This is a rough impression of the comparison of Phi Maestro 22 vs. Advance Sigma 10 27
I flew the Maestro 22 with a Exoceat Harness and 99kg weight (normal weightrange ist 83-103 kg), this was one of the first tester which has still the 175mm Accelerator travel. According to Testpilot Benni there is also a certified version with 200mm Accelerator travel which he will provide soon. So maybe 2 km/h more topspeed to come.
The weightrange of the sigma is 97kg-110kg and he flew it with something about 105kg and X-Rated 7 harness.
Genereal / first impression:
- Very little, thin, lines, interesting lineconcept with only 2 Lines per Layer per Side (only A1, A2; B1 B2, ...)
- Once in the air you see the very clean canopy
- The breaklines are allready in the perfect length (so many companies deliver the glider with a in my opinion way to long breaklines)
- the trailing edge of the canopy is perfectly straight, even if the breaklines is almost on tension (many glider need a huge empty travel of the breaklines, that its all the way on the hole canopy perfectly straight at the end)
- The Glider has kind of little quarter Rips at the leading edge to reinforce the profil on the front part (see video at the end)
- The manufacure took quite some care to design the glider so, that there are not many wrinculs and the balloning is little at the important part (quarter rips at leading- and trailing edge (+special U-Shape surface )
Flying:
- The handling feelings direct, but not crazy agil. It feels more like a XC / Thermal wing then a freestyle wing, but I couldn’t notice any bad behavior so far (only soaring / smooth thermals). Its for sure also because the exoceat is very stable.
- The wing looks/feels quite compact, it has no crazy high aspect ratio.
- The glide performance and speed is impressive so far (see video).
- Big Ears with the outer A´s works fine and effective, no crazy shaking / flapping and easy reopening.
- You can stear small turbulences in full speed with the C´s
- So far stable in full speed in smooth conditions.
- Good Stallpoint indication
- Nice stallingbehavior
Compared to Sigma 10:
- My Impression is, that its for sure not worse in glide
- Maestro is maybe 2-3kmh slower, maybe with the other risers and more accelerator travel this could be equal
Negative things:
-stupid magnetclips on the brakehandles which falls off
-I personally dont like the design
I want to stress again, that this is only a rough first impression. The results can differ in thermal conditions from the one in the Video.
19 фев 2019
