Powrachute Standard Feature vs. the Industry Alternatives

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FRONTAL FUSELAGE BARS

POWRACHUTE: (Industry First): Benefit to the customers is structural- roll over protection- helps keep pilot and students head unexposed. This feature also provides forward impact resistances.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Now standard by some manufacturers.

4130 CHROMOLLY BASE MAIN FRAME NOSE WHEEL TO FAN GUARD RING

POWRACHUTE: (Exclusive Design Feature) First and only manufacturer to run Chromolly tubing the entire length of the frame IT.

JUST MAKES SENSE. This feature like the frontal bars adds more structural integrity to the design. The vast majority of the weight, vibration, and landing impact are absorbed on the rear of any PPC. Running the Chromolly from the nose to the fan guarding ring also helps prevent prop strikes. Hard landings on most PPC’s will drive the aluminum fan guard arms into the prop if the fan guard hits the ground. POWRACHUTE is the only design that mounts every engine support tubes attachment point to the Chromolly main frame.

1. This protects your prop from strikes on hard landings.
2. Preserves your fan guard ring.
3. Gives your engine mount support a sturdy place to mount.
4. Saves you money.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Aluminum engine and fan guard support tubes, more flex in hard landings equal more props to replace. ($450.00 to $700.00) each bad landing, which translates into more down time.

ELEVATED FRAME AND FAN GUARD

POWRACHUTE: Helps save rear end damage, prop strikes, grass stains on prop from less than fresh cut fields.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: If the fan guard is too low to the ground you could experience undesirable cost and down time replacing pieces to fan guard, engine support tubes and propeller.

GROUND STEERING AND TOWING BAR

POWRACHUTE: (Exclusive Design Feature) This standard feature uncomplicates the typical nose wheel steering and doubles as a convenient tow bar. This feature is also equipped with self-centering springs (Industry first) insuring your nose wheel is straight on landing.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Pushing your machine around from rear by the prop which can be hazardous- no self-centering devices offered. Make sure you don’t land with the nose wheel in turned position.

TRUE ONE PIECE A-FRAME

POWRACHUTE: (Exclusive Design Feature) True suspension system with the most structurally sound hydraulic shock suspension in the PPC industry. “Reference Article at www.Aero-News.Net search Arlington EAA 2000.”

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Mid 90’s technology- Bouncy embarrassing landings with fiberglass spring suspension, cracked spring rods from hard landings and more down time.

ODYSSEY DRY CELL BATTERY AND 12 VOLT POWER SOURCE

POWRACHUTE: (Exclusive Design Feature) The highest quality dry powder battery available. No chance of acid spill to you or your chute. Powder coated battery mount standard feature. Plug in power source same as automobiles. Easy to plug in cell phone, GPS, CD Player, etc. This allows you to broaden your horizons and insures you of reliable power sources.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Making sure your batteries are charged! Alternatives being acid or gel cell batteries, which are susceptible to spill damage.

CERAMIC CHROME EXHAUST

POWRACHUTE: Rust resistant-Long Muffler Life-Pleasing eye appeal.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Black Muffler-discoloration after only a few hours, shorter life span.

IN HOUSE STATE OF THE ART POWDER COATING

POWRACHUTE: (Only company to powder coat all parts in house) Advantages:

1. Quality Control

2. Rapid delivery of powdered parts.

3. All parts are sand blasted and then prepared in our state of the art dip tanks to insure maximum quality.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Long waits and no quality control because parts are shipped off to be powder coated. Parts are not sanded or blasted for maximum adhesion of powder coat, chipping and flaking can occur without proper preparation of materials.

PRECISION WHEEL BEARINGS

POWRACHUTE: Longer life span, less drag, less down time. (No wheelbarrow bearings)

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Basic low cost bearings that wear out quite frequently.

MAXIMUM USE OF 6061-T6 ALUMINUM SADDLES

POWRACHUTE: This was an easy decision in our design. This is a must for the longevity of the design to insure no wear on bolt holes from vibration and stress.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Tubing against tubing or channel brackets against tubing allows for little support for bolt holes. Over time this will cause the hole to oval and degrade its integrity. Also plastic saddles will eventually crack from stress and age.

