8.26 / 10

ParAAvis Fun: More Than Joy

Joy is a pretty self-explanatory paraglider name. Fun... It's kind of close, but different. A joke. Sometimes a provocation. It's about the difference between ParAAvis Fun and ParAAvis Joy wings.
📅 2023-07-15
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You'd think, why bother? ParAAvis' first Joy (an after school intermediate) was very successful. The second one wasn't bad. The third one was again an outright success. What is the point of creating competition to themselves, throwing in the already overpopulated niche of after-school intermediates another "hot bash" ...? Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Because Fun bears little resemblance to Joy. The only thing it has in common is the joy of flying.

Construction

9 / 10

Risers

9 / 10


Lines

9 / 10

Canopy

9 / 10


Build quality

9 / 10

Surface smoothness

9 / 10

Takeoff and groundhandling

8 / 10

Groundhandling

8 / 10

Takeoff

8 / 10


Flight

8.39 / 10


Glide

9 / 10

Accelerated flight

8 / 10

Speed gain

8 / 10

Speed system effort

8 / 10

Speed system travel

8 / 10

Soaring and sink rate

8 / 10

Sink rate in straight flight

8 / 10

Sink rate in spiral

8 / 10

Turn ability

8.33 / 10

Brakes efficiency

9 / 10

Weight shift efficiency

8 / 10

Rear risers control

8 / 10

Comfort and feedback

8 / 10

Comfort

7 / 10

Feedback

9 / 10

Dynamics and energy retention

9 / 10

Dynamics

9 / 10

Energy retention

9 / 10

Dangerous flight regimes

7.17 / 10

Asymmetric collapse

7.5 / 10

Frontal collapse

7 / 10

Spin out of thermal spiral

7 / 10


Quick descent techniques

8.75 / 10

Ears

8.5 / 10

Stability

9 / 10

Sink rate

8 / 10

Deep spiral

9 / 10


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