You need to work out what style of paragliding harness to look at and that can depend on what environment you fly in. At Overfly Tenerife , we offer you the best tandem paragliding experience in Spain. You can find us in the south of Tenerife , in Costa Adeje. Hence, we encourage you to enjoy our paragliding tandem flights. Every paragliding harness is similar and does similar things, but it is now possible to buy lots of lateral and back support or go more minimalist and lightweight.
Let us explain it by breaking it down into the main paragliding harness considerations :. You can choose the type of back protection for your paragliding harness , airbag or foam, sometimes a mix of both of them. Airbags provide good protection against impacts. Nevertheless, they will be useful only on the first impact — if you suffer a paragliding accident , you will have to change it. They are quite effective in landing fields and launch sites, but they are not really effective if the impact surface has pointy bits.
Modern airbag paragliding harnesses have a pre-inflation system that expands the volume of the harness before the flight, so you are protected even during the launch phase. Airbags help to reduce harness weight, especially when they are incorporated into a reversible design that produces a convertible paragliding harness-rucksack.
You must be very careful not to puncture the bag , which is quite easy if you use it on rocky launch sites. Foam options come with a physical cushioned insert in most cases between 16 and 20 centimetres thick. This is in order to protect your lower spine. Although they are not very heavy, they are quite voluminous — so they end up making a larger backpack. It is the favourite one of new paragliding pilots , due to they consider that it offers a greater level of protection.
So, if you are a newbie and you have just gotten your paragliding license , foam is probably the best option for you!
There is a wide range of paragliding harness sizes. Most of them come in the typical formats — small, medium, large and extra-large XL Every paragliding pilot is different in shape and every harness needs its time to set up to your shape and inflight comfort irrespective of how much money you have spent. For example, if you are medium weight but you have very long legs, then you need an XL size for your paragliding harness.
Everyone needs a reserve fitting for flying a paraglider. Most of the paragliding harness comes with an under the seat or a lower back option. They can only be reached with the right hand in general, but there are some brands that offer a left and right-handed option.
For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. There is a bewildering choice of paragliding harnesses available.
How do you compare the market when there are so many different styles, so many features, and so many brands? We set out the fundamental principles of choosing the right harness so you can develop a clear sense of what suits your flying skills and aspirations. In this series we will cover the classes of harness, features you need, matching harnesses to pilots and finding the correct fit, how to set up your harness and, finally, some maintenance issues.
These are ideal as a first buy and suit many recreational pilots. Wise gear choices should reduce your risk, not increase it. Get the equipment that matches where you currently are in your progression, so you can build your skills on a solid foundation. Confidence is the cornerstone of all flying development.
Pods offer a reclined position and a leg fairing. They are best suited for ambitious cross country pilots or regular fliers with at least a year of flying experience. Although more difficult on the ground and more unstable in extreme situations, pod harnesses are comfortable and offer more performance during long flights.
They keep you warmer and reduce drag while flying, but you carry a little extra weight and bulk on the way back depending on models, comparing like for like. I'm sharing the file and here is a short table of the comparison, the order is from the one with the best result on the impact tests to the one with the worst. Since the last updated results of the Evo XC3 the only remaining cocoon harnesses with less than 30g are the different versions of the Fantom Karpofly.
The harnesses like the Gin Genie Race 4 that has a blank space in the test results is because either it is not certified or the certification is still in progress. The weight is taken for the harness that suits me, 1. Arnes 2. Click here to register, or login. Great job! In the links on on the Gin website, test results for the Airlite 2 and the Verso 2 are identical although they were supposedly done on different days.
Also, weight for the medium Verso as well as the Airlite is listed on the test as 3. So it seems these are in both cases the test results for the Airlite 2, and not the Verso 2 -- unless I'm not understanding something? A question! Can someone explain what the G rating is based on?
In other words what process or test is used to determine a harness G rating? This kind of test : [Video: Sorry, only registered users can view embedded videos. According to the Papillon training standards, Papillon flight training takes place exclusively with modern foam protected harnesses. You are here: Harnesses. Allround-Harnesses View products Lightweight Harnesses Reversible Harnesses Paramotor Harnesses. Reclining Harnesses
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