Gin Gliders Gingo Owner's Manual
Gingo Owner’s Manual
Please read this manual before flying with the Gingo for the first time.
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Thank You…
Thank you for choosing the Gingo harness. We are confident that this harness will provide you
with enhanced comfort, control, performance and fun in flight. This manual contains all the
information you need to set up, trim, fly and maintain your harness. A thorough knowledge of
your equipment will keep you safe and enable you to maximize your full potential.
Please pass on this manual to the new owner if you do resell your harness.
Happy Flights and Safe Landings,
The GIN Team
Safety Notice
By the purchase of our equipment, you are responsible for being a certified paraglider
pilot and you accept all risks inherent with paragliding activities including injury and
death. Improper use or misuse of GIN equipment greatly increases these risks.
Neither Gin Gliders Inc nor the seller of GIN equipment shall be held liable for
personal or third party injuries or damages under any circumstances. If any aspect of
the use of our equipment remains unclear, please contact your local GIN reseller or
importer in your country.
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Contents
Thank You…..........................................................................................................................2
1. Gin Gliders ........................................................................................................................4
2. Introducing the Gingo.......................................................................................................5
Features of Gingo.....................................................................................................................................6
Optional Extras........................................................................................................................................6
Back protection..................................................................................................................................6
Lateral protection..............................................................................................................................7
Rescue parachute...............................................................................................................................7
Speed bar...........................................................................................................................................8
Flight Deck.........................................................................................................................................8
Other Accessories..............................................................................................................................8
3. Before you fly...................................................................................................................9
Assembly .................................................................................................................................................9
Speed system.....................................................................................................................................9
Back and Lateral Protection...............................................................................................................9
Rescue Installation..........................................................................................................................10
Adjustments...........................................................................................................................................13
Shoulder straps................................................................................................................................13
Lateral straps ..................................................................................................................................13
Leg straps........................................................................................................................................13
Side straps to seat plate.................................................................................................................. 13
Chest strap.......................................................................................................................................13
Speed bar.........................................................................................................................................14
4. Flying with the Gingo ......................................................................................................15
Pre-flight checks....................................................................................................................................15
Rescue Deployment................................................................................................................................15
Storage/Pockets.....................................................................................................................................16
Landing with the Gingo.......................................................................................................................... 16
5. Miscellaneous..................................................................................................................17
Towing...................................................................................................................................................17
Tandem flying........................................................................................................................................17
Flying over water...................................................................................................................................17
6. Care, Maintenance and Repairs........................................................................................17
Care and Maintenance............................................................................................................................17
Inspection checklist.........................................................................................................................18
Repairs...................................................................................................................................................18
7. Technical Data.................................................................................................................19
Specification .........................................................................................................................................19
Certification...........................................................................................................................................19
Gingo harness.................................................................................................................................. 19
GINSOFT II back protection...............................................................................................................19
Description ............................................................................................................................................20
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1. Gin Gliders
Gin Gliders was formed in 1998 by paraglider designer and competition pilot Gin Seok Song and
his team of engineers and test pilots.
Gin’s philosophy is simple: to design paragliding equipment that he and any other pilot love to
fly. This philosophy applies equally for a harness such as the Gingo, as for the world-beating
competition glider, the Boomerang. No product is released to the market without Gin’s complete
satisfaction. GIN Gliders produce a complete range of accessories and can provide you with
many useful items for flying which are all manufactured in GIN Gliders own production facility
to guarantee highest quality standards.
Gin has over 15 years’ experience of designing and manufacturing paragliders and is backed up
by an equally experienced team, both within the company in Korea and throughout a worldwide
network of distributors and dealers. The “GIN Team” has won the Paragliding World Cup overall
several times and has had countless other competition successes in World Cups, World and
National Championships. This high level of expertise provided by dedicated professionals
ensures that you get the best possible product support and after sales service.
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2. Introducing the Gingo
The Gingo was developed by the R&D team of Gin Gliders to meet the highest standards of the
most demanding pilots - the Gingo is the harness used by GIN test pilots during the
development of new paragliders. The Gingo is suitable for a wide range of pilots, for the
beginner as well as for the occasional club pilot or even the dedicated cross country pilot.
The Gingo can be flown with all types of paragliders unless the manufacturer of your paraglider
requires a specific harness to be used with his paraglider. Please refer to the manual of your
paraglider to find out if this might be the case. The Gingo is a sleek and easy harness, designed
for maximum comfort and ease of use. The elegant design focuses on simplicity, elim inating the
need for complicated adjustments.
The overall geometry of the harness enables the pilot to feel the feedback from the glider
sensitively, whilst retaining a secure feeling in flight. This increases the precision of turns
while thermaling and aids active flying. On long flights, the comfort of the Gingo is second to
none.
Leg and chest straps are equipped with the “T-lock safety system” to prevent the pilot from
falling out of the harness if he forgets to fasten the leg straps.
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The safety has also been improved by optimising the position of the back protection; the rear
pocket has been moved upwards, offering protection for the pilot in case he accidentally falls on
his back.
The bottom rescue container is designed to enable a fast and easy deployment of t he parachute.
The bottom position is ideal because the weight of the rescue st ays near the centre of gravity
and therefore provides you with the most balanced comfort and feeling in flight.
The new elastic speed bar retainer prevents the bridle of your rescue becoming entangled in
case of a rescue deployment.
Features of the Gingo:
Rescue attachment bridle
Carabiners
Optional back and lateral protection
Large dorsal storage pocket and numerous small pockets for long flights
The Gingo is DHV certified and available in sizes S, M and L.
Weight: 4.4 Kg (M size without back protection).
Weight of back protection GINSOFT II: 0,9 Kg.
Optional Extras
The following items are available as optional extras.
Back protection
The Gingo is equipped with an optional GINSOFT II soft back protector with 17 cm thickness. A
hard foam layer to protect the GINSOFT II against punctures is integrated into the Gingo
harness. The back protector is divided into separate compartments, to prevent air being
dissipated too rapidly in the event of a hard impact.
The GINSOFT II is designed to protect the pilot in case of an impact and to reduce the energy of
the impact as much as possible, but it cannot completely eliminate the risk of injury. The
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GINSOFT II back protection is DHV certified and free compatible, which means it can be used with
any harness with a large enough container for the back protection.
The GINSOFT II protector is the lightest soft foam protector with DHV certification.
Lateral protection
You can add lateral protection to the Gingo, as well as back protection, by fitting a pair of Gin
side impact plates.
Rescue parachute
The Gingo is designed for use with GIN rescue parachutes, like the ONE G. Other manufacturers’
rescue systems may also be used. Every first installation of a rescue system into the harness
(that means every new combination of harness and rescue system) must be checked by a
qualified paragliding professional. This is called a "compatibility check". In this compatibility
check the pilot himself, who will be flying with this harness, must always sit in the harness
hanging from a simulator and deploy the rescue from the harness container. This check must
also be done each time after the rescue has been repacked and re-installed.
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