Equipment

About gliders, harnesses, reserves and all the rest...

Skyline Buzzard

Hi,

For anyone having experience with this wing, would it be good for a beginner to safely learn acro? Maybe even thermal occasionally :)

Seems pretty hardcore for the small size, but maybe size 21 with 85kg all up weight should be fine? Their website says Beginner (<3 years acro experience).

I currently have around 100 total hours in about 2 years of flying, mostly on EN Bs but on some EN Cs also. Also did dozens of fullstalls, SATs and wingovers...

Thanks!

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AAAAAAH! Too much Jargon! I just want to fly.

What equipment do I need? What's the approximate cost for everything?

I want to have a glider, all the harness and accessories, and an electric motor propelling me skyward, if possible.

What do I need?
What do I need to know before I begin?

Where in the US can I do ACROstuff?!?

Are there laws that prevent me from flying, what are they?

Could you please give an example of the best, and the worst equipment??

THANKS A MILLION!
My dream is to teach people how to fly.

Jack

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Acro 3 Weightshifting/ Skyline Vertigo 2R

Hello everybody,

Since you have a lot more experience than me, i wanted to ask you, how the Acro 3 harness handles in terms of weightshifting (amount and controlability).

The thing is, i saw that the acro 3 has quiet high hooking points, compared to most "normal" harnesses. My current Cult 3 has actually 5 cm lower hooking points, but i am really unsatisfied with its kinda "digital" weightsift handling (may also be a result of being a size to small for me. Size S, but 173cm/73kg) and the acro 3 in M (should be the fitting size) was recommended to me as a great alternative.

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Brake pressure ?

Hi,
I have a question for your opinion about brake pressure between Nikita 3, Thriller and Emilie.
My previus wing Gradient Freestyle 2 has quite low brake pressure.
Now i fly Nikita 3 and it is quite difficult to do some dinamic stall manouvers compare to Freestyle 2.

Thank you, Peterka

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Niviuk N-Gravity 3 ---> soon to be released

Niviuk will soon be releasing their new acro wing, the N-Gravity 3
It'll be a new kind of acro wing with better accessibility and improved tumbling behavior for antirythmic and esfera.
The feeling and the glide has no comparison with all other acrowing I tried... it's really great fun!
Their will be lots of news in the following facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/niviuk.ng3/

See ya!
Fred

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RR Base harness properties

Hi guys,

thinking of getting the Sup'air RR Base harness. Has anybody tested it yet? What do think about it? Is it stable like Ava or instable like Sol? How does it compare to the Acro3? What tricks were harder to do with the Base? How comfortable is it? ...
(just for your info I'm flying Emilie)

Thanks,
Thomas

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