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CHARLY TARGETcross

DIAMONDcross, the patented steerable cross canopy, has been newly revised and is now available again after the supply bottleneck with the waterproof light canopy. It is now supplied with an improved inner container, which not only offers a high level of security against entanglement in the paraglider, as before, but also releases the canopy even more reliably in low inflow conditions.

The CHARLY DIAMONDcross with the new container is now called CHARLY TARGETcross.

Finsterwalder UNILOCK paragliding carabiner

Ultralight, universal paragliding carabiner
With a weight of only 45 g and a breaking load of more than 25 kN, the UNILOCK is currently the lightest and at the same time most loadable paragliding carabiners on the market.
... more info!

Safety note for all CHARLY rescue parachutes

Check of the reserve handle-container-connection
Due to a problem that has recently come into focus that the reserve handle, especially of harnesses with integrated rescue compartment, can get caught in the lines after deployment and block the opening of the rescue system, we have limited the maximum length of the connection between the reserve handle and the inner container of the rescue system to 37 cm for CHARLY rescue parachutes. The picture shows how to measure the length.

The length of the connection between reserve handle and inner container should be checked by the pilots before the next flight.

Download the full safety note as PDF here.

KORTEL Kanibal Race 2 Safety note

KORTEL has published an important safety notice for its harness Kanibal Race 2. In conjunction with certain rescue inner containers, the deployment distance of the rescue parachute may be too long.

Important note on the use of the Paralock

On the occasion of an accident, in which the pilot removed the safety caps shortly before landing and thereby pressed the release button and opened the rotatable lever, we would like to point out the following:
The safety caps must not be removed under any circumstances before landing, except after the rescue parachute has been released and has deployed.

Vitesse test in THERMIK magazin

The THERMIK magazin published a detailed test report on the Vitesse paragliding helmet in its issue 6_21.
With the kind permission of the THERMIK editorial team, we can make this available here as a PDF download.

Update about the PARALOCK

Lightweight, safe, just as convenient to use as a conventional paragliding carabiner – and yet more durable and separable under load. This is the current status of the Paralock pre-series.

In terms of safety, stregth and function, the current Paralock pre-series is faultless. We have ensured this through extensive testing. The first flights with prototypes by Tom Grabner and other test pilots were still made without a security cap.

More information...

Test: Charly POLARHEAT LIGHT

Lucian Haas hat auf seinem Blog Lu-Glidz unsere neuen, speziell für Gleitschirmflieger entwickelten, akku-beheizbaren Handschuhe Charly POLARHEAT LIGHT ausführlich unter die Lupe genommen.

Heated Gloves

Charly's innovative Li-Ion battery heating system
Unlike less flexible foil-based heating systems, which can only be installed on the back of hand and fingers, the soft textile heating wires of Charly's heated gloves run along the sides of the fingers and and over the fingertips. ...more info!