so the glider held itself together really well it's pretty solid and taut
and it feels quite rigid in the way that it doesn't yaw, it doesn't bend and flex
it sits there nice and planted and fairly steady on the roll axis I found if you
are flying along fast and you want to just quickly whip the wing over it's
not that kind of wing it likes to resist a little bit and it likes to keep it's
heading whatever it's doing it likes to keep its heading but then if you give it
a roll and a reasonable amount of brake you can get it to come around pretty
tight. it's quite adequate enough for flying in
grotty conditions. The advantage is that it's fairly balanced because it's not
particularly agile and whippy it's pretty balanced and calm and you don't
have to manage the glider much particularly in pitch, it's pretty calm that
way and I felt there's some kind of genes in the glider that come from the
Icepeak 6 or even more the Peak 4. I felt if I was to make a comparison of
the glider that would be the closest wing that I've come to: the Peak 4. it
has that competition glider feeling about it sort of a two liner feeling
even though it's a three liner it feels powerful it feels like a competition
glider to a certain extent: a lower aspect version. what I liked is I didn't
find I had to manage the energy at the tips, where you go on a higher aspect
wing you get more of that kind of surge and energy that you've got to manage and
this didn't have any of that, it was just nice and trimmed. it's light but it's
semi light, it's still got pretty long reinforcing rods inside the wing
with that kink in the middle and and quite a bit of reinforcing around
the trailing edge. well that long rod runs pretty
close to the trailing edge, it's a very long rod and then up on the leading edge
making the whole wing I think around about 4.2 kilos for this one
which isn't ultralight you know it's not like an X-ALPS racing wing it's got a
little bit more meat which means that it probably lasts a bit longer it's got
more stability it doesn't deform as easily and it still packs up fine. I find
I'm using a strap, I roll my harness up and squish the air out of it so it gets
it nice and tight and then I roll the wing around that so it's a reasonable
curve on the rods and that's fine. I'm getting it into my my Supair Trek 350 bag
which is a pretty small racing hike and fly bag. It goes in there without any
problem so packing not a problem. for ground handling it's definitely a high C
in terms of pilot demands there you need to know your ground handling you've got
to have good skills there because similarly to the peak 4 it seems to
come up and want to shoot a bit at the top, it wants to shoot forward you have to
hold it back and then when you do that it's fairly easy to stall the wing at a
fairly high angle on the ground. so the combination means that there's a
limited window where it's easy to control and then it falls back and it
will tend to rotate so it's a little bit challenging for a pilot that's matched
with a high C class no problem if you are used to flying high aspect wings you
really won't have a problem but if you're stepping up into this class let's
say it's your first EN C wing that you're buying
yeah um thermic launches and on steep launches you're gonna maybe be a bit
challenged and you need to spend some time doing ground handling just
to get that dialed in.
once in the air felt very solid it's not a bulldozer I
certainly had a few tips go when the conditions were lively and the wing went
ahead and sometimes the wing does tend to roll you out of a turn if you get a
strong strike of lift you tend to get tipped a little bit out and then your
outer tip will go in. so a little bit of glider management is
needed. I didn't feel like it was super demanding I felt it was cool for the C
class it's a nice high performing C it's for those that are wanting wanting to
try your hand at competitions and you are wanting to at least keep up with the
other guys and I think this will give the other guys a good run for their
money. on full bar was getting about 54 km/h from about a
38 trim speed so it's a good acceleration it felt solid on bar the
rears the the bridge the B-C bridge is very nice it's very easy and simple
there's no balls or things to grab you just slot your hand in between the B and
the C and you pull down that gave me a very strong sturdy feeling with lots of
pressure so you can use that to give you some sort of secure feeling when it's
getting rough and when you're accelerated and you're wanting to rein
the glider back a little bit spot on everything else I think is really
good with the glider. I found very efficient flat turns when
you keep a speed up just use a bit of brake and get a little bit of rolling I
felt that was very efficient and I think on glide and on bar you're probably
looking at the top of the class here and now with the lightweight version this is
quite a impressive wing. I mean if you're a volbiv pilot and you like
exploring big mountains and you want to have the speed and the stability to get
out of trouble but you also want to have some kind of ease of use and a glider
that's not too much management, the Q-LIGHT is definitely worth checking out.
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