The Optimum Reserve is now offered in sizes ranging from 99 to 253 square feet. It is made from a new low permeability, low bulk fabric available exclusively from Performance Designs. 

Performance Designs combined this fabric with special aerodynamics and extensive reinforcing to create great strength, better performance, and a far smaller pack volume for a given size. The Optimums are rated for maximum exit weights ranging from 220 pound to as much as 300 pounds!

The Optimum has successfully been drop-tested at weights and speeds considerably higher than those required for FAA certification according to TSO C23d, the highest standard to date. The Optimum flies and lands far more like a main parachute too. All this and also provides a more powerful flare, by a wide margin, of any reserve we have ever tried.

THE SMART’S LITTLE BROTHER JUST GOT BIGGER

Even with a more dense fabric, we maintain 30% lower pack volume than our conventional reserve. We have tested the NANO above and beyond the specifications required by the FAA’s TSO C23d. The NANO offers the same unparalleled opening, flight and landing characteristics as the ICARUS Reserve, now with a much lower pack volume. With high technology, low pack volume, and dependable durability, the NANO is the clear choice. We offer the NANO in sizes ranging from 99 to 253 square feet.

Icarus World Nano Reserve Canopy manual is available here

MarS a.s. is proud to offer a complete range of reserve canopies.

Our many years of experience in the production of parachutes and parachute equipment provide you a first-class quality guarantee.

Our goal was clear. To provide our customers with the reserve canopy that had the ideal balance between fast opening, good flight performance and soft landing. We can happily say that we succeeded, thanks to proven seven-cell and nine-cell design, first-class materials and high-quality workmanship.

• Proven quality from the Czech Republic since 1992
• A rescue you can rely on in every situation
• Fast opening
• Stability
• Soft landings
• Seven-cell design
• Nine-cell design
• Certified TSO C23d and ETSO-C 23f
• Air permeability of canopy fabric is 0-0,5 CFM

Designed and built under the strictest quality assurance management of Part 21 of the European aviation authority, it of course has the JTSO C 23d as well as the US FAA TSO C 23d certification.

Already in 1997 Paratec has realized, together with its innovative fabric suppliers, the today’s so popular expression of a « low bulk » reserve. Other manufacturers are still trying to follow this path. Today the Speed ​​2000 reserve is not only the most proven but still the smallest packing low bulk reserve on the market!

Over the years the more and more optimized and exclusively for Paratec manufactured fabric is the base and the guarantor for the technical superiority of this internationally esteemed reserve.

The low bulk design makes the installation of a larger canopy into the already existing container volume possible. In this way, clear gains in security can be implemented: For most of the skydivers the first reserve activation is also followed by the first flight and landing with a 7 cell canopy! Therefore, the lower packing volume and larger area offers a useful lower and better predictable sinking rate, longer residence time in the air and thus more predictable approaches and landings with the excellent, but in terms of flight and flare still unfamiliar, reserve canopy.

Canopy Model	Aera (Sq. Ft.)	Max (Kg/Lbs)
Speed 120	120	72/160
Speed 135	135	80/177
Speed 150	150	88/195
Speed 170	170	96/213
Speed 190	190	110/244
Speed 220	220	105/233
Speed 250	250	115/255