Gin Gliders Safety Notice
Gin are advising pilots not to fly the Boomerang 7 or Boomerang GTO in the rain.
Gin Gliders have sent us the following announcement:
“We strongly advise you not to fly in the rain on the Boomerang GTO and Boomerang 7 paragliders. These high performance gliders are very susceptible to deep stall in the rain.
“The development path of modern high performance paragliders (high aspect ratio, 3 lines, profile type and high camber profiles) bears no allowance for these kind of gliders to fly when wet. If you see a shower coming during a flight, even a light one, we strongly advise you to go to land immediately.
“If you do fly in the rain, and if you enter a stall, which generally happens when you enter lift, do as follows. Do not perform any actions with your brakes, do not steer the wing, push on the “A” risers. If this is not sufficient to recover the flight, push the speed bar and maintain the action”.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 1:10 am
I have flown in the rain before and strongly recommend against it, trying to inflate a collapsed wet comp glider in turbulent sink is not fun. If you see rain do not even think about flying near it, what if it is coming out of a CB storm cloud?