Or use good flight judgement as the original poster has demonstrated, and choose the right size chute to account for your weight, and weight fluctuations with season. What other corners or margins are you going to push? Maybe max weight of non-lifting parts, redline... Good and bad flight decisions start on the ground before the flight. Just say'n


On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1:45:05 AM UTC-7, Chris Rowland wrote:
At 04:45 27 April 2018, Valentin Mayamsin wrote:
After talking to Paul it turns out the parachute is rated for 180 lbs. I
am
190 lbs. Still looking for parachute.

10 lbs overweight adds about 3% to your descent speed, that's better than
not having one.
Or loose 10 lbs.