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  • Page 2 SAFETY NOTE By the purchase of Woody Valley equipment, you are responsible for being a certified paraglider pilot and you accept all risks inherent with paragliding activities including injury and death. Improper use or misuse of equipment greatly increases these risks. In no case shall Woody Valley or Woody Valley equipment resellers be held liable for personal or third party injuries or damages under any circumstances.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    INDEX 1- GENERAL INFORMATION ..................................... 1 1.1- C ................................................2 ONCEPT 1.2- X-ALPS GTO ..........................................2 PROTECTION 1.3- M ............................................2 YSTEM 1.4- S.O.S. L ............................................... 3 ABER 2- BEFORE USE ......................................... 3 2.1- R ............................................4 ESERVE PARACHUTE 2.1.1- Connecting the deployment handle to the deployment bag ............................4 2.1.2- Connecting the reserve parachute to the harness .................................
  • Page 4 2.3.5- Stabilizer ..............................................19 2.3.6- ABS adjustment ............................................ 19 2.3.7- Leg cover ..............................................20 2.3.8- Speed-bar adjustment ........................................21 3- FLYING WITH THE X-ALPS GTO HARNESS ................................ 22 3.1- P ............................................22 FLIGHT CHECKS 3.2- P ................................................22 OCKETS 3.3- W ...............................................

  • Page 5: 1- General Information

    1- GENERAL INFORMATION This equipment should contain:  Harness  Carbon seat plate  Composite foot plate  Hook-in karabiners  Emergency parachute deployment handle  Two spare elastic loops for fastening the emergency parachute container  Three step speed-bar ...

  • Page 6: Concept

    1.1- Concept Following the success of the first model, the new version of the X-Alps GTO includes a number of improvements and new technical features designed to improve the safety and pleasure of flying, while at the same time maintaining the lightness, comfort and control requirements that have always distinguished Woody Valley products.

  • Page 7: S.o.s. Laber

    2- BEFORE USE The X-ALPS GTO harness is supplied with dorsal protection and a polycarbonate plate, which have already been assembled by the manufacturer. The emergency parachute must be fitted with great care by a qualified professional, such as your instructor. Only after this...

  • Page 8: Reserve Parachute

    2.1.1- Connecting the deployment handle to the deployment bag X-ALPS GTO is supplied with a handle for reserve parachute extraction. It is identified with the n. 6; this handle alone should be used for this purpose. The black loop attached to the handle itself should be passed into the loop on the deployment bag, and then the entire handle should be passed through its own loop and pulled tight.

  • Page 9: 2- Connecting The Reserve Parachute To The Harness

    2.1.2- Connecting the reserve parachute to the harness There are three different methods of attaching the reserve parachute bridle to the harness bridle. First system: Use a screw-lock karabiner with a breaking strength of at least 2400 kg. In this case, the bridles should be held in position within the karabiner using elastic bands, to prevent the karabiner from rotating and taking the strain laterally instead of vertically.
  • Page 10 Third system: If you are using a reserve parachute with directional control and dual bridle, or if your reserve parachute in any case has a double-riser bridle, it can be connected to the harness using the two loops positioned at the base of the harness bridle, near the padded shoulder straps. In this case, the harness’...

  • Page 11: 3- Inserting The Reserve Parachute Into The Harness

    IMPORTANT: -To prevent anomalous lateral loads, the bridle should be attached to both the loops on the shoulder straps. Not to just one of them. 2.1.3- Inserting the reserve parachute into the harness Insert the reserve parachute into the pocket of the harness, so that the handle is visible and facing outwards, and the loop connecting the handle to the deployment bag is facing upwards.

  • Page 12: 4- Extracting The Reserve Parachute

    Thread a thin cord (such as paraglider riser cords) through each elastic loop. This will help close the pocket. Thread the elastic loops into the smallest of the eyelets on the pocket flaps. Close the flaps following the order shown in the photographs below.

  • Page 13: Front Reserve Parachute

    Pull the handle outwards in order to extract the reserve parachute from the harness container. Look for a clear area, and, in a continuous motion, throw the reserve parachute away from yourself and the paraglider. After the reserve parachute has opened, avoid entanglement by pulling in the paraglider, gripping at least one D line, or the brake lines, in order to collapse the glider.

