Choosing Your First Main Canopy (2020 version)

This video is for licensed skydivers, or those about to be licensed, help choose your first main canopy. I talk about 6 canopies (and 3 runners up) that might be appropriate for new skydivers at the right size and wing loading. Also I talk about how some canopies to avoid. As always, this is information to supplement your local riggers, instructors, and canopy coaches. Performance Designs: Sabre 2: https://www.performancedesigns.com/pr... Spectre: https://www.performancedesigns.com/pr... (Sabre 3, too new to have an opinion either way, but here's the URL) https://www.performancedesigns.com/pr... Aerodyne: Pilot (9-cell) https://www.flyaerodyne.com/canopies/... Pilot 7 (7-cell) https://www.flyaerodyne.com/canopies/... NZ Aerosports: Safire 3: https://www.nzaerosports.com/product/... Icarus World: S-Fire: http://www.icaruscanopies.aero/index.... Videos referenced: "Girl's Can't Fly Parachutes"    • PIA Seminar "Girls Can't Fly parachutes"   A tongue-in-cheek title talking about some of the challenges that smaller people have when being pushed to jump wingload-appropriate but size-inappropriate canopies. Canopy Trim:    • Canopy Basics: Trim   Talking about canopy trim/glide/recovery arc. How We Talk About Canopies    • Talking About Canopy Flight Characteristics   Talking about the terms we use for talking about canopy flight characteristics.