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You should continually maintain your glider in a proper state of tune to insure optimum
performance and flight characteristics for a long time.
We recommend that you do not expose your glider to any more solar radiation than necessary.
Do not leave your glider on the control bar for a long time when the wind is strong. It will decrease
the life of your sail. Keep the glider under your care.
Do not fold a wet sail. In case of necessity you should unfold the sail and dry it thoroughly as soon
as possible.
Your sail should never be washed in anything other that fresh water without any soap or detergent.
If you set up or break down your glider take care not to allow sand, soil and dirt to enter your sail,
batten pockets or tubes.
Keep the telescopic connectors thoroughly clean as their dirtying will make the set up or break
down diffiucult or impossible.
HAPPY FLYING !
5.4. Sail height measurement of KPL 2 wings.
The following procedure is to enable a check of hang gliders' sail reflex:
5.4.1. Rig wing on level ground ready for flight.
5.4.2. Lift glider on vertical support (height is about 1,5 m) which support wing in three points: in a
place of connection of leading edge and cross beam and also in a place behind of connection of rear
bottom cables to a keel tube.
5.4.3. Run 10 lbs fishing line from each pair of batten ends number 6, 7, 9 for KPL 14 and number
5, 6, 8 for KPL 13. Pull it tight.
5.4.4. Measure and record distances between the lines and the top of keel tube. Make two mesuares:
when VG is on and off. When VG on you must take out rear part of keel tube and make
measurements concerning a top level of keel tube (you can use long rule which is necessary densely
to put on top keel tube).
5.4.5. Ensure the line runs cleanly from the center of butten. See fig. A.
5.4.6. If recorded distances are less than those of the table AA the wing should not be flown until
re-adjusted as follows. To fly a wing with incorrect heights of sail should result in a fatal accident.
5.4.7. If you' d like to get in a correct range of the sail heights you should open the bottom surface in
a place of LE/X-beam connection and remove washout struts, to make 1-2 rotations of a conical tip
counter-clockwise. After this return the struts on a place and fix this connection. Measure a new sail
heights and if necessary make the same adjustment again.
In this way you can correct assymetrical fly at VG on position.
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