Favourite paragliders
Of the approximately 1,500 readers of the previous post, 217 completed a survey about the most liked wings. The results are quite poor because it’s a small sample. Here is what I was able to extract from the gathered data
And the data is: 897 votes for 557 different models of 67 different brands. One guy rated 41 different models (he liked the UP Trango X-Race the most [9/10] and the Sky Atis the least [2/10]), but an average was 4.2 rated wings per person.
Only 24 models got at least 5 votes each, so that it makes sense (although questionable) to average the score:
| # | Wing | Votes | Average rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ozone Enzo 3 | 14 |
9,36
|
| 2 | Ozone Rush 6 | 6 |
9,20
|
| 3 | Ozone Delta 4 | 7 |
9,14
|
| 4 | Ozone Zeno 2 | 13 |
9,00
|
| 5 | Advance Sigma 6 | 5 |
9,00
|
| 6 | Ozone Zeolite GT | 5 |
8,60
|
| 7 | Ozone Delta 2 | 11 |
8,55
|
| 8 | Niviuk Artik 6 | 6 |
8,50
|
| 9 | Gin Explorer | 5 |
8,40
|
| 10 | Nova Mentor 4 | 5 |
8,20
|
| 11 | TripleSeven Queen 2 | 12 |
8,08
|
| 12 | Dudek Nemo 4 | 5 |
8,00
|
| 13 | Ozone Zeno | 13 |
7,92
|
| 14 | Niviuk Hook 3 | 5 |
7,80
|
| 15 | TripleSeven Rook 2 | 5 |
7,80
|
| 16 | Advance Sigma 10 | 9 |
7,67
|
| 17 | Ozone Rush 4 | 7 |
7,57
|
| 18 | Phi Maestro | 6 |
7,50
|
| 19 | Advance Sigma 7 | 5 |
7,00
|
| 20 | Axis Vega 2 | 5 |
6,80
|
| 21 | Ozone Rush 3 | 5 |
6,80
|
| 22 | Dudek Optic | 5 |
6,60
|
| 23 | Ozone Mantra M6 | 5 |
6,60
|
| 24 | Dudek Vox | 6 |
5,00
|
A dozen brands collected more than 25 ratings each:
| # | Brand | Votes | Average rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phi | 26 |
8,19
|
| 2 | Ozone | 167 |
8,16
|
| 3 | Niviuk | 47 |
8,13
|
| 4 | Advance | 53 |
7,92
|
| 5 | Nova | 56 |
7,77
|
| 6 | TripleSeven | 30 |
7,67
|
| 7 | Gin | 45 |
7,53
|
| 8 | Gradient | 33 |
7,24
|
| 9 | Dudek | 50 |
6,94
|
| 10 | Skywalk | 38 |
6,87
|
| 11 | UP | 34 |
6,85
|
| 12 | Swing | 35 |
6,63
|
Bonus trivia
To date, around 3,400 paraglider models of 243 different brands have been produced. Around 70 brands are still active on the market.
