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B19 ELS
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Postby B19 ELS » Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:50 pm
Hope you guys can help to enter the foil zone?
I just bought a 2017 f one breeze 13m and want to know how to adapt a 5th bar to run the 4 line breeze?
Can I put the 5th line on the same line as the front line depower? Just lengthen the 5th with some new line to give correct length?
Does a high or low v split matter in how the bar/ kite performs?
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Postby Foil » Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:11 pm
not sure about the 5th line bar as its so long ago since last I used one.
however I had all the breeze sizes and tried them on a low V setting to do away with the little splitter gizmo, but unfortunately it did not work good, the kite felt soft and a little floppy at the ends, sort of too much flare when driven hard through the window, and the breeze already flaps quite a bit under hard turn situations and the low V seemed to make this worse, so yes you can fly it on a low V but the kite is not a good if you do.
Also the relaunch in light wind suffers badly on a low V setting, so another reason to fly it as designed.
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