{"id":1487,"date":"2014-11-21T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ulrichard.ch\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-11-21T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:23:01","slug":"back-to-mac-nothing-to-do-with-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Back to Mac (nothing to do with Apples)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I stopped flying in competitions<\/a>, I also slowly stopped flying competition gliders. So I went back to my old and proven sports class glider. I meant to replace it for a long time. But as my Gradient Aspen 1 is by now more than eleven years old, there really were no more excuses.<\/p>\n

So, I took the time to test new gliders. The first one I tried was the successor, the Aspen 5<\/a>. It felt familiar and comfortable. They also have some good results in sports class competitions. So I almost bought one.<\/p>\n

But I wanted to try at least one other model. The most obvious was to see what Mac Para has to offer. After all most of my competition gliders were from MacPara<\/a>, and I still consider the Magus 4<\/a> the best glider I ever flew. The description of the Marvel<\/a> sounded good, but the model is more than two years old. So I asked if the successor is imminent. Most paragliding companies don’t announce the new models in advance, as they still want to sell the old one. I still expect a successor next spring the latest. That is probably the reason why I got such a good deal for the demo glider. Since I don’t fly cross country as much as I would like to these days, I don’t need the latest and greatest. Instead a glider that I am comfortable with, and that lasts for another decade. Ah and there is another factor. I still like the design of the MacPara gliders. When I was collecting information on the Mac Para switzerland<\/a> webpage, I was pleasantly surprised to see a picture of myself and my Magus 4<\/a> over the pre pyrenees at the 2006 pre World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n
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After I stopped flying in competitions, I also slowly stopped flying competition gliders. So I went back to my old and proven sports class glider. I meant to replace it for a long time. But as my Gradient Aspen 1 is by now more than eleven years old, there really were no more excuses. So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragliding","category-uncategorized","tag-macpara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ulrichard.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}