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shiny the range except to just being up
on K burn for about two hours to set a
lovely flight nice session by myself
enjoying hours pretty punchy conditions
pretty rough quite windy but gave the
harness a good workout so I got a good
feeling of what it's like what it does
well it's definitely a big improvement
in finishers and quality over the
excerpts of one some of the design
features that I really like I like this
air bag inflatable backplate so it takes
a little bit of time to set it up that's
a minute or so it gives you a feeling of
you can feel that you've got some air
cushioning behind you it's quite nice
very light very delicate that you can
feel it there definitely notice when I
had inflated the bag I'll really like
these little side pockets where you can
put your things that's my money and
stuff that I'd slipped in the side
camera batteries and it stayed in during
the whole flight so that's great it's
one on each side the cockpit area it's
big enough for three instruments the
angle is a little bit too shallow it
would be nice to bring it up more search
your instruments are at right angles to
your face
I really like this front mount reserved
that's the right position for a reserve
I think you can see it you check it more
it's very accessible and the closure
system on this reserve nicely designed
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it's very good I've got a beamer 3 light
best reserve in the world inside here
and it gets it in without a problem it's
tight but comfortable foot for a beam of
three lights so if you've got one of the
lightweight reserves no problem at all
this pod skirt is very sleek very
aerodynamic I would like a little
magnets halfway along just to tidy it up
but it doesn't really flap the foot
plates very nice it's got this carbon
fiber lightweight rounded smooth aged
good job skywalk this little guy I found
it's easier to get in with this but this
harness I don't feel that I need it I
found it as easy to just the the pod
opens like this if you put your legs
down and you can get your foot in really
easily
that's a little detail and I'm a little
bit that's okay they'll pull open it
would be nice to have a zip here that's
the modern way to do it and I think I
might look at a small with my body size
the finishers these are really really
nice okay the the straps on the side you
can adjust these in the air they're easy
to adjust they very very tidy and a huge
improvement on the excerpts one which
had a hole warren of string here that
ended up getting chewed by the
carabiners this is very nice and tidy
and neat and the closure system with the
leg buckles and the pod closure it's all
really nicely designed to be honest I in
this kind of harness as I step through
so I don't even just connect everything
I just step through and with this one
it's easy something to do with the air
bag inflated back it does hold as less
clutter then previously and I find it's
easy to step through and pull the
harness up like a jacket the harness
felt familiar from the excerpts one it
gave me that hammock feeling it's very
much a reclined harness you feel like a
hammock support throughout it's the same
sort of feeling as the excerpts one it's
a bit wobbly it yours a bit it doesn't
seem to pitch that much but it does roll
and your and I found that what I would
do in a high-performance glider is
actually have my thumbs just against the
risers to stop that yoing motion it also
helps with the roll the roll you can do
a lot with your hips and you can
actively control that but the you I
found quite difficult to do unless you
touching the risers just to line
yourself up definitely in lumpy bumpy
air you do feel like you move around a
bit more than you would in a heavier
harness that's got more geometry and
balance to it this little
tube system will easier a little bit of
time you've got it
deflated when you land and I don't want
to pop it so now I'm pushing the air out
let's see how long it takes don't want
to damage it sir
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you're pushing it out
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Kriegers running past
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also air in the tailfin that you got to
get up
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okay I've now got my ear out of the
harness so now I can pack it away so
that does take a bit of time okay here
I'm ready to go goes down into a very
small flat package you could just go on
top of your glider squish everything
down this tail seemed to be very steady
behind me I didn't feel it fluttering
around and it wasn't irritating when I
went back with my head it's perfectly
designed there sits behind you in your
wake and fills up the turbulent area big
improvement on the exurbs one very
similar feel in the air easier to adjust
better to get in and out I found that
you could actually hang on the leg
straps without too much discomfort
unlike the previous one which made you
kind of stay lying back as long as
possible before dropping out and landing
bear in mind that it's paragliding
fabric it does have a limited lifespan
particularly one aspect I could see
there's a line running down diagonally
to support your legs at the end of the
pod and that's touching the edge of the
pod on both sides on that paragliding
fabric all the time and that does move a
bit so that's going to wear out slowly
but it does mean that you've now got a
better support for your legs so it's
going to be less of a workout on your
abs and the previous harness its gives
you a better comfortable position for
long-term flying they're putting some
reinforcing just where the speed bar
line is gonna be coming up and down a
little bit of webbing on both sides
there so all the little details have
been thought through on this one it's a
superb piece of lightweight paragliding
equipment if you are in to hike and fly
racing this is gonna be the harness to
have
if you into booby flying one thing I did
notice on this is that it's got more
space in the back you've got a very big
area here which is your inflated air bag
if you opt to take that out you've got a
huge amount of space here to put
sleeping bags tents whatever you want
and you've also got a bag underneath
your seat which will hold a small
ballast bag and you've got the two
pockets on the sides and the one stick
pocket aerodynamic sleek lightweight and
nicely finished
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you
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