UP Kantega XC, Owner'S Manual

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In order to ensure that your UP
Kantega XC maintains its very high
inherent performance and safety we highly
recommend that you employ UP, or a UP
affiliate, with any repairs or maintenance.
Our service staff is trained and skilled, and
knows the UP wings better than anyone.
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Your new UP paragliders is composed of
many high-class components with a long
lifespan. If you need to exchange any of
these components, please make sure you
use only original spares all around. Aside
from ensuring the continued validity of the
certification, this will also contribute
positively to your personal safety in flight.
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UP has been in the free flying business for
longer than most. Our extensive
experience is your guarantee that we can
perform the best possible airworthiness
checks on your equipment.
During the airworthiness check the canopy
is checked inside and out for damage,
along with the entire suspension system,
the risers and all connections.
Our checking facilities are equipped with
state-of-the-art measuring and suspension
devices, like carefully calibrated porosity
metres, computer based laser-assisted
line length verification systems and
breaking-load measuring equipment.
Aside from the qualitative measurements
the actual look and feel of the glider, as
seen by the experienced staff by UP, is a
crucial factor when determining the state
of a wing. If the person checking the wing
is in any doubt about the airworthiness of
a particular wing it is handed over to the
UP test pilots for a test flight, which will
determine the actual state of affairs even
better than the best qualitative
checking ever can.
All this serves to ensure that gliders
checked by UP International still live
up to the demands posed by ourselves
to our new products, and by the testing
authorities – a good incentive for our
customers to make sure that their UP
wings are always checked by UP, or
by a UP approved checking facility!