Team 5′s Orange Cross is a small, lightweight fast-opening reserve parachute

Sky’s Spare Light reserve is developed from the popular Spare rescue system, but has been made lighter in weight (only 1.4 kg for the M size; 1.9 for the XL). Its sink rate still betters the 5.5 m/s standard set for reserve parachutes.

Swiss company High Adventure have released the Beamer 2, a new version of their 1995 classic rogallo steerable reserve parachute.

Aeros’ new rescue parachute, the SX, has been tested to 115 kg with a descent rate of 5.5 m/s.

Team 5 describe their Orange ST as the lightest steerable reserve system on the market. At only 2.2 kg it can bring loads of up to 130 kg safely back down to Earth with a max sink rate of 4.2 m/s (for loads over 110 kg), and 3m/s for less than 90 kg. www.team5.at

Independence have released new annular Evo parachutes

The Globe rescue chute is a successor of the long-produced SH-1 and SH-bi reserves

In line with the market appetite for lightweight equipment, APCO now announce two new additions to their emergency parachute range

‘I pulled my reserve handle and … nothing.’ One of the most powerful paragliding tales of survival ever published. A lesson in luck, by Bob Drury