I have been meaning to post this for a while so here we go. A couple of weeks ago we got a few inches of snow. It was early like 6am. The sun wasn't
even up yet. Anyways I am walking around my house look outside and think there is just enough snow so I load up everything in the truck and head to a
field close to the house. I thought I grabbed some thindulated gloves. Well turns out I grabbed a pair of mechanics gloves. Mistake I will get to
later anyways on to the kiting. I set up the kite winds are ripping 20 gusting to 25. I use this kite to buggy in 10 to 15 but anyways. Preflight
jitters so I strap the board on and grab the bar launching the kite. I could not believe how fun it was I didn't go far or anything just went a couple
hundred feet and fell over but man I had moved. So I get up and head back the other way. Mind you my Flow is on a bar and it was flying so well. I
ended up hot launching the kite straight down wind during a gust. I got a nice little hop out of that. I can't believe that the kite was doing as well
as it was in the turbulant conditions. Well as it turned out the mechnics gloves were not water proof so I had to call it quits after my hands got so
cold I couldn't feel tham about an hour or so. I may not have went far in my little venture but I can't wait till next year to try again. So even
though my flow isn't a depower it worked really well for my noob snowkiteing experiance.herc - 26-2-2012 at 01:58 PM
but you can easily modify it to a depower kite ! because it has only two line rows !
i have recently aquired a 5sqm flow exactly for that purpose: make it a depower kite for high wind. first need to get cheap pulleys / rings and some
thin kite bridle lines though... (1:2 setup using a single pulley per sid is probably suboptimal, better would be 1:4 with two pulleys per side)
the flow indeed has a nice, autostable profile: pyro22487 - 26-2-2012 at 08:24 PM
I heard you can do that to the flow but man I think it was sweet using it just how it was. It flew great and I had fun. But that is good to know that
it can be done.
