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WARNING
Designed and manufactured with safety in mind, the VALLUNA, with it’s
performances, gives access to a huge range of flying. As with all aircraft, this
equipment demands of its pilot, maturity, ability to analyse flying conditions,
competence, good maintenance and care of the equipment.
Therefore, this manual cannot replace an appropriate education of paragliding
and the indispensable familiarisation to this model that you can ask from your
seller.
We recommend to carry a rescue parachute.
DESIGN
With the Valluna we tried to give a new reality to our dream of a light
and performing paraglider that you can forget when flying, able to challenge on
flying spots or during cross country without giving up travelling, trekking and
adventure.
The result is a keen glider, easy to make use of, offering a wide speed range
with brakes, a great diversity of turn speed, a progressive response on a wide
controls range with the benefit of stability that lightness confers.
Even if its performances and reactivity mean this paraglider for fully formed
and skilled pilots, the Standard class CEN homologation asserts of a good
accessibility.
MAINTENANCE
Check or have checked by your retailer, using an anemometer, the
speed of your wing flying hands high. A result of 1,9 mph less than the lower
end of the announced performance bracket requires a thorough inspection.
If necessary, wash your wing with cold water and soap.
Do not stock your wing in humid or dirty conditions. In case of long storage, do
not fold the wind too tight.
To keep as long as possible the ease of inflation qualities, avoid folding mylar
reinforcements at the ribs nose.
Every paraglider is prone to aging and must therefore be inspected regularly
(about every 100 hours of flying time and at least once a year). Before
reselling, a control will discharge your responsibility towards your buyer. We
strongly recommend getting this control from our workshop or from an
approved retailer.
We urge you to be extremely alert to all defects, damage or rupture discovered
to the suspension lines or the sail and to repair the damage as soon as
possible.
In every pre-flight check pay attention to the tightening of the maillons rapids/
carabiners, especially which link the lines to the risers and the risers to the
harness.
If you return the wing to our work shop, please send the complete wing (risers
and original bag, without harness) accompanied by the present manual. So we
can fill in the interventions carried out by us.
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