- (Carlo) There are two types of pilot.
Those who haven't yet discovered fast packing bags
and those who have.
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- (Nancy) We are free flight experts and equipment
specialists helping you get the best flying experience.
- What's a fast packing bag, also known
as a fast pack or a quick stuff sack or various things.
We call them fast packing bags.
They come in various shapes and sizes.
Now this is the Advanced FASTPACK SOLO,
which I'm gonna talk a little bit about now.
Nancy and I are real fans of fast packing bags,
especially since we're out testing lots of gliders.
Pretty much every day we go out, we're taking a glider out
trying to fly it and get as much out of the day as possible.
That's what they're about.
It's about getting the most out
of the day and not spending your time packing.
If you have a day
and the glider's a bit damp during the winter or the
or the autumn or early spring, like now
then at the end of the day,
your glider's often, it's pretty damp.
The lines are damp.
The wing can be soggy or even wet
and you don't really wanna pack it away like that.
And the great thing about fast pack bag then
is you can just mushroom the glider up,
stick it in the fast pack bag and put it away.
You can even fit your harness in there as well
depending on how big your harness is
and how small the fast pack bag is.
And then you can get everything in there.
Just get it in your boot and then get it back home,
open it out and, air everything really easily.
So this is the Advanced FASTPACK.
This is my favourite solo fast pack.
As in solo, rather than tandem, they also do a BI version,
a tandem version, which is just a
that's kind of pretty much a bigger version of the same bag.
And I'm just gonna talk through the features on this
and why I think it's such a nice fast pack.
Actually, this design's a little different
than most fast pack.
The zip on the outside.
And then the usual kind of draw string on the middle
and this has got a Ziploc cord on it.
You can open it out.
Nice and easy.
There's a riser pocket.
So your risers go in there.
So what you do is just gather those up at
the end of the day and pop them.
And something quite distinctive about this fast pack bag,
I'll just show you on the back,
For one most obviously is it's shape.
It's not the usual kind
of circle that a lot of fast packs are
which they're just the kind of big mushroom.
And that's why some people call them a mushroom bag.
On this, Advance and shaped the bag a bit more
like a rucksack, but they've kind of optimised it
between a rucksack and a fast pack.
On the back here they've got
rucksack shoulder straps, with
the usual adjustments on there you'd expect on a rucksack,
and not really so much on a fast pack.
The chest strap, which you can actually, you can see,
you can actually slide that up and down.
You can see the wing through there, there's
mesh material to let the glider breathe a bit.
And at the same time they've kept this material
all the way around to make it sort of pretty robust.
I mean, it's very light.
They quote the weight to 900 grams.
When we weighed them, we make it more like an 850 grams.
So it's even lighter than they say.
Maybe they left something in there, a sandwich or something
and they didn't realise.
One slight criticism, if somebody at
Advance can explain this to me.
Gonna zip here, that makes sense.
But what I don't understand is why they
put a zip at this end?
So it zips that way.
And I sometimes find myself pulling the wrong zip
and then I can't work out why I can't get the glider out.
That's probably just me, but don't see the need
for the second zip.
I've never gotten around to ask them that one.
So if anyone's got an explanation for the second zip,
the mystery second zip, then please let me know.
Stick a comment down below.
You've got some, they've added some bungee cords there
which you can use for stuffing your jacket or something
like that in there.
Got another little pocket here.
To just put your keys and your wallet and bits like that.
Where your back is there's a kind of,
it's actually padded it's mesh
but it's a padded material just to make it even
more comfy to carry.
That's the reason, by the way, the main reason
this is my favourite fast pack, both Nancy and I
these are our favourites.
Okay. So to get your glider into the fast pack
get the fast pack laid on the ground like so.
Make sure the cord is opened all the way out.
Lay it on the ground like so.
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If you want, you can actually spend a little bit of time
really tidying the glider up and sort of semi pack it away.
But the idea of a fast pack
is you're generally trying to pack... fast.
This is the quick way, just put it on in a mushroom...
and I'll show you a little trick as well
that I've seen people struggling sometimes to
get their gliders in the fast pack.
If you pull on the leading edge while you've got the wind
(it's actually a little bit breezy at the moment)
then what'll happen is your glider keeps inflating.
And it's really difficult.
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And then this is obviously just with the wing.
You can put the harness in as well.
Just to show that you can get the harness in
there as well if you want.
I'm gonna put my harness in on top,
and this is a relatively bigger harness.
It's a full competition, XC harness.
It's an Advance IMPRESS 4, with two reserves,
CHILI5 [wing] size ML.
And yes, you'll see how it all goes in.
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Well, I hope you've enjoyed this mini review of
the Advance FASTPACK SOLO.
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