Urubu Mk2 Advancedpilot
After 6 years of existence, the Urubu Legacy is moving onto a new era with the Mk2 version: A real LittleCloud glider benefiting of our latest modern technologies!
Design: An Evolution with R!
Renewing such a nice glider wasn’t an easy task!
The challenge was high: how to propose an improved performance and keeping the proven qualities of the original Urubu?
The Urubu is our favourite R&D class, it therefore benefits from all our acknowledge and experience.
The uncountable testing hours made sure the Mk2 matches our expectations and were just giving us a good excuse to play in the sky!
The result is an absolutely joy !
We kept the same base for this Evolution. 57 cells construction is the best compromise we find between, performance, weight/compacity, safety and LittleCloudness !
The Aspect Ratio remains identical with 6.15: this helps keeping a good accessibility and a genuine LittleCloud handling, the performance enhancement has been achieved with other ways.
Smart design- no unneeded features, simplicity at its apex!
- New airfoil with very high stability, even accelerated, and incredible glide feeling!
- New skin tension optimized for better efficiency and a better collapsing spreading limitation
- Nylon Rods dimension optimised; we use a blend of different rod’s lengths on the canopy.
- Mini-Ribs.
- Top in 20D- Bottom in 10D- and internal structure mixing 27 and 32gr fabric to ensure lightness, compacity and durability.
- Unparalleled energy self-management.
- New lines arrangement for a better load spreading on the canopy to increase stability and balance and line consumption reduction, better than the 2.5 liner configuration of our competitors.
- New super low drag brake tabs.
- 3 liners for a better reliability, hassle-free ease of use in any conditions and lines stability over the time.
- Incredible canopy balance.
- Skin tension
- Great peace of mind for more fun, 100% HappyFlying !
- Kiterisers compatible.
LittleCloudness: We make toys for fly, not tool!
Enhancing the performance is one thing, keeping the “LittleCloudness” is a priority😊
The handling of the Urubu Mk2 is simply incredible, sharp, precise, playful!
This is a very important feature for us as turning is part of the game! Better enjoy that part!
The Glider is superbly balanced, reacting instantly to the pilot order inspiring for improving.
The Pitch stability is of course here, like no other brand has been able to reach until now:
– easy take off even in strong wind
– easier and more relax to fly in active air
– less flying incident’s consequences
– improved efficiency in mushy air.
Comfort in turbulence is pretty high, but as always, we kept a talky glider to allow the pilot to fully understand the air he’s flying in! A very important safety feature!
Which also helps in light condition to better snif lifting air!
Large brake travel before stall for more forgiving over piloting!
The Glider will only surprise you with its ease of use and its top-notch flying behaviour, giving you the opportunity to safely enjoy new flying experiences and adventures.
From hiking and fly in your favourite mountain to flat land flying, the Urubu Mk2 will deliver all you need to fly far, high with a lot of serenity and fun!
The only thing that is not included in the package is transportation to get you back home!
Target:
The Urubu Mk2 is aimed at pilots looking for a performant, light weight and versatile glider.
For cross country and hike and fly use:
the pilot should be able to deal with flying situations, making a proper analysis of the conditions, having good ground handling skills.
This would be “EN C pilots” in terms of piloting demandness (according to the EN C Class pilot requirement definition).
For Soaring use :
the pilot should be able to control his glider in any wind conditions, being aware of the brake travel, being able to control de dynamic movements whilst wingover, sharp turns.
Kiterisers Compatibility :
Urubu Mk2 is 100% compatible with our Kiterisers system for soaring.
Kiterisers bring new sensations, improve accelerated flying understanding, an easy retrofit that you can change anytime.
LittleCloud risers :
Since 2012, we introduce a Y risers that can be connected to each other with a clip.
The purpose of this design was to simplify its handling, reduce the possibility of over pulling the “A” during inflation and being able to connect to your wing with the glider still unpacked for those windy days.
Thanks to their compacity, they are a piece of cake to prepare, untangled and connect to the harness.
They come with speed system, trimmers, both depending on the glider.
For the trimmers version, this Y shape allow an easier manipulation of the trims, as they are set up higher.
They are made of 12mm Kevlar webbing, light and ultra resistant!
The brake handles are held in place by raised magnets, making them easy to clean.
Accessibility
Passive safety
Performance
Robustness
Hike & Fly
Xc Capacity
Soaring
Fun
TISSU
Top : Dominico 20D
Bottom : Dominico 10D
STRUCTURE
Porcher 25/32gr hard finish
LINES
Full Dyneema – DC de Lyros
RISERS
With speedbar and hand rest Tbar.
FABRICATION
construite avec passion au Sri Lanka !
