Articles
Short guided reads built from what the site already cites — manufacturer documents, USPA material, the Academy and the methodology. Every statement links to its source, with the date the source was checked.
Articles describe what manufacturers, USPA and other cited sources publish. They are not advice and set no altitudes; what and how you fly is decided with your canopy coach and your drop zone.
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Canopies & wing loading
Reading a manufacturer wing-loading chart →
What the numbers on a Performance Designs or JYRO chart mean, in each manufacturer's own words — and why one manufacturer's categories cannot be translated into another's.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 13 cited sources
Canopies & wing loadingWhat changes when you downsize — as manufacturers and USPA describe it →
What Performance Designs, JYRO and USPA material say changes with a smaller canopy or a new planform, and the questions they put before a size change.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 10 cited sources
Landing patternLanding-pattern terminology, leg by leg →
Downwind, base and final, the hand of a pattern, crab and drift, the holding area, the high-performance area and the alternate — what each term means and where it comes from.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 7 cited sources
Weather & windWeather terms for the landing pattern →
Airspeed and ground speed, head, tail and cross components, the wind gradient, gusts and rotor, the sea breeze, density altitude and the windsock — explained as the Academy and the cited articles describe them.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 10 cited sources
Data & methodologyWhat FlySight measures — and what it cannot see →
The fields a FlySight recording contains, what is calculated from them, where the numbers lose precision, and the things no GNSS logger can record.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 9 cited sources
Data & methodologyHow SkyLara labels where a number comes from →
Measured, derived, inferred, user-entered, manufacturer-published or contextual: the provenance labels on SkyLara, the confidence states beside them, and how cited sources are tracked.
Reviewed Oct 7, 2026 · 8 cited sources
Safety notice: This tool is for data review only. It does not replace canopy coaching, DZ rules, traffic awareness, S&TA guidance, or manufacturer guidance. Everything here is information for learning — not advice or a recommendation about any canopy, wing loading, turn or decision. Your decisions are your own. See the Terms of Service.