Gin Gliders Bolero 6 XXS User manual

Bolero 6
User manual
v1.0 June 2017

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Gin Gliders reserves the right to alter or add to the contents of this manual at any
time. You should therefore regularly visit our website:
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where you will nd additional information relating to your paraglider and any changes
to the manual. The date and version number of this manual are given on the front
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© Gin Gliders Inc
The information in this manual is provided for guidance only and is subject to change without notice. This manual is not intended as a
comprehensive assembly, use, service, repair or maintenance manual. Please see your dealer for all assembly, service, repairs or
maintenance. Your dealer may also be able to refer you to classes, clinics or articles on paraglider use, service, repair or maintenance.
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Thank you...
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..for choosing Gin Gliders. This user manual contains important information for the use and
maintenance of your paraglider. Detailed knowledge of your glider and equipment will help
you to y safely and make the most of your ights.
Your GIN paraglider has been designed to meet all EN/LTF safety and regulatory
requirements. These requirements also include the need to familiarise yourself with this user
manual and the information and instructions regarding safety, equipment and service prior to
the initial commissioning. These operating instructions must be fully read and understood
before the rst ight.
Keep this manual for reference, and please pass it on to the new owner if you ever re-sell
your paraglider.
If you have any further questions about these operating instructions, please contact your
GIN dealer in the rst instance, or Gin Gliders directly.
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We wish you exciting ights and always a safe landing.
Your GIN team
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Contents
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Manual 8
Gin Gliders website 8
Gin Gliders and the environment 9
Respect for nature and the environment 9
Environmentally-friendly recycling 9
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Safety advice 10
Safety notices 10
Liability, warranty exclusion and operating limitations 11
Liability and warranty exclusion 11
Operating limitations 11
Glider categories and guidelines 12
EN/LTF certication 12
Description of ight characteristics 12
Target group and recommended ying experience 12
Description of pilot skills required 12
Suitability for training 12
Before the rst ight 13
Harness 13
Reserve 14
Weight range 14
Overload 14
First ight 14
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Preparation for launch 15
Material check 15
Pre-ight check 15
5-point check 16
General warnings and advice 16
Launching 16
Forward launch 16
Reverse launch 17
Tips for paragliding take-o 17
Knots or loops in the lines 17
In-ight characteristics 17
Normal ight 17
Accelerated ight 18
Turning 18
Active ying 18
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Rapid descent techniques 19
Spiral dives 19
B-Stall 20
Big ears 21
Landing 21
Range of use 22
Towing 22
Attaching the towline release system 23
Paramotoring 24
Tandem paragliding 24
Aerobatics 24
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Dangerous situations 25
SIV / Safety training 25
Material stress 25
Canopy Collapses 26
Asymmetric collapses 26
Cravat / glider wrapped around lines 26
Symmetric collapses (Front stall) 27
Types of stall 27
Deep stall (parachuting, stable stall) 28
Full stall (dynamic stall) 28
Spin 29
Other tips for dangerous situations 29
Cascade 29
Emergency steering (rear riser steering) 29
Flying in the rain 29
Advertising and adhesives 30
Overloading 30
Sand and salt air 30
Temperature range 30
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Storing the paraglider 31
Packing the paraglider 31
Rucksack 32
Storing and transporting the glider 32
Care 33
Ground handling 33
Fabric 33
Lines 34
Rigid construction 34
Cleaning 34
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Maintenance 35
Type designation 35
Regular inspections 35
Lines 35
Inspection periods 36
Validity of inspection 36
Inspection by the pilot 36
Repairs 37
Gin Gliders workshops 37
Small repairs to the glider 37
GIN quality and service 37
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Introducing the Bolero 6 38
Delivery 38
Manufacturing 38
Overall illustration 39
Technical data 39
Riser and speed system 40
Riser 40
Riser diagram 40
Riser lengths 41
Speed System 41
Line system, brakes and line plan 42
Line system 42
Brake line adjustment 42
Factory setting 42
Incorrect adjustment 43
Line layout 44
Materials 45
 
