pbc proudly presents, an instructional video for fixing inverted kite lines. Without landing. You know after you roll the kite over a few times after an unexpected landing (some might call this a crash).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQC9et8wONk

This is demoed on a arc, but I'm curious if others might be able to do something similar on other kites.

I do this all the time. I thought it was a thing most people knew...

I'd only try it on an arc since they auto-zenith. Other kites would fall off to the side.

It has to be smooth winds and with an arc that has smooth autozenith. Very good tutorial Phillip!

This is why I prefer to move my 07 bar between my 18 and 15m arcs. My navigator bar with the split up higher prevents this fix.

I hold the center lines below the bar just above my top hat and don't do that reach through lines thing. I have to move to holding above the bar to finish it off because I always have to unroll the bar to finish it off.

I have never tried with anything but an arc and suspect it wouldn't be near as easy / somewhat dangerous without auto zenith.

Current NAV bars have equal length lines, so it works again.

That's cool. My foils have swiveling chicken loops so I can untangle the centers just by pulling the bar up and down like you did but I could never get away with the pass the bar through the center trick without losing my arm or kite

Quote: Originally posted by B-Roc

That's cool. My foils have swiveling chicken loops so I can untangle the centers just by pulling the bar up and down like you did but I could never get away with the pass the bar through the center trick without losing my arm or kite

I kind of assumed this is/was an arc only thing, but I'm open to the idea others might be able to do the same. The arc makes it really easy as the kite will take care of itself during the operation. I've not flown a kite I think I could do the same with that wasn't an arc, but I'm not going to concede such a kite does not exist.

And yes, swivels are awesome!