The Summit XC: UP’s new Intermediate is the perfect example of a wing combining great passive safety with total flying pleasure. Thanks to the new Hybrid Synergy Profile the Summit XC has superior performance but also the safety of a true intermediate wing. This makes the Summit XC the right choice for an unusually large pilot group – in fact, pilots coming from almost all glider classes will have fun on a Summit XC.
Your everyday wing is a DHV1-2 but you are beginning to feel like getting a bit more of everything. You want to develop, go further, higher, but you are unsure if the time is ripe for a DHV 2 wing? This wing was made for you! Performance has never been so easy to handle!
You have been flying for ages, flown gliders in all the different classes and yet somehow you seem to have forgotten how FUN paragliding can be, how broadly you used to smile when you landed? The Summit XC will teach you all that again, and more – it'll put the FUN back into flying, and let you get some distance under your belt.
You are already a DHV 2 pilot, on the prowl for a new Performance Monster? The Summit XC combines the best of both worlds – performance and passive safety – and is your first choice if you're after more performance in your usual class.
The Summit XC's big brother is the UP Trango 3. This wing has already found scores of followers all over the world, due to the excellent combination of very high performance and very good passive safety. These pilots know that this is what it takes to feel good about flying; a safe feeling combined with sufficient performance – and this is exactly what the Summit XC has inherited from the Trango 3.
UP has managed to take these characteristics and build them into the new LTF 2 wing. This is a wing that will transmit a good feeling right from the moment you launch. The canopy is clean and solid, collapses are, if they even happen, unspectacular events and the wing already fulfils the criteria for the new LTF 2008 norms. All this with performance figures that are comparable to wings in a higher class than this... These characteristics make the Summit XC the perfect allround flying machine, appealing to pilots of quasi all levels; the up-and-coming performance pilot, the Weekend Warrior, the XC ace, even pilots stepping down from the higher classes. Due to the high inherent safety this is also the perfect wing to for pilots stepping up from a 1-2 wing.
SIZE |
S |
SM |
M |
L |
FLAT AREA (m2) |
26,0 |
27,7 |
29,0 |
31,8 |
PROJECTED AREA (m2) |
21,8 |
23,2 |
24,5 |
26,7 |
FLAT SPAN (m) |
12,4 |
12,8 |
13,1 |
13,7 |
PROJECTED SPAN (m) |
9,5 |
9,8 |
10,0 |
10,5 |
FLAT ASPECT RATIO |
5,95 |
5,95 |
5,95 |
5,95 |
PROJECTED ASPECT RATIO |
4,12 |
4,12 |
4,12 |
4,12 |
NUMBERS OF CHAMBERS |
62 |
62 |
62 |
62 |
WEIGHT (kg) |
6,1 |
6,4 |
6,7 |
7,3 |
LTF CATEGORY |
2 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
Vtrim/Vmax (km/h)≥ |
38/52 |
38/52 |
38/52 |
38/52 |
DHV TAKEOFF WEIGHT (kg) |
65-85 |
75-95 |
85-105 |
100-125 |
DESCRIPTION: PERFORMANCE INTERMEDIATE |
