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Postby Pablo » Wed Feb 26, 2003 10:46 pm
If I had a kite lets say 5 sqm, what would be its low end?
I thnk that it should be capable of generatng more pull compared to a bigger kite, since it would be really fast and so the apparent wind huge.
would I be riding upwind in 30 knots? (66 kg, 138 tt)
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Postby oli » Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:30 pm
I'm 70 kg, and I've been riding in gusty 20/26 knots with a 8 sqm friends kite,
So I think that you could reach 30 knots with a 5 one.
These small kites are really differents than bigger one. They fly like mosquitos, fast, fast, fast !!!
You can switch from a no-power kite to a pulling-like-hell one in a very short time...
You know, seriously, 30 knots means lot of power. Can be fun, but it's living on the edge
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Postby Pablo » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:00 am
the reason for this kite is that some days ago we had these conditions, and the smallest kite I had was a 8sqm npw5, and I was wayy overpowered, it was imposible to egde in the gusts
this would be a 'sheared' kite, so always someone has an eye on you if anything happens.
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