EXTENSIVE USE OF MACHINED RECESSED SADDLES:

POWRACHUTE: There is 1/16 of an inch recess in the saddles where fan guard arms join at the ring, this allows for a clean strong attachment to the ring with no gaps.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Recessed saddles are not available in any other make. Gapped joints are not as strong. Another less desirable alternative would be tubing against tubing, because of the vibration of the engine alone.

MAXIMUM USE OF EXTRUDED FORMED BRACKETS, STAINLESS STEEL CHANNEL BRACKETS, AND FLAT PLATE CONNECTIONS

POWRACHUTE: This more expensive to do, but adds to your safety, structural strength of the machine and over all resale value when you decide to sell and upgrade to a newer model. In addition, with the formed brackets there is less bolts, less preflight and less to go wrong.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: More aluminum channel brackets, plates, bolts, nuts, washers, more to preflight, more to go wrong. In addition, you don’t have near the strength with the aluminum channel brackets and plates.

MAXIMUM USE OF POLYMER REINFORCING PLUGS

POWRACHUTE: This is more expensive to do but adds to the structural integrity of your aircraft and to your safety. Not only are the ends plugged but also other points deep in the tubing itself.

An example of this is the point where the axle bolts go through the axle support tubes.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: All manufacturers use plugs but few use them in every piece of tubing.

KIT BUILD OR PREFABRICATED UNITS?

POWRACHUTE: Each part is built in a reliable reproducing jig to insure no downtime in the event of damage to any part of the machine. Almost all parts are pre-nailed, fitted, etc…This means anyone with a set of wrenches can order and replace a part in no time to get back in the air again. Powrachute now offers kit or factory built units.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Machines that are not manufactured in jigs, but are built by hand, makes it extremely hard for the average person to make the replacement part fit, look and work the same as the original. In fact, (with most factory built manufacturers), if the damage is serious enough, you have no alternative but to send your machine back to the manufacturer for reconstruction. How costly would that be? How time consuming? How much freight?

SLING SEATING

POWRACHUTE: Powrachute chose sling seating because of its universal comfort for all sizes and shapes of people. Just look at the popularity of the collapsible sling seats you see at events all over the country.

Existing Industry Alternatives: Bucket Seating- Are molded seats therefore only fitting comfortably those who fit the mold in addition bucket seats can add as much as 70lbs to the weight of the craft.

NYLON WEBBING RISERS

POWRACHUTE: This standard feature offers 6000lbs of strength per riser, which helps absorb the load in turbulent air and is much simper to pre-flight. It also stretches and absorbs shock to chute, which in turn gives longer chute life. In addition, it eliminates scratching of the airframe.

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Existing Industry Alternative: You have less strength- bumpy ride in turbulent air and they will scratch up your investment. Braided stainless cables cannot be pre-flighted inside the braid.

QUICK CONNECT WIRING HARNESS

POWRACHUTE: Your engine information system is mounted in the pod with the wiring harness already attached; all you have to do is plug your probes in the appropriate place.

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Existing Industry Alternative: Do it all yourself. You must have a lot of patience and knowledge of electronic wiring.

ADJUSTABLE SEAT WITH STORAGE UNDERNEATH

POWRACHUTE: The center section of your seat can easily be removed and turned to gained more or less leg room, and will not allow you to unintentionally over compensate your CG adjustment.

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Existing Industry Alternative: No seat adjustment at all or a seat that could unintentionally be adjusted too far forward or back changing the attitude of the craft to an undesirable position.

STANDARD TIRES

POWRACHUTE: Powrachute offers the AZUSA tire and wheel as standard; this has been proven to create less drag when pushing or pulling your Powrachute. In addition, in the event your cart should tip during take-off roll, these tires will not bite into thee ground as much as a large Knobby tire, which increases your chance of roll over.

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Existing Industry Alternatives: Knobby tires can bite into the ground on take-off and landing which can increase the chance of roll over should your cart tip. Knobby tires on PPC increase drag load when you are pushing your machine around.

The finished product of a Powrachute is unmatched, nothing comes close. Just put a Powrachute side by side with another brand and decide for yourself.