Tests and safety

Reflex paragliders can be tested in flight as the classic paragliders are, by traditional, well-established European Norm procedures. However, tests are performed with only fully closed trimmers (slow settings). The reason is, with released trimmers (fast settings) some manoeuvres routinely done during trials are impossible to execute or unreliable when attempted on reflex paragliders. This does not mean that a reflex paraglider is unsafe when flown with released trimmers – quite the contrary: for example it is so much tuck-resistant, that it can’t be properly tested with traditional methods. Such a situation happens only when the paraglider is a truly reflex one, and that can be proven by measuring in-flight loads of individual risers (link).

Dudek Paragliders performed such tests in case of Action/Reaction models (see above) as well as Nucleon and Synthesis.

Nucleon:

Synthesis:

Both paragliders demonstrated definite reflex features.