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   SkykidDenmark
   

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   OK here i go, I apoligize for my english, it's not that good

   I would like to get into speedriding this season, and I am going to a course in val dieser with UCPA. I'm gonna have 23 hours practicing with an instructor in week 2.
   I am going for another three skiholidays (3 weeks), and would like to have my own wing.

   I have experience with skydiving, 150 jumps in a 170 sqf. Will maybe have more jumps when I go for my speedriding course.
   Also I have been skiing for 10-14 years, and see myself as an excellent skier.

   As I see this sport as dangerous, and I have deeply respect for it, and I'd like to have a good start.

   I have considered a:
   Niviuk Skate 12m^2
   Swing spitfire 11-13m^2
   Maybe a Gin Glider Nano 12m^2

   I am 1,83 Meter high and weigh 70 kg, so I haven’t have a aggressive wing load.

   It will be great if you guys also can give a guess about how fast I will fly, find it hard to find out what speed I am going to fly with.
   Cheers

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   Posted 7 months ago #

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   Swoopn
   

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   Taking into consideration only your flight experience I think your choices are very agressive. An 11m^2 is about a 120 ft^2 (which is what I fly after 7 years of speeflying and nearly 3000 jumps, it is a crossbraced though so not exactly apples to apples but I think you get the point), the upper end of choice of a 13m^2 is about a 140ft^2 wing. If the school you are at has 15m^2 for use, I would go with that and see how you progress, this is going to be closer to what you are accustom to. The spitfire is also a very agressive wing so I would nix it for now (that is my understanding not experience but I am looking to buy one as a second wing). I know there are few pilots in Denmark that you get some advice from also. Good luck with course and welcome to the sport!

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   Posted 7 months ago #
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   SkykidDenmark
   

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   Joined: Oct '11
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   Hey

   Thanks for you answer, I will not go for the spitfire.

   The websites i have been looking at is:
   http://www.aerosupply.se/spitfire.html
   And they wright i should go for 13m2 as a beginner wing, but it is always good to have some other opinions.

   But what about the Gin nano and Niviuk Skate, Tonfly says that the Gin Nano gilder a 12,5m2 is suitet for a beginner....

   Posted 7 months ago #

5. Anonymous
   

   
   
   

   nano 12.5 has been great for me to learn speedflying/ riding on

   Posted 7 months ago #

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