Kite Pulls?

[Guest]

Have a puzle to solve on my kite. The kite is PERFECTLY balanced fyying to the left, to the point that I did 2-300 yards with both hands off the bar and the kite parked perfectly 20'off of the water. To the right, however, the kite dives to the water and I must constantly correct.

The line set is about 4 sessions old--Q-line homemade, and I am a port favored jumper, so there might be some uneven length to correct now. They were dead on and pre-stretched when I started

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Steve]

What kind of kite, bar, lines?

[Hernan]

If your kite has a small tendency to turn right, this could be cancelled by its weight flying at the left side. When you park the kite to the right you will notice this tendency more.
When you fly an "imbalanced" kite, the bad side is always where the kite try to go down.
Perhaps is only a bar-lines problem, recheck your lines or fly it with the bar left to right just to do the test.
How the kite behaves at 12 gives you an idea on how balanced it is.

[Dwight]

Have a puzle to solve on my kite. The kite is PERFECTLY balanced fyying to the left, to the point that I did 2-300 yards with both hands off the bar and the kite parked perfectly 20'off of the water. To the right, however, the kite dives to the water and I must constantly correct.

The line set is about 4 sessions old--Q-line homemade, and I am a port favored jumper, so there might be some uneven length to correct now. They were dead on and pre-stretched when I started

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Q line is very stretchy the first several sessions. You need to recheck the lines now, and in a few weeks, then they stop stretching.

[offshore?]

easy answer park the kite at the zenith (in safe area/winds) ans see what it does, if it moves right fault is setup problem (bar/lines)

it could be due to uneven heel wieght i.e. your favoured direction