I love to hear my line sing but, I fly most of the time underpowered mostly due to lack of wind. Thanks. Looking for a bigger kite

The Kite Gods, I've already been warned about for sometime now as far as any kite flying... (New Kite Syndrom) Its supposed to RAIN for like the next week solid, (But my kite flying park is only 10min away so I can go between showers & I WILL)

Will the "Buster" Fly on short Paracord lines if the winds JUST right??? I mean for all out (Small Park, Scudding) not worried about control or drag, just the pull of the kite "drag" for Poppin up in the air & doing short "hot launch" scuds, then quik landings, so what if I have to keep walking back to start over, somedays thats all the wind does... Starts then STOPS... It'd be fun to just get some MAJOR low wind scudding when theres not enongh wind to really FLY decently & in a small park... What sort of winds are we talking to fill up the "Buster" & scud with short HEAVY lines???

Never tried it, but I'd assume a fair bit more wind than on standard lines.

Reason for this is that on short lines the window will be quite small, you'll basically be parking and riding. It'll be really hard to work the kite for more power. On longer lines you can get away with a lot less wind because you can keep moving the kite around the window to keep the apparent winds up. If you're good with apparent wind you can keep flying in way less wind than normal.

Now if you want some real fun in light winds, hook two sets of lines together giving yourself somewhere around 40-50m lines. You'll be able to keep the kite moving full tilt and generating lots of power in almost no wind, control response gets slowed down quite a bit though.

Whos Got all the Winds & need some Rain??? I Need a FIX!!!

I need both. Lake Lanier in Atlanta will take 3 years of normal rainfall to refill. My lake is way low too. I hope the winter rains can fill it back up.

Hmmmm, windy and snowing, just pitch black.

Nebula, I had crazy wind the other day and really wanted to fly my 8 meter! (The winds called for a 3) I made a ground handling rig to practice for PG lessons (If I ever get them) so I put on my harness and the kite PG style and man it was cool! Well once I got the hang of it anyways. Forward launch, so much power it rips my waist out from under me and I hit the ground, and got dragged a good bit. Try #2 I pulled the hell out of the brakes and because of the windspeed it still launched just slowly without power, release the brakes and BAM! I get lifted a good 7 feet and kept there for a good 3 or 4 seconds, kiting the wing. MAN IT WAS SICK! By the end of the day I could loft myself and stay up for a good 15 seconds. Would have tried on a hill but the wind was blowing down them, not up.

sthrasher - sent you a u2u - today looks good!

I'm pretty sure sthrasher is in Monterey this weekend.

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