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CURE 2-manual-EN-1-1 October 2019
3. PREPARATION
Connecting the speedbar
Your paraglider comes with accelerator risers and can be flown with or without a speedbar attached. The speedbar
should be connected and adjusted following the instructions in your harness manual to ensure correct routing of the
lines. Connect the Brummel hooks on the speedbar to those on the risers’ speed system, ensuring the lines run freely
and are not caught around anything (reserve handle, risers or lines).
To adjust the speedbar length, sit in your harness and ask an assistant to hold the risers up in their in-flight position.
The speedbar length should be adjusted, by moving the knots, so that the bar sits just beneath your harness seat. You
should be able to hook your heels into the bar, and to attain full bar extension (the two pulleys touching) when you
push your legs out. Once you have set the bar up in this way on the ground, a test flight in calm air can be useful to
fine-tune the length, ensuring it is even on both sides.
On launch
1. Select a suitable take-off area determined by wind and terrain, clear of any obstacles that may catch in the
lines or damage the canopy.
2. Take your paraglider to the top of the take-off area, and allow the canopy to unroll itself down the hill if
on a slope. This should leave the paraglider with the bottom surface facing upwards, the openings at the
downwind/uphill end of the take-off area, and the harness at the trailing edge at the upwind side.
3. Unroll the canopy to each side so that the leading edge openings form a semicircular shape, with the trailing
edge drawn together to form an arc. The harness should be drawn away from the canopy until the suspension
lines are just tight.
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