  • Page 14: 2- Connecting The Front Emergency Parachute To The Harness

    2.2.2- Connecting the front emergency parachute to the harness There are two methods for connecting the emergency parachute bridle to the harness risers. First system: Use a karabiner with a screw collar and a breaking strength of at least 2400 kg. In this case, the emergency parachute risers should be held in position within the karabiner using elastic bands, to prevent the karabiner from rotating into a lateral position which could cause it to undergo a dangerous lateral stress in the case of deployment.

  • Page 15: 3- Inserting The Front Emergency Parachute

    opens. To ensure that the link between the two bridles remains tight, remember to fasten the knot using the Velcro strip on the harness reserve parachute bridle. 2.2.3- Inserting the front emergency parachute Fasten the emergency parachute bridle using the two Velcro strips inside the parachute container, ensuring that the two loops leading to the main karabiners are on opposite sides and emerge from the cockpit symmetrically, therefore with the same length.
  • Page 16 Insert the parachute into the harness container so that the deployment handle is visible and facing outwards, and with the loop that connects the handle to the deployment back facing upwards. Thread a thin cord (such as a paraglider shroud line) into each elastic loop. This will make it easier to close the container.

  • Page 17: 4- Extracting The Front Reserve Parachute

    The container is connected using the special buckles and must be fastened to the leg-cover using the zipper. The parachute container houses the instrument compartment, which is also connected using a zipper. IMPORTANT: - Each new combination of emergency parachute and harness or emergency parachute container to be assembled for the first time should be checked to ensure that the emergency parachute can be correctly deployed, by an official harness or emergency parachute dealer, or by a flight instructor.

  • Page 18: 5- Back Storage Pocket

    Pull the handle outwards in order to extract the reserve parachute from the harness container. Look for a clear area, and, in a continuous motion, throw the reserve parachute away from yourself and the paraglider. After the reserve parachute has opened, avoid entanglement by pulling in the paraglider, gripping at least one D line, or the brake lines, in order to collapse the glider.

  • Page 19: Harness Adjustments

    Please remember that the size of your X-ALPS GTO harness should be chosen according to your height, and not according to seat width. Unlike a harness based on a fundamentally seated position, in which the height of the seat back is not essential for good comfort, in this harness the pilot flies in a more supine position, and so the height of the back support is very important for good comfort and a correct flying position.

  • Page 20: 1- Adjusting Seat And Back Position

    width. To adjust the harness to the optimum position, we recommend simulating flight position by hanging the harness from a suitable fixed point, therefore with all the items that you normally carry in flight inserted into the back pocket. IMPORTANT: - Before making any adjustments, the emergency parachute must be inserted.

  • Page 21: 2- Shoulder Strap Adjustment

    If you wish to work on the adjustments, the first strap should be loosened before adjusting the main strap to the point of optimum comfort. Once you have completed these steps, tighten the covering strap again in order to lock the adjustment setting. 2.3.2- Shoulder strap adjustment Adjustment of the shoulder pads compensates for the variation in pilot height and the adjustment buckle is located in front of the pilot's shoulder.

  • Page 22: 3- Chest Strap Adjustment

    2.3.3- Chest strap adjustment The chest strap which controls the distance between the two karabiners can be adjusted from 40 to 55 cm. For the first flight with X-ALPS GTO, we suggest setting the chest strap to the minimum length, then locating the preferred length in flight by means of gradual adjustment. When the chest strap is shorter and tighter, stability is greater.

  • Page 23: 5- Stabilizer

    X-ALPS GTO is supplied with this adjustment set to a position that is suitable for most pilots. If you wish to change this setting, take great care and make very small changes, just a few millimeters every...

  • Page 24: 7- Leg Cover

    2.3.7- Leg cover The leg cover has also been optimized. In particular, the closure has been improved with the inclusion of a magnet that even keeps it closed at high speeds, thus eliminating the ‘‘flapping’’ phenomenon. The geometry of the front leg-cover’s automatic closing system has also been modified in order to facilitate the insertion of the legs after takeoff.

