[Trooper117]

Don't forget that these are crappy WWII parachutes, not super-duper high tech specially shaped parachtues

Not sure how you are basing those comments, probably not from experience, but I've jumped the British WWII parachute type many times before our new Low Level Parachute entered service, I can tell you it wasn't crappy, and I had at least 200 descents using it.. It was rotatable only by pulling down on the lift webs, had no capewells and was permantly attached to the harness, which had the standard Second World War release mechanism, which incidently was the same design as the RAF's..
I have jumped it many times under 600ft with not a single mishap.. You can't make a statement about 'crappy WWII chutes' when you haven't any experience using it..
Even the new LLP I have described doing tests on is still very much the same as a basic WWII canopy and operates the same way. it has more modern harness and container gadjets for the paratrooper to make his life a little easier.. but the way it deploys and operates is still the same as the early WWII design.