Q/A :
Our prices are lower than most of our competitors, does that mean the gliders are lower quality?
As you can see, our prices are lower than our competitors!
It’s definitely not a question of materials: fabric, lines, webbing, thread, maillons… all we use to produce our gliders are from the best suppliers on the market!
We don’t make any saving on that!
The factory we cooperate with have some of the highest quality standards!
Quality controls occur all along the process to detect any defect as soon as possible.
Our service is at top level, we have a 24h email respond policy, our aftersales service take care of all the problems you guys are facing…
The lack of certification is one reason, but not the main. The average cost of certification is less than 150€ per glider on its lifetime.
One of the most important saving happen with the design itself!
We do work very hard to keep designs simples, we don’t run for the easiest way by adding special features to solve problem as a patch! We deeply investigate and solve it at its root!
No gimmick means less production costs, more reliability, more precision.
We run the company very efficiently, focusing on the most important things!
We also don’t exaggerate our pricing and offer mega discount after, we believe this is very unfair and very disrespectful for our customers and our gliders!
Certification ?
The Urubu Mk2 is not EN certified. Only the EN 926-1 load test has been achieved.
The Non certification in flight is a deliberate choice of LittleCloud.
We think this EN certification is not a guarantee of safety for the pilot. In no case does this certification protect the pilot from flying incidents/accidents.
These EN Tests are done in calm air with initiated manoeuvres which do not show the behaviours of gliders in real life: modern gliders are very collapse resistant and their behaviour after a flying incident in a rowdy air mass is very far from what EN tests are showing.
We test our gliders in real life for hours and hours in order to evaluate their real capabilities and behaviours.
We take full responsibility to offer impeccable glider’s behaviours and advise you as honestly as possible on the skills required for their use.
Flying remains an aeronautical activity, the gravity factor is the same as any aircraft.
Only the pilot, his decisions (weather, gear, flying routes), and his margins can guarantee a maximum safety.
Why not a 2-liner?
We believe that for this class of glider, a 3-liner is a better choice.
The performance gain of a 2-liner for this kind of aspect ratio is not worthing the loss of ease of use and the extra care you need to provide to your equipment.
The little extra performance of a 2-liner is only valid is you keep your glider in accurate trim all the time!
On top, we did notice during our development that you lose a lot of playfulness with a 2-liner setup.
LittleCloud is providing toys and not tools for flying, so we choose 3-liner setup!
Why not 2.5-liner?
2.5 liners are in our eyes the worse compromise of both world!
The reduction of line support on the tip increases risk of cravat, because of the larger gap between lines row.
On our tests, the homogeneity of the 2.5-liner configuration wasn’t at the level of our 3-liner one.
To finish with, our 3-lines setup is actually consuming less meter of lines than our competitors 2/2.5-liners.
Why Nylon rods over Nitinol?
The use of nitinol is requiring a lot more attention to reinforcements at this is a very nervous material, which stresses restlessly the fabric!
This means the weight you save on one side will be lost on the other.
Packing isn’t an issue either with nylon rods, because we use a small amount of long ones.
Why no B to C bridging?
Marketing saying you need a B to C to pilot your 3-liner like a 2-liner is a marketing scam!
With or without, you always deform your airfoil (it’s a question of B/C riser movement VS B/C tabs position/distance-Pure geometry)!
This is not an issue if your airfoil is designed to work with just C inputs!
The pressure you need to apply to move the B when you pull on the C is huge, this means you lose a lot of precision, a lot of reaction time and it’s tiring!
If you want a 2-liner feeling, fly a 2-liner!
So with direct control on the Cs only, you are faster to react, your inputs are more precise, it’s less tiring and the risers set up is “simpler”. On top, this allows you to play with C stalls to go down!
Why don’t we speak about passive safety?
Passive safety is a very vague concept !
We can help the forgiveness of the glider in having a large tolerance to the stall (large brake travel, strong force required to stall the wing…), a strong pitch stability to prevent the glider to shoot too far (with a limit of course), a neutral glider that do instantly what the pilot is asking for.
But we can’t build/design gliders that will correct/avoid all the time pilot mistakes in inappropriate air masses.
Warning :
As a paragliding manufacturer, we are working hard to push our product development to maximize safety!
Over the years, research has brought significant improvements!
But this is only a benefit to the pilots if they are not using this extra gain to push the limits further!
The past years, we clearly see a trivialization of flying stronger and stronger conditions, stronger and stronger winds.
As great improvements are made on the gliders, they won’t change the reality of the physics!
The best safety will remain your decisions! Improve your skills, improve your judgment on your capacities to understand where you are flying will help improve your decisions!
