Team Ozone; Your Geo - GEO ozone 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 Dav Dagault and Rob
Whittall who just don't ever stop; they are pilots with a wealth of
experience both in competition and adventure flying, as well as PG
design. Also on the design team are test pilots Antoine Boissellier,
who is equally at home on a pg or a hg, and Jerome Canaud, a true
acro spirit - they can usually be found putting Dav's latest creation
through a series of acro manoeuvres. Antoine is also kept busy
promoting our wings and looking after our team of pilots.
Back in the office Mike 'Da Boss' Cavanagh and Sam Lowe look after
the finances and generally keep control of the mayhem. Making sure
that your glider gets from our factory to you as quickly as possible is
Claire Drury, who also works on our kites and accessories range.
Meanwhile hidden in a corner, trying to avoid looking at the flyable
conditions outside are Marcus King and Manu Prissette who look after
all our adverts, videos and communication, as well as trying to keep
the computers running.
The kite team are made up of manager Matt Taggart and product
developer Tom Bourdeau, who along with Rob continue to push our
kite designs and build kite sales whilst getting out there doing it as
much as possible.
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
Cyril Friaud, Ngan and 170 production staff all dedicated to Ozone
production.

YOUR GEO

The Geo has been designed as a lightweight glider suitable for para-
alpanism, vol bivouac flying or just to make life easier when travelling
with your glider. In 2003 David Dagault our designer took part in the
X-Alps race, travelling from Dachenstein in Austria to Monaco using
only his glider and his feet. This incredible experience has taught
him a lot about what is needed from a glider used for vol-bivouac
flying and para-alpanism.
launching in the mountains can be, how turbulent the air can be and
how strong the winds can be. With this knowledge we set about
creating a new lightweight wing. We started from the base of the
Mojo with it's already proved combination of great performance,
simplicity and safety, we knew that it's easy launching characteristics
and and excellent passive safety were perfect for a glider used in a
mountain environment.
We know most pilots that are flying a light weight glider and
undertaking these type of adventures are already experienced pilots
so we have worked hard to create a glider that is enjoyable to fly with
great performance so they don't feel like they are going flying with
an out of date glider when they go hiking. We've re worked the arc
of the Geo to get a glider with a higher trim speed and better glide,
that cuts through turbulence, whilst retaining the Mojo's solidness at
all speeds. The brake cascades have also been revised to give
handling that is more direct with more agility and control
The Geo also takes technology from our previous light weight glider
the peak, which has been used in mountains around the world from
Nepal to Peru. Weight has been reduced with the use of the special
light weight dyneema risers and speedbar, as well as light weight
pulleys and maillons.
We think we have created a glider that although lightweight still has
excellent performance and safety. And with it's excellent launching
characteristics you will feel confident on those mountain top
launches.
We always love to hear feedback about our gliders, good or bad, so
please send us your thoughts and take time fill out the questionnaire
in his manual. Don't forget to let us know about the adventures your
Geo takes you on.
Safe flying and here's to many adventures with your glider...
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He found out first hand how tricky