Great morning here, clean 20 mph winds and 4" of fresh snow. !6M Scorpion was my weapon of choice, be nice to get more snow little hard on the feet. Found my camera but forgot to check batteries, dead of course. Will pick up new ones this week and try and get some video on. Couple of really nice lifts with great float time, no height but good distance.

The Vancouver gang had a great day yesterday.

Airin is constantly proving Her natural abilaty.

The Young fellow was Ga,Ga in Love with the Syn. Pulling HOOJ static jumps and showing huge improvent on the ATB. His Dad got going in the Buggy and I think has been Properly hooked !

Solaris brought out the new 2m Reflex and we gave it a go. The kite felt natural to beginer Airin and She immdiatlely / instinctively started pumping away creating power enough to ride it in low wind.

Rip' Got dragged through a huge puddle :P and everyone was wet + dirty. :piggy:

I got a good run in on the Radical Demo.

Ken'3 Hit above 40kph NOT easy in our small pak.

This MAY have been the last great day of the season for us but a GREAT DAY it was ! :bigok:

I had a great session yesterday! It even made my right middle finger where the line goes in between the fingers numb for a few hours afterward :tumble: Too bad it started to rain

Went out this morning...almost no wind. The Reactor II 5.5m came out. What a wonderful kite. Wind picked up to about 5mph and switched to a 3m Hornet. Also a great kite. Passerby got a lesson. It was a great morning.

Great session yesterday on Jekyll Island. Wind was SE built to 12 mph with enough E for 3-mil cruises down to the southern water tower and back a few times. Few enough people to easily maneuver around. Day was dry and in the 70's with severe clear.

Set up the Synergy 15m but the wind dipped of course after getting it laid out, so switched to the 8.6m Reactor II. Trips south were upwind so the harness and strop were mandatory. This kite goes upwind like a bandit! I pulled some tacking angles that I thought would be impossible. Downwind runs were a Nantucket Sleigh Ride. Park and ride heaven.

I flew my kite yesterday actually, but it was a circle of events that provided me with some unscheduled time to enjoy decent wind...A few months back while flying at a local park that gets very little public use, I was interrupted by a State Police patrol car. The officer parked and got out then headed my way so I landed and secured the kite. I braced for a headache. As it turns out, this Trooper has been flying power kites with his dad for many years and was psyched to see someone else enjoying windsports. We traded contact info. Flash forward to yesterday...I reported for Federal jury duty, but was not selected for the jury and dismissed because I was aquainted with Trooper JRW one of the witnesses in the case. Having no immediate obligation I returned to the park and flew for an hour. So yesterday I applauded the legal system and thre freedom to fly a kite!

So my wife is running a Board meeting (Board of Directors, not kiteboard) in San Juan, Puerto Rico this weekend and I am obligated to go along. I am surely throwing some kites in the suitcase. Is the beach there good?

Beaches look nice to the East and you have a ENE 12mph sea breeze on Saturday. You have your buggy broken down for packing yet? :cool2:

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Originally posted by ride_wv I flew my kite yesterday actually, but it was a circle of events that provided me with some unscheduled time to enjoy decent wind...A few months back while flying at a local park that gets very little public use, I was interrupted by a State Police patrol car. The officer parked and got out then headed my way so I landed and secured the kite. I braced for a headache. As it turns out, this Trooper has been flying power kites with his dad for many years and was psyched to see someone else enjoying windsports. We traded contact info. Flash forward to yesterday...I reported for Federal jury duty, but was not selected for the jury and dismissed because I was aquainted with Trooper JRW one of the witnesses in the case. Having no immediate obligation I returned to the park and flew for an hour. So yesterday I applauded the legal system and thre freedom to fly a kite!

Now thats a good story! The system at work in your favor!

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Originally posted by ride_wv I flew my kite yesterday actually, but it was a circle of events that provided me with some unscheduled time to enjoy decent wind...A few months back while flying at a local park that gets very little public use, I was interrupted by a State Police patrol car. The officer parked and got out then headed my way so I landed and secured the kite. I braced for a headache. As it turns out, this Trooper has been flying power kites with his dad for many years and was psyched to see someone else enjoying windsports. We traded contact info. Flash forward to yesterday...I reported for Federal jury duty, but was not selected for the jury and dismissed because I was aquainted with Trooper JRW one of the witnesses in the case. Having no immediate obligation I returned to the park and flew for an hour. So yesterday I applauded the legal system and thre freedom to fly a kite!

hahaha!! very nice!!! yesterday i got a nice 4 hour session with the buggy and my 7.1 xxl........

3 hrs on the H2O this morning 15-20 winds, 20+ in the morning! It would be easier if I just posted on days that I don't kite!............aj

in my head , most of the day. Welding gives you lots of time to reflect. LOL

Always good winds there Weldngod =). Today, took my cousin to try out power kiting. Started him off on a 2.5m for an hour or so. Went to a 5m, and the winds started picking up, and ended the day back on the 2.5m. I think we have a new power kite enthusiast.

oooo I wanted too but had to work.

Probably a good thing.

Well here I am in sunny San Juan, PR, with a PL Twister 5.6, a building breeze on-shore from the water and no room to fly. The beach is just large enough to fly, but just a few people here and there, even in front of the abandoned hotels, leaves no room without clothes-lining a local.

Reminds me of the Commander Cody song...
"Well here I sit, all alone with a broken heart,
I took three bennies, and now my semi-truck won't start..."

YES!!! I got a bit of flying time in at Anacostia Park with my 4m PKD Brooza.

Flew my snapshot 1.2 today in the vacant lot at 2410 and 3081. Winds were variable, from force 1 to force 3. Had a couple of gusts up at the upper edge of force three and the kite actually pulled me forward a bit! :wee: Can't wait to have something a little bit bigger that has that much power regularly at lower wind speeds

Hey willard, what service gives you the wind/gust spread in graph form like that? or did you do it?

http://mesowest.utah.edu/index.html

:wee: I flew several of them. I got the best depower session to date. Nothing special but I am still learning.

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Originally posted by stetson05 :wee: I flew several of them. I got the best depower session to date. Nothing special but I am still learning.

what do you mean nothing special? I think is was spectacular!

Yep, flew today. It was great.

fletcht, Is that all the farther south you went? there's another field past the house.
I didn't see any speed indicators on the pic, were you below the speed limit?

you had your kindergarten son scribble on a google satellite image? sweeet:roll:

Bigkid, I wasn't sure about the field further south. Next time I'll travel on across. I think we both need are GPS's calibrated, or at least your eyes. Jeech, not my son's those are my artistic skills. 20 miles of scribble lines.

No real wind today, still tried :-) See the charger post.

haha just pullin your leg fletch. looks like fun, never thought of taking my gps and tracking before, maybe I'll do that soon.

Fletcht, I like the pic. I wonder where the sprinkler lines were from your tracks.

had a great session yesterday on my 7 though..

there was a little wind today.. but it kept changing direction mainly to offshore

Stetson, didn't you notice, I went under the sprinklers. Actually the open area in the upper right. Had one run around the upper end of that line. Then that open area near the center. The lower field the scribble lines were running parallel to the sprinklers. The lines furthest south went around the sprinklers. Great time. Too bad my SD card went belly up on me only captured 30 seconds of vid.
Next time.