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I'm sure somebody has given this a shot already. Got my hands on a Prodigy 1 and was thinking about combining it with my PTS jacket to compare which setup flies better (vs. a normal PTS).

Just curious to hear if anyone has tried it and their results.

Thanks!

it's crossed my mind a few times over the years as well, but honestly, i could never see an advantage to dropping the simple wings on my prodigy 2. that is truly the original PTS, i love flying that little suit... especially from the High Ultimate.

I'm going to give it a shot in the sky this weekend. Will let you know how it turns out.

Watching you run off HU in the prodigy was scary! You can get a good few steps in that thing!

haha, i know people do worse things.

it might look scary, but it really is no different than wearing a tracking suit.

fun fun fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J09qqBt3MYQ

Did one sky jump this weekend with the setup.

The Prodigy pants were Gen. 1. They were a little tight on me which I think could have pinched the vents (similar placement to PTS pants) and hampered full inflation.

I got basically the same type of performance (distance/time) as with my regular PTS setup. The only difference was that the pants pitched me a little head low (though not significantly lower than my normal PTS tracking position) and I had to compensate with wider arms. I think the wider arms effectively cancel out any forward-motion benefit of the bigger legwing.

There was also noticeably less stability with this setup. Again, the legwing wasn't fully inflating. Maybe this is an issue with fit, maybe the old Prodigy pants never really inflated very solidly. Not sure on that one. The instability I think could be resolved with a little practice, but I'm not sure I see the benefit of learning this setup when the PTS works just fine.

I think the combo may be a solution in search of a problem. I'm going to stick with the normal PTS from here on out.

If anyone else gives it a shot (or has already tried this before) I'd be curious to hear your results. In my mind it should have worked out way better!

nice, kinda what i figured.

FWIW also, haven't looked at a gen1 suit for a long long time... but from what i remember, the gen2 is significantly better in all regards to the wing itself including a larger leg wing and ram air jacket wings.

for what it is, the prodigy 2 is a pretty bad ass little suit.

That looked like a soft opening! Do tell