Wize - 12-8-2008 at 03:53 AM
Hi, i´m a newbie in the kite world so i was hoping you could help me. i got recently a 3m Mosquito kite and a crossover control bar this bar has a
harness line but i dont know how to connect the bar in the harness. the picture is attached to the message. hope you can help me
Sandman - 12-8-2008 at 04:11 AM
Also this can be found in the instruction manual that came with the bar or at this website under the picture there is a link to the manual for your
bar.
http://en.radsails.com/accessories/radsails-kites/cross-over...
Hope this helps.
acampbell - 12-8-2008 at 04:36 AM
The red arrow in your picture points to the "D-loop". That's what hooks into the harness via the hook on the spreader bar.
dylanj423 - 12-8-2008 at 08:31 AM
As a new kite flier, using your D-loop should probably wait until you can comfortably fly your kite. I dont know what kind of winds you are flying in,
but being hooked into a kite while trying to learn how to fly it might be a bad idea, You dont need to hook in to fly that kite (I dont think, anyway,
unless it is a depower, which as far as I know dont really come in 3m sizes), and if you get into trouble (being new, you probably will), getting
unhooked in time might be an issue.
That velcro strap in your picture tugs on the brake lines if/when you let go of the bar. Looks like a decent safety that could be strapped around your
wrist, or spreader bar. I waited months before I strapped into a kite with a harness. I tried to fly hooked in in some really high winds one day, and
as luck would have it, I couldnt even get the kite in the air... if I would have, I am quite certain that I would have gotten hurt.
There is a lot of time to learn how to fly these kind of kites, but an injury, if bad enough, will take you out for a while.
There may be someone in your area that could show you a few things, also. That would speed up the learning process. I'm sure that if you ask a
question, that someone here will answer you.
My advice is to wait on using the harness, and learn how to fly the kite first.
Bladerunner - 12-8-2008 at 08:43 AM
I'm not 100% with you on the harness thing. I agree that flying unhooked is best at 1st. Once you have some control, if you have your harness on you
can still hook in and take a load off when not flying . Those little breaks without having to put the kite down extend your day greatly. A longer day
means more fly time and more learned !
In my experience small kites don't take to a crossover bar too well. Expect to find the kite drops back and acts a bit odd in low winds. The problems
will lessen as the winds pick up.
Wize - 12-8-2008 at 09:51 AM
Ok tks for the help and the attention, i can contron the kite well with the handles, but i´m practising for landboarding and i guess that with the
control bar it´s easier to control the board and the kite, and i´m still learning how to launch the kite with the bar, i havent managed to do it yet
but i think the wind was to low that time.
I have i nice beach near it´s called praia do Guincho in Portugal that has nice wind conditions.