Zippy PT has distinct self-stabilising flight characteristics, thus is very fault-tolerant regarding steering mistakes during take-off and flight. Handling is smooth and has a subtle modulation.

With activated performance trims (2 levels) the wing is accelerated a little bit and particularly it is much more stable. Choppy air streams get smoothed by the performance trims and it is almost impossible for the pilot to draw a frontal or asymmetric collapse.

Especially the two-level performance trims (PT), which can be activated according to the pilots' capability and flight conditions. So the pilot can fly with either four, two or no PTs activated. The PT are activated/deactivated simply by opening respectively closing the zippers before take-off.

The PT cause:

• Reduction of gliding performance by up to 2.5
• Increase of sink rate by up to 0.4 m/s

Thus you have three gliders in one! Depending on flight conditions you can increase the passive safety on days with strong thermals by activating the PTs.

For paragliding schools the big advantage of Zippy PT is, that the pilot trainees can still fly when the conditions are getting "too good" to fly with a normal A-wing at the training slope, without having them flying too far away. Thus flying Zippy PT results in a bigger time frame for schooling and more training flights.

First of all that depends on your personal requirements, too. Zippy PT with deactivated PTs provides considerable performance! Thus it is well suitable for your first distance flights . These facts make Cruiser³ a constant companion not only to casual pilots.

On days with strong thermals the PTs will provide additional passive safety even after schooling. Thus Zippy PT is suitable even for the more adventurous licensed pilots with only little experience considering thermal flights or for infrequent pilots, who go flying after having paused for a while.