The GAIA 3 - your perfect companion for getting started with paragliding
The GAIA 3 is ideal as a first glider and supports you with easy handling, maximum safety and an excellent price-performance ratio. It accompanies you on your way to becoming an experienced pilot with intuitive handling and forgiving flight behavior.
Features
- Safety: The GAIA 3 offers a high level of passive safety and is good-natured in the face of pilot errors.
- Handling: It starts easily and lands safely thanks to its balanced handling.
- Performance: The wing enables long thermal flights, cross-country flying, spot landings and freestyle flight maneuvers.
Target group
The GAIA 3 is ideal for:
- Pilots who want to fly safely and relaxed.
- Hobby pilots looking for a quiet flying experience. All pilots who are looking for a versatile paraglider, whether for thermal flights, spot landings, freestyle or paramotoring.
- With the GAIA 3 you can start your flying career safely and experience many exciting adventures!
- Product number
- 20240234
- Manufacturer
- Sky Paragliders
- Brand
- SKY PARAGLIDERS
- EN
- A
GAIA 3 is a great wing to start your flying career. It is easy to handle, provides maximum safety and remains a fun glider with a vast potential you won't quickly outgrow. An excellent quality/price ratio is one of many features to love the glider.
What are dreamed features of your first wing? Easy to launch and land, very safe, and to pardon the pilot's mistakes. It provides intuitive handling and a great prospect to develop ever-growing piloting skills.
GAIA 3 stands for all that and still offers a bit more. It lets you go for long thermal flights and discover the adventure of cross-country flying. It is an excellent wing to master accurate landing or practise some of the most subtle and finest acro manoeuvres, such as a helicopter.
GAIA 3 is the classical concept of the 4-liner. The four-line design remains a traditional design strategy for several types of gliders, including freestyle and acro wings. It delivers pilots with the optimized distribution of lines on the bottom surface. It provides consistency and safety, resulting in a very smooth pilot experience.
GAIA 3 is reinforced with extended rods, making inflation and take-off easier and more easygoing. The cleaner leading edge improves the glide and headwind penetration performance, whether at trim speed or with the speed system applied. It also caters for improved durability throughout the lifespan of the glider.
Target group:
- Pilots wishing to discover the joy of paragliding with maximum safety.
- Leisure pilots who enjoy flying in a calm state of mind.
- All pilots looking for a versatile wing, as suitable for long thermal flights as for accuracy landing, fine freestyle or paramotoring.
Main features:
- High passive safety
- Effortless inflation and take off
- Well-balanced handling
- Predictable and forgiving behaviour
- Long and progressive brake travel
- 3D cut with laser technology
- Well-proven ram-air pockets on bottom panels
- Leading edge reinforced with rods
- Solid 20 mm risers
- Covered lines with different colours for each row
- Durable fabrics on the whole canopy
| GAIA 3 | S | M | L | XL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat area [m²] | 23.30 | 25.20 | 27.13 | 29.34 |
| Flat span [m] | 10.49 | 10.91 | 11.32 | 11.77 |
| Flat aspect ratio | 4.72 | 4.72 | 4.72 | 4.72 |
| Projected surface [m²] | 20.68 | 22.37 | 24.08 | 26.05 |
| Projected span [m] | 8.32 | 8.65 | 8.98 | 9.33 |
| Projected aspect ratio | 3.35 | 3.35 | 3.35 | 3.35 |
| Number of cells | 38 | 38 | 38 | 38 |
| Weight of the glider [kg] | 4.20 | 4.45 | 4.75 | 5.1 |
| Take-off weight [kg] | 58-82 | 73-97 | 88-112 | 102-130 |
| Certification | EN A/LTF A | EN A/LTF A | EN A/LTF A | EN A/LTF A |
Materials
Canopy
- Panels: DOKDO-30 DMF (WR)
- Leading edge: DOKDO-30 DMF (WR)
- Ribs and diagonals: PORCHER SKYTEX 40 HARD
Lines
- Upper gallery: EDELRID 7850
- Lower lines: EDELRID 7850
- Main brake lines: EDELRID 7850
Risers
- Strap: 20 mm PES 8400N
- Quick links: Peguet 3,5 Delta Inox
- ECO BAG
- T-shirt SKY TEAM. In Sky, a T-shirt gets as much attention as a paraglider. T-shirts are designed, cut, sewn and printed by us, in our manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic. They are made of cotton and bamboo fibres for comfort and durability.
- Compression strap – When you need your glider to stay compressed.
- Skytex patch – For fixing small tears in your wing.
- XXS Windsock – Little help for reading the wind direction on take off.
- Sky Paragliders Sticker – Let people know what team are you on.