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weather at nabx

matthewlavin - 14-4-2007 at 11:47 AM

bummer i wasn't there. can you all tell me what the wind was blowing and what size kites you were flying? it'll help me visualize what i was missing.:flaming:

m

ripsessionkites - 14-4-2007 at 01:01 PM

sun, heat, lots of wind starting at ~3pm

kite used was a 3.5m U-turn Butan on 50' lines 80% of the time.

see ya'll next year. : )

Bladerunner - 14-4-2007 at 07:36 PM

Ricardo ?

Something that I'm missing out on is why when I look at pic's I see a lot of P.L. arcs and such out but when I here reports from locals it's all 6's and 3's ???
Is is just that we seem to fly smaller fixed bridle around here and others had larger depower kites ?

deanaoxo - 14-4-2007 at 11:54 PM

i flew my 11, my 9, and my 6 phantom. I want a 7scorpion, but of course they dont' ship them.

Tonight we could have used anything tiny, it was blowing like stink onshore at Ocean Beach.

Elton, the mayor of Ocean Beach was the lone buggier.

aoxo~!

action jackson - 15-4-2007 at 06:03 AM

I flew my 18m g2,15m phantom,15m nasa wing,3m nasa wing and 6m phantom. Never got a chance on .5m nasa wing. Yesterday the winds on galveston were 25-40 and i used the 6m phantom and hit 48mph in yhe pl buggy i won at the raffle. I guess thats a good way to break it in......aj

geokite - 15-4-2007 at 04:43 PM

Out of the 9 days I buggied at the pre-event and Ivanpah, I used my 12m phantom (like a 4-5 meter foil) every day except 2 (Friday at Ivanpah, no wind, and Saturday where the 9m phantom was great; 51mph in a tandem).

Overall, kind of a light wind event.

Steve

ripsessionkites - 15-4-2007 at 09:02 PM

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Originally posted by snowbird
Ricardo ?

Something that I'm missing out on is why when I look at pic's I see a lot of P.L. arcs and such out but when I here reports from locals it's all 6's and 3's ???
Is is just that we seem to fly smaller fixed bridle around here and others had larger depower kites ?


I saw a lot of PL Arcs out there, dunno what sizes they were using. I just used the 3.5m a lot since I'm a smaller than most. : ) One of the days I was on my 6.5m the whole time.

As for flying small kites locally ... 90% of the time i'm on my 7.8m Butan, unless its huge winds. Not to mention we dont have much space so screaming down a small park overpowered really could be dangerous.

time to move to cali or lv.