Team Ozone; Your Addict - Ozone addict Betriebshandbuch

TEAM OZONE

Everyone at Ozone continues to be driven by our passion for flying,
our love of adventure and our quest to see Ozone's paraglider
development create better, safer and more versatile paragliders.
Paragliding design is led by the ever thoughtful David Dagault; Dav
has a wealth of experience both in competition, adventure flying and
paraglider design. Also on the design team are test pilots Jerome
Canaud and Russell Ogden. Jerome is a true acro spirit who has
instructed paragliding for many years. Russell is a top competition
pilot and paragliding instructor - they can usually be found putting
Dav's latest creation through a series of acro maneuvers.
Back in the office Mike 'Da Boss' Cavanagh generally keeps control of
the mayhem. Promotion and Team pilots are organised by Matt
Gerdes, our resident base jumping expert. Manu Prissette looks after
all our adverts, videos and communication, as well as trying to keep
the computers running. Karine Marconi makes sure we don't spend
too much money whilst if you phone us you are likely to hear the
dulcet tones of Nicky Watts.
Our manufacturing facility in Vietnam is headed up by Dr Dave
Pilkington, who works relentlessly manufacturing gliders and
producing prototypes as well as researching materials and
manufacturing processes for our future products. He is backed up by
Ngan and 400 production staff

YOUR ADDICT

After two years of testing, countless prototypes, and hundreds of
hours test flying, the Addict was born. Our aim was to produce a high
performance XC wing well within the DHV 2 category and we feel we
have achieved this with the Addict.
The glider's evolution saw several different planforms; many line
plans, and different concepts of sail tension. Finding the right balance
between performance and the trademark Ozone handling was
difficult, but has been achieved through carefully moderating the
amount of sail tension to provide a comfortable feeling in flight, and
by creating a turn that is precise and direct, despite the wing's high
aspect ratio.
The Addict provides a sensation of constant lift: whether in a turn,
calm air, or turbulence, the glider cuts smoothly through the
atmosphere. This is a result of combining a high lift profile and clean,
efficient planform to produce the highest performance and sweetest
handling wing in this category.
After many prototypes, the profile of the Addict was chosen for its
ideal sink rate throughout the speed range and its pitch stability.
The planform of the Addict is based on the successful Mantra
competition wing. Special attention was given to the wingtips of the
glider, which have been designed to allow maximum lift and minimum
interference and drag at higher speeds. Great care was taken in
optimizing the sail tension to gain the best balance between safety,
handling and comfort.
Careful selection of materials has allowed us to fully optimize the
design. You can find more information on the chosen materials and
an insight into why we chose to use them elsewhere in this manual.
The line attachment points have been reduced to a minimum to
reduce parasitic drag near
performance.
The Addict is incredibly efficient, while retaining high passive safety
and precision in flight. Its solid characteristics will inspire confidence
in your flying and will carry you to the furthest goals, in the
the profile for increased glide