Gear Guide

Everything you need to know about gear: Design insights, reviews and getting the best from your kit.

Gin Genie X-Lite

Gin Genie X-Lite review: lightweight pod harness

"A light harness that is still suitable for everyday use" – Marcus King tested Gin's Genie X-Lite pod harness
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Gin Boomerang 12: That whale-inspired leading edge explained

When Nature Meets Engineering is a real insight into designing high performance paragliders and the people that do it.
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Ozone Switch

Ozone Switch review: lightweight modular harness

Ozone’s modular harness for speed flying, speedriding, and hike-and-fly comes in two modes – slick and complete. Lawrie Noctor tries it out
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Skywalk Cruise

Skywalk Cruise review: Paragliding harness

Bastienne Wentzel tested Skywalk's Cruise, a “compact comfort harness” aimed at beginners and sports pilots preferring a seat harness instead of a pod
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Air3 tablet

Air3 7.3+ Review: flight computer

Want it all and want it all in one place? Marcus King flies Air3's updated Android flight computer for paragliding and hang gliding
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Litle Cloud Gracchio 2

First look: Little Cloud Gracchio Mk 2

We test flew the latest version of Little Cloud's intermediate wing in the southern French Alps
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Ozone BV1 2500

Ozone BV1 review: lightweight pod harness

Designed explicitly for vol-biv adventures the new Ozone BV1pod harness is one serious piece of kit. Marcus King test-flew it
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Flare Moustache

Flare Moustache review (parakite)

Flare's Moustache is a parakite: a cross between a paraglider and a kite. It's for paraglider pilots, kitesurfers, speed flyers and snowkiters
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Triple Seven Knight 2 2500

Triple Seven Knight 2 review (EN B)

Triple Seven's Knight is “designed to inspire confidence” in pilots stepping up from their first wing and starting to fly XC. Marcus King tested it
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Woody Valley Crest Review: Reversible Harness

Marcus King tests Woody Valley's Crest, a simple and lightweight but fully-featured reversible paragliding harness 
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