Readsome of the comments about the GOLDEN II found in the "Paragliding Forum":
I flew my new Golden 2 26 (80-100) @ 94 all up today. BRAVO to Gradient for making an AWESOME wing. Great sink rate, Speed AND handling. Go get ya a test flight for sure or just order one you will love it!
Hanggliders pilot for 14 yrs just turned BiwingualIt was interesting to see that "Gleitschirm" consider Gradient handling to be in a class of their own, "legendary" was the word they used, as I recall.
Regards , CharlI just bought and tested both. The Golden II is faster than the #####. It also handles more to my liking. Giving the choice I choose the G2 ALL DAY. Faster, Better handling and so on. Just My real world results. Oh yea Brand New ##### for sale
Ground handling very easy and seems to bite into the small stuff if asked to. It made me look very good at a small site near Folkestone watched by school kids asking if I was going to fly down. 15 minutes and one nice cycle later, up to 250 ft and a very ordered top landing on the slope. Thank you Gradient for making me look impressive!!
Steve U
For the last few weeks I was fortunate enough to test-fly a Golden2. Wow what a nice 'all-rounder'. Coming from a ######, everything seems better - in more then one way
Mario
Flew one the other day. I loved it. Fairly soft with a lot of information transmitted back to the pilot. Light, soft and moderately long brakes. Fairly damped in pitch and roll. Mildly energetic and reasonable speed at trim. Mid range 1-2 I would say. Performance up with the best and feels very fast on speed bar. Handling felt exceptional to me. Not ultra quick or crisp but very very nice. I had a big smile every time I flew it.
Rob
I just completed a 3-day maneuvers clinic on my new Golden 2. I had 2 flights on this wing prior to the clinic and had recently been flying the Golden 1. I'm not very experienced but thought I would share my experience and the instructor's comments. I pulled extremely large frontals and asymmetric, on normal glide and 60% speed bar? all was benign. Locked in spiral dives was easy to enter and recover from. The wing had little tendency to dive on the (large) asymmetric collapses on speed bar. On the third day I was comfortable enough to move into full stall recovery and experienced 5 of these ( wow!). Very stable wing, had great recovery from all maneuvers and I gained a lot of confidence. The instructor commented that it was the best wing in the group of 9 gliders out there in terms of its' recovery from these maneuvers. I'm a happy pilot.
Steve T.Etc. etc....
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