it's got some amazing features packed into a surprisingly low weight for what it's got.
Very well put together, you can just see by looking at it, the build quality is really
exceptional. First of all, looking inside, you can see here it's got this very nice luxurious
... it's like the inside of a luxury car ... coating here which is very comfortable, and the back
is very firm and supportive, and there's quite a lot of tension across the harness. There's
a carbon stick, to tension up the harness so you can get it to the right tension you
want. Very supportive sides that keep you solidly in place.
Also it has a very generous flight deck, you can easily fit three instruments on there,
possibly even four. And it's got a zip-off panel here, so this comes off so you can take
that away, taking your instruments off so you don't leave them to get squashed.
That opens here to show you the storage, this back part of the fairing is just for the aerodynamics,
you can see in here this is like the inside of a paraglider, so it keeps a good pressure,
it's very impressive in flight how well it keeps its shape.
There's a hole that goes through there, for the Camelback, and then you've got this tube
here, you can see the H2O part there, that feeds through for your drinks tube.
There's another pocket on top here you can put your wallet or something like that, and
then another pocket here, so you've got lots of space to put things in. Here's the top
part of the back protector, that's removable if you wanted to have even more space.
Because it's a bigger harness, it has more volume, you need a bigger rucksack, the one
I found that fits really nicely is the Supair Trek 160.
This harness features two reserve pockets, one on either side, and the closing system
is very nicely done, very tidy, much tidier than some other similar harnesses. I really
like the way that's been done, very clean, nicely put together. Nice little touches like
this bit tucks into there, so your lines aren't going to snag on it. You've got these little
reserve handles here, bits of velcro to hold them in place, which is really nicely done,
very sleek and clean but nice and easy to get hold of.
And then here, you may be wondering what's in here, well this is for your drogue chute,
for reducing G force when you're doing spiral dives for a descent technique.
Let's move on to the other side... you've got everything repeated on this side and very
high quality, this harness looks like it's going to last.
Underneath here you can see this is the exit for the ballast container. When I first saw
this harness I struggled to work out how you were going to get the water into the ballast
bag, but there's a separate bag with you a tube you connect onto here and you squeeze
the water into there. You can see with this harness they've really
tried to make it very supportive and here they have some rods which I assume might be
carbon (I might be wrong) but they are quite stiff rods there on the sides to keep the
shape of the harness really steady. Here I have my flight deck, I've got an Oudie
as my main instrument, my phone for communication and I'm usually testing another instrument,
in this case the Skytraxx I'm trying out, yeah, so you can see the flight deck (now
this panel is off my Lightness2 harness which is my own harness) and you can see this fits
on here, really easily with plenty of space. Woody Valley have these very nice innovative
karabiners, I think they're alloy karabiners. For the speed system, we've got the pulleys,
and these are ratchet pulleys, they are 40mm ratchet pulleys and they make a phenomenal
difference to the pressure on the speed system, they are very expensive they are about a hundred
pounds a pair, so that explains part of the cost of the harness.
First, these straps here are for the weightshift control system. Next, you have your legstraps,
you've got to make sure as you pull them up you don't have them twisted round themselves.
That ends up on the left side. Next we have, there it is, the left flap of the speedbag
first, it goes onto here, then next is the flight deck, it clips into there, and then
that there is a loop that goes through the karabiner (let's make sure that isn't twisted
round which I think it is) and clip it onto there. And then last of all, because the flight
deck flops down, they've got a clip there that attaches it onto the waist strap.
Considering how many features this has got, double reserves and everything like that,
it's pretty impressive, the weight with the build quality, so it's pretty good, I mean
I can definitely tell when I have a lighter harness it's easier to run and jump around