Re: [aaroncosbey] Canopy Comparison
aaroncosbey wrote:
Consolidated rigging does exist. Email nancy at support@crmojo.com
Asylum are a dealer for CL. Asylum make 2 canopies based on the same design: the Se7en and a light weight Se7en (feather).
Hope this helps.
Im sure this is what you meant, but just to clarify, the seven and feather are the same airfoil in different weights, but they are completely different from the ace/bj airfoil.
To address some of the other OP questions, I do agree articulation is just a way to make a harness more squeaky. I have jumped articulated and non-articulated harnesses, and currently only have non articulated. I have done about every type of jump there is, and have never wished i had articulation.
For the seven/feather, the flare and toggle pressure are more similar to a skydiving canopy. On super low stuff, it does take a little longer to pressurize than an unvented canopy. I have a vented seven, and its my favorite canopy I own far and away. Ive taken it terminal wingsuiting and is snivels and is super soft, and i static line it from 140 and freefall it from 200 without any issues, and it has about 500 jumps on it.
The OSP is an awesome canopy if you just do a ton of ultra low freefall. If your only object is a 120 ft static line with a landing directly below, get an OSP, if you jump mostly 200-400 ft slider down, get a blackjack. We did an 11 way in moab where you had to outglide a ledge to make the full flight. 7 blackjacks all made it, 4 OSPs all had to land on top. I find the opening height to be close enough that if I was concerned about the difference, I would be jumping stuff that would be too low for my taste, and ive jumped 100ft on my ZP BJ.
Fliks are loved by people that have jumped them since they were new, but they probably pressurize about as bad as any full base canopy out there. Ones with vents are much better. Trolls I dont have much experience with, but seem to be just fine. My only weirdess with them is that the two different ones I jumped I seemed to need to pull down further to completely clear the brakes, but that might have just been a coincidence.
I jump asylum stuff, and I love it, but have jumped most of the major stuff out there. I agree that morpheus stuff seems about twice as heavy as it needs to be for no apparent reason. That being said, pretty much every mainstream manufacturer makes quality stuff and it comes down to personal preference.
My personal gear stable is super full right now (unfortunately due to the death of a close friend which was not base related), so my opinions are based on my current setups of Seven 260 (vented), feather 240, BJ ZP 260, Troll MDV 265, ACE 260, Trango 245, and Feather 220. If I had to have one canopy that I would order today to do everything, id probably try to get ZP feather 260 and put some vents in it.
