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Jeb Corliss crashes wingsuit at Table Mountain 20-Jan-2012 At 10:22:46 AM J.C.

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Was that cliff mt Brento?

You've got the canopy situation pretty spot on, skydiving rigs have a main and a reserve... The reserve is a docile square 7cell canopy that is packed differently as to eliminate potential hazards, open faster and more reliably on heading etc. we can then use whatever we want for a main, which is often (once the pilot is sufficiently experienced) a high performance elliptical 9 cell designed for very fast speeds and intense turns. This canopies are also a lot less reliable at opening nicely and it is not uncommon to have to chop one to get out of a violent spinning malfunction.. Base canopies started out as just skydiving reserves and have evolved in their own rIght from there. Base rigs only use one canopy and are pared down to absolute bare minimum, time and experience has shown that simple = less shit to go wrong. Due to the nature of the beast we are also opening at 100ft give or take (sometimes higher often lower) as opposed to 3000ft while skydiving so there would rarely be time to operate a reserve if we did have one.