Aeros SX Manuel utilisateur
sx
USER’ SMANUAL
BESITZERSHANDBUCH
1. INTRODUCTION
SX is a rescue parachute system intended for use by paraglider and hang glider pilots. The system
provides additional safety in flight. Nevertheless, there is no guarantee of 100% safety in emergencies.
Although the SX is perfect for low-speed deployment, any emergency system can be misused, and
therefore become unsafe. At all times use the SX at your own risk. To reduce the risk of unsafe operation
carefully view and understand all aspects of this Manual, properly fold and keep your rescue system.
2. SPECIFICATIONS
3. MAINTENANCE
As your parachute is made of nylon, it is sensitive to ultra violet radiation. The container and the
deployment bag protect the canopy from exposure to direct sunlight. However, for maximum protection,
always store your parachute away from sunlight. Heat can also be destructive for nylon. Although nylon
threads are destroyed at temperature exceeding 150°C, any heat has an ageing effect on the parachute.
Height loss depends upon both horizontal and vertical speed at the moment of deployment.
Size M L XL
Area sq. m 29,5 36 42
Paraglider rescue assembly weight kg 1,7 2 2,3
HG rescue assembly weight kg 2 2,3 2,6
Total payload kg 100 120 140
Type
Canopy construction block/bias
Surface
Rigging lines
Parachute Canopy Shape Pulled Apex
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Gelvenor Nylon F01-PZ
Cousin Polyamide 2 mm (154 daN)/ 3,3 mm (375 daN)
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If your parachute becomes damp or wet, you have to open it and hung to dry in a shaded place. If
organically based substances or salt water are spilt on the parachute, wash it with the warm water and a
mild liquid soap. Hand rinses thoroughly and hangs to dry in a shaded place. If organic acids or oils are
spilt on the parachute, you have to treat the contaminated area with a neutralizer.
NOTE: outer bag
Unfold the canopy and
leave it for a week to find out whether permanent damage has been caused by such contamination. If
your parachute needs repair, contact your dealer or the manufacturer.
To ensure the continued serviceability to your parachute, it is necessary to repack it every 120 days.
Unlike a personal parachute used in registered aircraft, or a parachute used for intentional parachute
descents, this equipment does not have to be packed by an authorised person, you can do it yourself.
For this reason, please, read carefully maintenance and packing procedures as detailed in this manual.
4. DEPLOYMENT PROCEDURES
The suggested minimum deployment height is 60-70 metres. However, should there be perfect
horizontal and vertical speed of your paraglider/hang glider at the moment of deployment as well as your
throw strength and direction, the minimum height for successful parachute deployment could be as low
as 30 metres A.G.L. Even if you doubt that your parachute could be helpful, you should deploy it.
4.1. DEPLOYMENT WHEN FLYING A HANG GLIDER
Once you have decided to use your parachute, remove it from the container by pulling the handle and
throw in the direction of least resistance, i.e. away from cables, tubes and the sail of hang glider. If
spinning, throw it in the direction of the spin. If tumbling, wait until the ground can be seen before
throwing. To perform the throw more effectively, grab hold of the hang glider frame with your other hand.
Opening time will depend upon the horizontal and vertical speed. As the landing approaches, behave in
the following way: Do not attempt to stand straight for the landing. Brace yourself against the control bar
so that the "A" frame or another part of the frame would be struck by the ground first. Then during the
destruction of the frame your vertical speed will decrease and you will get softer landing.
Check your arm reach in the prone position before sewing the parachute to the
harness.
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Make sure you can reach the emergency handle before you permanently fix the parachute to the
harness.
Make sure your choice of position will not interfere with the control bar in all possible flight positions.
You may additionally need to raise the harness by shortening the suspension lines, to enable the
parachute to clear the control bar.
4.2. DEPLOYMENT WHEN FLYING A PARAGLIDER
Once you have decided to use your parachute, remove it from the container by pulling the handle and
throw it up at the angle of 45?. If spinning, throw it in the direction of the spin. If failing, try that again after
you have picked the canopy up. .
For the landing, keep your knees slightly bent, land on both feet and use your leg muscles to absorb the
shock. If necessary, roll over one shoulder in the classic parachutist style.
There are innumerable situations where it may be necessary to use your parachute. To achieve correct
parachute deployment, thoroughly practice operation using the simulator extreme mode prior to actual
use. To save your time in flight, carefully train to grab hold of the emergency handle with your hand.
Before grabbing the handle it is necessary to look at it first, to ensure that your hand finds it easily.
This system must not be used as a sport parachute, and users must be aware that it is intended solely
as an emergency system. Although a test for landing on the firm surface has been carried out, we do not
recommend you to be trained in such mode.
At all times operating the emergency system is the extreme case of emergencies being not entirely
predictable.
Try to through your rescue successfully with force attempt
CAUTION
WARNING
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5. PACKING INSTRUCTIONS
5.1. Lay the canopy on a folding table or another flat and clean surface which is wide and long enough to
unfold the whole canopy and the rigging lines.
5.2. Air out the canopy, make sure that no gores cling to each other. Remove any unwanted material,
grass etc.
5.3. Insert any spare rope into 18 loops in the middle of the seams
connecting the gores. Attach this rope to any fixed point. Attach
the main bridle to another fixed point, tensioning the rigging lines
until they are straight with a force of approximately 5 kg.
5.4. Place the lines on either side of the pull down line
symmetrically, that is, the lines 1-9 on the left side and the lines
10-18 on the right.
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5.5. Place the bores identified by the lines 1-2, ... 9 to the left,
and the bores identified by the lines 10, ... 18-1 to the right.
5.6. Make sure that each gore is folded properly and the seams of
each bore are parallel, being straight and slightly tensioned. To
achieve the desired effect you may use little sand bags.
5.7. Join the two groups of lines and the pull down line, making
one group of lines.
5.8. Fold each gore set as “S”-shape reducing the width of the
gores in this way.
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5.9.
Reattach the main bridle also.
Reattach the spare rope from the fixed point and
remove it from all loops.
5.10. Group the rigging lines in an S-form along the canopy base.
Fix the lines with six rubber bands.
5.11. S-Fold the beginning from the apex.
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5.12. Put it into the inner bag.
5.13. Put the lines onto the canopy.
5.14. On one of the big flaps there is a rubber loop, attached to it.
Close this flap first. Then close flaps starting from the opposite to
the flap with rubber loop by pulling the rubber loop through the
grommets of flaps, from below. Pull the rigging lines through this
rubber loop, leaving a loop of lines about 3-5 cm.
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NOTE: Further procedures are different when packing Paragliding (Section 6) and Hang Gliding
(Section 7) versions.
6. PACKING THE PARAGLIDING VERSION
Connect the main bridle to the harness bridle with the running knot.
Put the container with the parachute into the inner bag.
Secure the container of your harness according to harness manual.
7. PACKING THE HANG GLIDING VERSION
The Hang Gliding version differsfrom Paragliding version by longer (6 m) bridle.
To pack rescue into the hanggliding harness use manual for HG harness.
8. DURABILITY
Durability of rescue depends on the different reasons, like maintenance, repacking etc.
We recommend to replace your rescue each 10 years.
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