less snappy than that of Mojo 310, and about the same as Flik 322. The stalls with toggles stowed were mushy, less backward motion than on Flik, the PC is mostly hanging somewhere up there, not at the front of the nose, more effort is required to make aggressive stall than with Flik 322 (I guess, it's due to absence of vents, less of "sudden switch of airflow" effect than with vents). Toggle stalls created nice bowties compared to more efficiently flying backwards, more square Flik (again, vents!).

Deep brakes are very stable, can sink at <0.5 glide ratio in statically held brakes, between 0 and ~0.5 a bit of pumping is required for stability (this might improve with more practice).

The glide ratio in full flight is awesome! The canopy seems to be trimmed for max glide, giving a bit of rear riser or toggle input did not improve the already great glide.

Landings were sweet! Nice horizontal surf with full power flare. This canopy has 5 upper control lines. Really easy tiptoe landings.

I know they did quite a few tweaks and retrims since the first prototypes and I think they did a great job.

That's all for now. Flame on, biatches!

Yuri

good body position like this? you were stable . . .IN A TURN!
i wonder how an unvented canopy would do in that senario ? ? ?
"well, actually, my body -kind of- turned *ALMOST* 90 to the left"!? @2:18

That's a great SKYDIVING canopy you got there.

Have you posted that review on Dropzone? The skydivers will be most interested.


_justin

Do you have any feedback on openings (slider up or down) in the BASE environment?

No.

Judging by that video you definantly need a vented canopy....so why so impressed with non vented??

Are you working for, sponsored by, or invested in the BaseX?

if its so great then why dont u and your buddy sonic come for a base jump with it

instead of a skydive

ill tell u why because its not a base canopy
and this is a base jumping forum take that peace of shit canopy to dropzone .com
and talk about it there

I njust think that its absoluty pathetic that they call it the base-x
and the guy who made it wont base jump.
He wont even Jump if he had a flick or a mojo

Yuri why dont you get off your couch
and come do ground crew for me
that way u can see what a base jump looks like


TOM A I think this topic should be moved to a skydiving forum because the BASE-X is not a base canopy

Just because u call a card board box a BASE canopy
doesn't make it one

Who's the guy that was at BD last year that was marketing it? He jumped it, I just assumed that he made it?!?!?!

He is Sonic And he jumped a container called the BASER not the canopy

and Im sorry but bridge day is not a base jump
I would jump a stiletto in my base rig off that bridge if they let me.

it a great place to see old friends make new ones and if u never jumped make your first

after that its just a circus which i love because in a circus freak
but its not a base jump .

>>but its not a base jump<<

Tell that to Rick Stanley, Steve Gyrsting, and Brian Schubert.

Not to mention all the owners of broken Bridge Day bones . . .

NickD

Did you not say something along the same lines about the Potato bridge not being a "real" BASE jump?

You could tell that to a longer list of people passed.

Why not?

BASE jumping is the sport of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. "BASE" is an acronym that stands for the four categories of objects from which one can jump; building, antenna, span, and earth.

why don`t you take your spinetto and jump this bridge before or after the BD? i would gladly let you.....

I smell a rat, and sooner or later every rats gotta smoke the pipe!.....SO trannybanger, did you and sonic have sum sweet make up sex? Enquiring minds want to know, it would be more interesting than this canopy review anyways.

no way hes way to fat and hairy to have sex with

Of course, you are quite correct. Bridge Day is NOT a BASE jump--it is an event. The BASE jump happens when you exit the ramp/diving board/crane etc. with a parachute.

Be careful saying shit like "BD is not a BASE jump," even in jest. The last thing we need is people who are already laccidasical about jumping off of "easy" objects such as the potato and the new infecting others who may have very little (if any) BASE experience at all with the same shite attitude.

For those that have not done a BASE jump: Jumping off of a fixed object is considered a BASE jump. It is NOT safe, even at Bridge Day or the Potato bridge. People die there. This can easily include you and I (if I ever decide to jump at BD again).

cheers,
pope