Insight: The new Ozone Photon with designer Luc Armant

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The Ozone Photon is Ozone's new two-line EN C paraglider. Designer Luc Armant explains what pilots need to know, including why this glider has winglets and what they do, how it behaves in stall, what the performance is like, what sort of pilot it is designed for, and what you should do when you go SIV with the Photon.
Filmed at the Stubai Cup, Austria, March 2023.
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@alexraymont2052 Жыл бұрын

Luc is the paragliding design master of the last 15 years. Great to hear from him. Good questions Marcus, thanks.

@lexrobe_fly Жыл бұрын

What a great mind in our sport. Really great we have people like him moving things significantly forward in so many areas. Looking forward to fly one as we now have come a long way with 10 years of refinement, since the very first 6.5 AR 2liner, the Peak 3. Only real downside was the climb in weak stuff, otherwise almost a bullet-proof wing which got me totally hooked on 2liner flying 😃Really keen on seeing how Ozone got that sorted - and ordered one 😝 Thanks for this great interview!

@twpayne Жыл бұрын

Fantastic informative interview, thanks!

@xcmag Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Tom

@FrediBach Жыл бұрын

All I want for spring is that Dyneema X-Alps Photon. Ah, one can dream ... 😀

@Itsallgoodtogo Жыл бұрын

With hair like this you know this man only cares about PG :D Legend!

@redhawk9883 Жыл бұрын

❤💯

@StefJuncker Жыл бұрын

Well done Luc. Should be really good to fly. Why the advance style winglets? Stef Juncker

@amirflyer Жыл бұрын

👍🔥

@tartaria936 Жыл бұрын

what he says about winglets. does it apply also for advance winglets which are more to the sides?

@HelloFlyingKK 9 ай бұрын

Nice wing❤， When will we have Rush 7 ? And will it have winglets?

@MKHNitro Жыл бұрын

Would love to read an objective comparison between the Ozone Photon and the Advance Sigma 11

@xcmag Жыл бұрын

We expect to have a Photon for review soon, and I am sure Ziad will be testing as well so hopefully you will get some answers soon

@madeupwithit Жыл бұрын

A lot of people say a 2-liner should be flown with a seat board harness. How did you find it with the GTO lite? I find the GTO low on weight shift but ok with an Alpina.

@xcmag Жыл бұрын

Hi John I only got to fly it for 30 minutes, as was aware of the queue of people wanting to try it and it was in early thermals. However I found no problem in putting the Photon where I wanted in the thermals flying the GTO and felt right at home on it very quickly. Looking forward to getting to know it better when the review wing arrives.

@madeupwithit Жыл бұрын

@@xcmag Thanks for the info. I look forward to the review.

@mmmmkkk Жыл бұрын

lol, who says that? I doubt even 30% of zeolites, OXAs, klimbers, Scalas, etc are flown with a searboard. It might be not for everyone, but well, that's how it works.

@vikingforties Жыл бұрын

I fly an X-Alps 3 with a Lightness 2 harness which is seatboardless. Flies fine, but it's noticeable when the chest strap is at loosest setting.

@vikingforties Жыл бұрын

Did I hear that right? At 2m 30s, Luc says ~15cm / second difference (in sink rate ?) compared to the Delta 4.

@madeupwithit Жыл бұрын

I thought that sounded like a lot too 😮

@stephennoble741 Жыл бұрын

Ozone said the same for the delta4, a 12cm/s improvement on the delta3

@michelepalma9218 Жыл бұрын

@@stephennoble741 was it true?

@makaronie08 Жыл бұрын

8:08 Bro you could tell the over ambitious Youngsters: Or New Beas a very important lesson... Dont tuch your brakes while using the Speedbar, BRa!

@craspair 5 ай бұрын

mmmh winglet for spiral neutrality doesn`t seems a great sales argument, cause i think if you fly EN-C you should knonw already spiral and exit through SIV course...