LittleCloud Gracchio Mk3

Technical data

*All-up weight

** This wing has passed EN 926-1 load test certification. It has not undergone EN or LTF flight certification, and so does not have these.

*** LittleCloud gives the Pilot Level / Category only as a rough guide to help choosing the right level of wing . This wing does not have EN flight certification.

Colours

Standard colours: Lime, Orange, Pink

Custom colours: Choose your colours and email us the colour reference with your order. Include a screenshot if you can. Full payment required upfront to confirm your order after which it cannot be cancelled.

Package

• Wing
• Simple and light fast packing bag
• Compression strap
• Manual
• Control sheet

Related Products (optional extras)

• Paragliding Backpacks
• Concertina Packing Bags
• Fast Packing Bags
• Speed Systems
• Clothing

Gracchio Mk3: A real LittleCloud glider, unchained your flying!

The Gracchio range is entering its third evolution! Forgiving, Super Fun, incredibly performant for its aspect ratio, the Gracchio Mk3 is the direct Revolution of its predecessor. An identical concept pushed to what the actual technologies allow us to! A super Toy to progress with a lot of fun and safety!

Design

Designing an accessible glider, fun to fly, safe to progress and performant enough to keep up pilot motivation is a challenge! The Gracchio Mk3 will be your best partner for an happy progression! LittleCloud kept the Aspect ratio identical to the previous version with 5.3 and the cell counts at 49 cells, for a perfect accessibility and compacity!
Thanks to its very original airfoil, the Gracchio Mk3 will provide an incredible glide feeling combined with very high stability: It cut through the air like no other B glider on the market! Skin tensions have been rebalanced to offer a smoother ride! Lines remain sheathed except on the uppers.

As a progression wing, the Gracchio Mk3 should be supporting your evolution in the flying world! LittleCloud believe that a progression wing should be supporting your evolution with as less limits and as much fun as possible. The Gracchio Mk3 remains simple to fly with no overreaction, progressivity, easy take off, easy management in windy conditions.

As a real LittleCloud glider, it’ll feature their unmatched pitch stability, direct/instant handling! Instant reactions mean a very fast understanding of pilot actions! Pitch stability makes all the ground handling easier, flying more simple and more peaceful! LittleCloud believe a talky glider is essential for the pilot and its safety to understand the environment he’s flying in! The Gracchio Mk3 clearly indicates the air quality, to help you making good decision on your position and flying timing.

Target

The Gracchio Mk3 is dedicated to pilot in progression. Its multiple size range allows the pilots to choose the best wingload according to their experience, their site, their preference.
Within the low half, it’ll be more adapted to low experience pilots or pilots looking for a maximum float to fly in weak conditions.
On the superior half, the more experienced pilots will love its dynamic.
In both cases, no pilot will feel a lack of speed/wind penetration or handling, the “SuperGlide” feeling will remain incredible!
The MK3 will be the perfect upgrade for the Mk2 pilots who are searching for more performance without being ready or don’t want to move up category!
This would be “EN B pilots” in terms of piloting demandness (according to the EN B Class pilot requirement definition).

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Features

• Smart design- no unneeded features, simplicity at its finest!
• LC inflation: 100% control of the rise, the wing strictly follows the pilot's decision!
• New airfoil with very high stability, even accelerated, and incredible glide feeling!
• Mini-Ribs for full optimization of the glide.
• Special skin tension to limit collapse spreading and improving efficiency.
• New lines arrangement for a better load spreading on the canopy to increase stability and balance.
• Improved line consumption, lower than any 2.5 liner of the market.
• Top and Bottom in 20D- internal structure in Porcher 32gr fabric to ensure compacity and durability.
• Large number of sizes for a perfect weight range choice!
• Unparalleled energy self-management.
• Incredible balance of efficiency and safety
• Great peace of mind for a faster progression and a lot of fun, 100% HappyFlying!

LittleCloud Philosophy & Certification

It all started in 2008… with Tom’s vision of being able to enjoy flying as much as possible, all year long, and with maximum pleasure, LittleCloud was born. Pleasure, it seems, is something that is often lost in flying… because of the never-ending quest for performance and maximum distance. It has become their mission and philosophy at LittleCloud to deny this quest and focus their efforts on creating products for a community of pilots that pursue the pleasure of flight

A while back, LittleCloud chose to opt out of the flight certification game, except for tandem wings.

The Gracchio Mk3 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. LittleCloud 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.
LittleCloud test their gliders in real life for hours and hours in order to evaluate their real capabilities and behaviours. LittleCloud 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.

Find out more here: LittleCloud Philosophy, Certification, Technology and FAQ.

Kiterisers Compatibility

Gracchio Mk3 is 100% compatible with LittleCLoud Kiterisers system for soaring. Kiterisers bring new sensations, improve accelerated flying understanding, an easy retrofit that you can change anytime.

LittleCloud Warning

As a paragliding manufacturer, LittleCloud are working hard to push their 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!
Why? Simply because when they’ll be reached, the consequences will be stronger! The past years, LittleCloud 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!

Materials

FABRIC DOMINICOTEX

• Top and Bottom: Dominicotex 20D
• Porcher 32 et 27 Gr/m2 hard finish

SUSPENSION (LINES)

• Uppers: DC60 lyros
• Mids: 7850 Elderid
• Lowers: 7343 Edelrid

RISERS:SPEEDBAR

• 12cm

The Gracchio Mk3 comes with a speed system on the risers, no trimmers.

The Gracchio Mk3 is equipped with a 3 risers system. The A risers are coloured in blue. Risers are equipped with an accelerator system, and the range is 12cm.

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FAQ

Why not 2.5 liner?

2.5-liner is in LittleCloud 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 LittleCloud tests, the homogeneity of the 2.5-liner configuration wasn’t at the level of their 3-liner one. To finish with, their 3-line setup is actually consuming less meter of lines than their competitors 2.5-liner.

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 volume isn’t an issue either with nylon rods, because LittleCloud use a reduce amount of long ones.

Why no B to C bridging?

Marketing saying you need a B to C to pilot your 3 liners like a 2-liner is a marketing scam! With or without, you always deform your airfoil (it’s a question of B/C riser legs travel VS B/C tabs position/distance-Pure geometry)!
This is not an issue if your airfoil is designed to work with these deformations! 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!

What about passive safety?

Passive safety is a very vague concept! LittleCloud 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 LittleCloud can’t build/design gliders that will correct/avoid all the time pilot mistakes.

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