You of all people would appreciate my experience using short lines with NSs. I know you use 5m lines a lot, I think exclusively hand held, isn't that
right? I had bought a 7m three line set from Steffen last year. I wanted to hook into my harness so I jury rigged a line (white line in the video)
between the spot in the center of the rigging when the lines come together above the bar down through the bar and clipping into my leash strap. This
way if I pulled the rip cord on the chicken loop I would flag out on the center line. I tied into the loop that went through that funny little
wave-shaped plastic slider Steffen puts there. One problem I had was that I had used a somewhat heavy clip at the other end of my safety line and it
would tug on the loop drawing line up through it over time. The way this little wave-shaped thingy is constructed it holds the line from going out
the other way so it would sort of synch up the middle line after a while. I think I'll do away with the little wave-shaped thing and get a lighter
clasp.
This was the first time I'd ever flown my Stars with a setup like this. As you would appreciate I found those short lines sort of funky. Much more
likely to experience backflying and backstalling if the wind wasn't blowing hard for the kite size. Also, the wind window is vastly diminished making
it much harder to maneuver the kite through the window in attempts to depower the pull. With 10m of FB love in the air with that diminished window I
was pretty much at the mercy of the wind when it picked up. Not shown was the other two times I crashed into that same snowbank! Moving forward I
want a bigger area to work in so I can use longer lines. |
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