Swoop crash in water katana 107

IST 2008 Molinella Italy.
Stopped the rotation a little bit late and slow and came low on the water, very close to the ground.
No injury at all.
Canopy was a katana 107 loaded at 1,44

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[airdiver1116]

nice.. whats your wingloading??

[11airon11]

with that canopy my wingload was 1.44

[BMFin]

You come too low because you didnt take into account the downwind.

It changes your planeout picture severely and you easilly end up in the corner when downwinding..

[11airon11]

that's right....

the biggest problem was strong downwind...but the worst thing i did was to not give up and try to recover with only rear risers instead of passing to toggles..

i learned much more from that landing, than from many good ones.

[BMFin]

I learned the same lesson some time ago also. The thing with the downwind is that you easilly wont notice your in the corner before its too late. And switching to toggles at that point wont make much difference. With normal winds you normally see it coming early if you are going too low. Then you can easilly switch to toggles. The problem is less dangerous if you KNOW in before hand that most likely your planeout picture should look a bit high now that your going downwind.

[11airon11]

that's right..

now i know on my own skin...

that was the third jump of the day, and in the first two i was very conservative on the gate and i missed it for a couples of centimeters...in that jump i went down a little more aggressive to catch the gate, and my perception was to be ok, but only in the last meters i noticed i was moving forward really fast because of the wind and i was still in the corner...

the wind was at about 7/7,5 m/s

[drumsjazzman]

did you get more points for the double flip?? :O)

[jwm239]

...hm...I'm not ready for that landing technique yet

[mattleyfly1]

@11airon11 olà là si swooppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :-)



[BushyX]

Looks like he banged his knees just before the water, ouch...

[woodydrn2]

@11airon11 What do you mean by "in the corner" ?

[MrJimslaton]

I can help you...

[BMFin]

@pulsejet1 Like I already said, the picture changes. Visuals look different due to different ground speed. This doesnt change how the canopy flies in the air. It just changes the visuals.

[pulsejet1]

@BMFin Are you saying the 'picture' changes? Or that the parachute actually takes longer to plane out when going down wind?

[mrjakkertax]

ownd



[chanctonbury63]

Too effing high (only) judging the video.