Safety

Safety notices and information in paragliding and free flight

Advance Easiness safety notice

Safety notice: Advance Easiness / Easiness 2 harnesses

The connection between the V-lines and the reserve on Advance Easiness and Easiness 2 harnesses should be replaced at the next opportunity. 
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Advance Success 4: ‘A new level of harness safety’

Advance say it begins a new era of harness safety – with an additional spine protector above the main lumbar protection,
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Chalet-Card

Chalet Card: What to do in an emergency

Download your Chalet card here in two formats. One to save to your smartphone, or one to print out and put in your wallet or glider bag.
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Chest-buckle safety notice affects ‘Tens of thousands’

Tens of thousands of paragliding and paramotoring harnesses have been potentially ruled un-airworthy following a safety notice
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Italian search-and-rescue helicopter

Free-flying in the Dolomites at risk

Free flying in the Dolomites is under threat, because pilots are unwittingly impeding helicopter search-and-rescue operations in the area
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Advance Epsilon 7 line kit

Safety: Free line kit for Advance Epsilon 7 and Zeta models

Advance are advising the retrofitting of a free line kit to Epsilon 7 and Zeta paragliders, to bring them up to the latest standard
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Swing logo

Safety notice: Swing speed and mini wings

Swing asks every pilot to visually check their mini wing before the next flight and confirm the presence of the black or grey safety-seam
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Ozone Forza harness

Ozone Forza harness: Safety notice

There have been several reported cases of a reserve loop failure on the Forza harness
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Airborne hinged batten

Safety notice: Airborne hinged battens

Airborne have released a safety notice relating to their hinged battens, following incidences of battens becoming unloaded during flight.
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Mike Meier receives Jack Northrop award for safety article

The Jack Northrop Award for the Most Outstanding Technical Paper was presented at the 45th Annual West Coast Symposium of the SETP
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