  • Page 25: 8- Speed-Bar Adjustment

    2.3.8- Speed-bar adjustment X-ALPS GTO includes a three-step speed-bar, made with slim fabric webbing to decrease harness weight. The length of the speed-bar system should be adjusted only after the optimum harness adjustments have been completed. To set the speed-bar correctly, the pilot should sit in the harness in a simulator, hook in to the paraglider risers, and, with a helper supporting the risers, adjust the length of the speed-bar straps.

  • Page 26: 3- Flying With The X-Alps Gto Harness

    3.2- Pockets The X-ALPS GTO harness has a roomy back pocket and various side pockets. One of the latter is situated close to the main karabiners; it is ideal for a radio or mobile phone, and it is fitted with a safety loop. The harness has another two large side pockets. The instrument deck was designed so that it can easily be removed from the cockpit, so that the pilot can have the instruments with him or her at all times, for briefing, or to protect them from the pressure that may be caused by folding the harness.

  • Page 28: Water Bladder

    3.3- Water bladder The X-ALPS GTO harness was designed specifically for use with a water bladder. Place the water bladder as shown in the photo, in the respective location positioned in the rear storage pocket. Push the tube through the eye on the harness. The tube should run below the Lycra cover of the shoulder strap, emerging from the eye as shown in the photo.
  • Page 29 adjusting the buckle position and strap length, the designed height and angle of the surface on which the instruments rest during flight can be adjusted. The ballast discharge tube has been installed in such a way so that it leads into the right-hand pocket, from which the tap can be easily extracted and operated.

  • Page 30: Installing The Lower Ballast

    Open the zipper beneath the instrument compartment (1) to access the ballast lodging (2). Next, open the Velcro over the discharge tube’s outlet hole (3) and insert the tube (4). There is a second through-hole (5) inside the harness, which allows the discharge tube to be inserted into the external pocket, where it can be hidden and extracted whenever necessary (6).

  • Page 31: Flying Above Water

    3.6- Flying above water There are no specific problems connected to flying above water using an X-ALPS GTO harness, but in any case, landing in water is always dangerous. Woody Valley recommends using a suitable lifejacket when flying above water..

  • Page 32: Landing With The X-Alps Gto

    3.8- Landing with the X-ALPS GTO Before landing, slide your legs out and off the seat surface, so that you take up a standing position. Never land in the seated position; it is very dangerous for your back even if you have foam dorsal protection, which provides exclusively passive protection. Standing up before landing is an active safety precaution, and it is much more effective than passive forms of protection.

  • Page 33: 4- Packing The Harness

    4- PACKING THE HARNESS The X-ALPS GTO harness can be packed in the rucsac either with the paraglider hooked to the karabiners, or packed separately. Fold the front tip of the seat, the inflatable tail at the back, and bring the two karabiners together. Place the folded paraglider onto the harness. Cover both with the rucsac, ensuring that the latter is positioned with the side in contact with the back upwards.

  • Page 34: 5- Features And Assembly Of Optional Accessories

    5.2- Emergency parachute container with deployment on the left Woody Valley offers an important optional for your X-ALPS GTO. The container for the emergency parachute can be mounted on the left-hand side, for use by left-handed pilots.

  • Page 35: Side Protection

    5.3 - Side protection The X-Alps GTO is predisposed for the installation of side protection elements (optional) in order to ensure better protection against impacts and shocks in the event of an accident. The procedure for installing the side protection elements is shown below: Open the rear of the harness (1) and slide the side protection element past the back protector until you find the appropriate lodging for the side protection element itself (2).

  • Page 36: 6- Maintenance And Repairs

    Zip fasteners should be kept clean and lubricated with silicone spray. In the case of making any request to an official retailer or Woody Valley for maintenance operations, please quote the complete identification number shown on the silver label in the rear pocket.

  • Page 37: 7- Dati Tecnici

    Size of polycarbonate seat, size XL Width rear 26,5 cm; Width front 23,5; depth 41,5 cm Total weight of X-ALPS GTO, size L, complete with reserve M = 5,00 Kg; L = 5,35 Kg; XL = 5,70 Kg parachute handle, karabiners and protection...

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