Glider details 46
Pilot details / Proof of ownership 46
Inspections and repairs overview 47
Notes 47
Addresses 48
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Gin Gliders
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Dream
In forming Gin Gliders, designer and competition pilot Gin Seok Song had one simple dream:
to make the best possible paragliding equipment that pilots all over the world would love to
y—whatever their ambitions.
At Gin Gliders, we bring together consultant aerodynamicists, world cup pilots, engineers
and paragliding school instructors, all with one goal: creating better paragliders.
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Touch
We’re a “hands-on” company that puts continuous innovation and development at the centre
of everything we do.
At our purpose-built R&D workshop at head oce in Korea, we are able to design,
manufacture, test-y and modify prototypes all in a matter of hours. Our international R&D
team is on hand both in Korea and at locations worldwide. This guarantees that your
equipment has been thoroughly tested to cope with the toughest ying conditions.
Our own production facilities in East Asia ensure the quality of the nished product and also
the well-being of our production sta. Our facilities are independently certied to AS9100C
(Aerospace standard) and also to ISO 9001:2008.
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Believe
We believe that the product should speak for itself. Only by ying can the pilot understand the
wing and develop trust and condence in it. From this feeling comes safety, comfort,
performance and fun. The grin when you land should say it all!
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Manual
We recommend that you familiarise yourself with your new paraglider by reading this manual
before your rst ight. This will allow you to acquaint yourself its new functions, to learn the
best way to y the paraglider in various situations, and explain how to get the best out of your
paraglider. Information in this manual on design of the paraglider, technical data and
illustrations are subject to change. We reserve the right to make changes without prior
notication.
The manual complies with the EN airworthiness and forms part of the certication.
It is comprised of:
1. Manual (this document):
Instructions on getting started and using the paraglider
2. Inspection Information:
General instructions and guidance on carrying out the regular inspection of
paragliders
3. Glider details:
Pilot details , proof of ownership and inspections and repairs overview
This manual was current at the time of publication, and may also be downloaded from the
GIN website.
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Gin Gliders website
Gin Gliders has a comprehensive website, which provides additional information about the
Bolero 6, any updates to the manual and many other issues related to paragliding.
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On the Gin Gliders website, you will nd an extensive range of accessories for your paraglider
and other useful products.
You will also nd links there to other services and websites:
●Gin Gliders Shops
●Facebook, Twitter & youtube
These websites and their content are provided for your use. The content of Gin Gliders
websites has been made available for your use on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Gin
Gliders reserves the right to alter the websites at any time or to block access to them.
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Gin Gliders and the environment
Protection of the environment, safety and quality are the three basic values of Gin Gliders and
these have implications on everything we do. We also believe that our customers share our
environmental awareness.
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You can easily play a part in protection of the environment by practising our sport in such a
way that there is no damage to nature and the areas in which we y. Keep to marked trails,
take your rubbish away with you, refrain from making unnecessary noise and respect the
sensitive biological equilibrium of nature. Consideration for nature is required even at the
launch site!
Paragliding is, of course, an outdoor sport – protect and preserve our planet’s resources.
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Gin Gliders gives consideration to the entire lifecycle of its paragliders, the last stage of which
is recycling in an environmentally-friendly manner. The synthetic materials used in a
paraglider must be disposed of properly. If you are not able to arrange appropriate disposal,
Gin Gliders will be happy to recycle the paraglider for you. Send the glider with a short note to
this eect to the address given in the appendix.
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Safety
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Safety advice
Paragliding demand a high level of individual responsibility. Prudence and risk-awareness are
basic requirements for the safe practice of the sport, for the very reason that it is so easy to
learn and practically anyone can do so. Carelessness and overestimating one’s own abilities
can quickly lead to critical situations. A reliable assessment of conditions for ying is
particularly important. Paragliders are not designed to be own in turbulent weather. Most
serious accidents with paragliders are caused by pilots misjudging the weather for ying.
In Germany, paragliders are subject to the guidelines for air sports equipment and must not
under any circumstances be own without a valid certication. Independent experimentation
is strictly prohibited. This Manual does not replace the need to attend training at a paragliding
school.
The manual must be passed on to any new owner if the paraglider is sold. It is part of the
certication and belongs with the paraglider.
Observe the other specic safety advice in the various sections of this manual.
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Safety notices
Safety notices are issued when defects arise during use of a paraglider which could possibly
also aect other gliders of the same model. The notices contain instructions on how the
aected gliders can be inspected for possible faults and the steps required to rectify them.
Gin Gliders publishes on its website any technical safety notices and airworthiness
instructions which are issued in respect of GIN products. The paraglider owner is responsible
for carrying out the action required by the safety notice.
Safety notices are issued by the certication agencies and also published on the relevant
websites. You should therefore visit on a regular basis the safety pages of the certication
agencies and keep up-to-date with new safety notices which cover any products relating to
paragliding.
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