hey I have a skydog 4 meter. Today I was flying it and crashed it into a bush. I don't see any damage didn't crash it fast, but now when I tried to fly it, it would just do a spiral. I am pretty new to this. Not sure why this happen. The wind was 15-20 mph. Some times it would fly good for a few sec then it would just go into a death spiral. This was my 3rd time to fly it. First 2 times, it was fine but wind was like 10 mph. I was thinking it was something with break lines. I had the break lines on the third knot thing and it would just spiral the sec I launch it. Than i moved it to the first one and flew a little better but still would go into a spiral.
Any idea what is wrong?
thanks

Look closely at your bridle. It's sometimes hard to notice a knoted line.

Try flying it as a 2 line .

Check that your lines are all still even.

Good instinct loosening the brakes. Spirals are nearly always brake related.

Sounds to me like either you got line stretch, or you may have gotten the bridle crossed up somewhere. It could be something with the kite itself, but usually if your lines are still even, the bridle is crossed up somewhere. stretch out the bridle, make sure all lines seem to be laying flat and not crossed or twisted inside itself. When you crashed into the kite, it may have turned inside out within the bridle and now something is off.

If you don't see anything, go over the kite very carefully and make sure that there are no blown cells, or tears in the material.

good luck

o ok thanks for the info

if you bridal is looped or knotted youll see it...................lay her out and compare lines on each side.........let us know what you find

ok will do, ill probably check it on sunday

hey ok so I found a small knot on one of the breaklines, I took it out. Would a small knot really cause this much problems? I was looking at the bridal lines. when I pulled one section of the bridal, I notice like the middle lines where a little slacked. Not sure if its suppose to be like this or not. no wind today, so can't really test it out. Maybe the the bridal lines were crossed before cause I took off the lines to get the kite out.

Crossed lines makes a ton of sense. I have been there . The more you try to correct the more you loop.
More sense than a simple knot without a loop to shorten the line.

That said, a knot greatly reduces the strength of your line so getting it out was important.

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Originally posted by Bladerunner That said, a knot greatly reduces the strength of your line so getting it out was important.

ok thanks for the help, ill post back if I am still having problems

Heck, post back and tell us of your victories, too!

lol ok so far didnt have a chance to test it. So hot outside lol