Navigator

Configure your sail ICI

Performance for beginners!

How did P-D do it?
La Navigator est un concept totalement nouveau.  P-D a échangé des éléments de leurs expérience

in sail development, from tandem design to sail research

high performance. The result is a new breed of sail designed to meet

simultaneously the needs of beginners and DZs.

Make it easy to open and install:
Beginners need a sail that gives them immediate information on the opening.

(no furling sail), but not one that opens wide. The Navigator's openings are made for

offer this type of feature with either a spring-loaded or HD extractor. They also

need a glider that avoids classic landing mistakes such as braking too early.

With these points in mind, P-D has designed forgiving pose features for the Navigator.

Wing loading and sail response:
The Navigator is available in sizes from 200 sq. ft. to 280 sq. ft. in 20 ft² increments. The Navigator

responds better to the beginner's gestures than older concepts with the same load, enabling the

feedback during the flight. This improved feedback makes it possible to

the beginner to immediately understand the effects of these actions on sail control.

This speeds up the beginner's learning curve without the need to give him or her a larger sail.

small. This feature allows learning to take place at different speeds

used by the beginner.

Longevity:
DZs want solid, long-lasting school sails. The Navigator is made with

identical reinforcements to our tandem sails, no school sail is stronger. What's more, we have

combined our 2 fabrics, P0 (extrados) and low-porosity (intrados), which makes folding easier all round.

with laying characteristics well above those of low-porosity sails.

The result:
The Navigator is the school sail. It offers a combination of performance, forgiveness and longevity with

the possibility of raising the level of pilot training.