Hi All,
I have a 15M Sonic FR. I am new to foil kites. This is my first foil and I have been flying it since August. I now comfortably self launch and self land it, but my problem is landing with control.
I typically fly the sonic in winds between 8-14 knots. Main range would be closer to 8-11 knots.
My beach is just enough to land the kite before hitting the trees on high tide and much more space on a low tide. The landing area is grass with some weeds. Weeds do have some thorns, so I really want to learn how to land on a patch of grass without weeds or without hitting the trees accidentally. There is NEVER anybody to launch or land me, so I need to do it myself.
I hope there is something more to learn and I will be able to land the kite in full control and precision. Precision is the key word here. How to do it?
At the moment I follow the following routine:
I bring the kite to 45 and then pull the back lines to stall the kite.
At the moment of me pulling on those balls attached to back lines, the kite starts to quickly back-stall gain speed and fly backwards and downwards and hit the ground trailing edge first.
It all works, but...
I feel that at the moment of the stalling backwards, things are going way too fast and I am just hanging on to those lines till the kite hits the ground. I am not controlling where exactly it will hit or the speed or decent.
So the question is: Can the speed of the final decent and the location on where the kite finally sits, be controlled with precision? Is it a skill I need to acquire? if so, what is the technique to use?
Thank you all in advance.
-D.