Snowkiters or snowKITER as in Chasta?nab1000 wrote:Rick first off your work is EXCELLENT! It's very educational and helpful.
Just one qeustion.... I always seen video of snowkiters jumping and getting caught in thermals and hovering 40-50ft off the ground.... has there been any reported deaths from this activity?
Thanks
Yeah, most of the time they're fine but there's no guarantee the weather won't do something unexpected.Sea&Sun wrote:I agree with this so much I have to bring it back up!!! I see kiters staying until the storm is on thier ass. Most of these guys are seasoned locals who can kite when ever its windy. They just don't get it.
Thanks! If we can get more kiters to think about this stuff a bit more carefully we should all be better off.nab1000 wrote:Rick first off your work is EXCELLENT! It's very educational and helpful.
Just one qeustion.... I always seen video of snowkiters jumping and getting caught in thermals and hovering 40-50ft off the ground.... has there been any reported deaths from this activity?
Thanks
No, I am not aware of any fatalities involving Peter Lynn kites or foils. With the exception of the snowkiteboard fatality in Canada involving a foil.aprok wrote:Rick, do you have any reported cases of Peter Lynn kite related fatalities?
RickI wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if there was a quantity of unreported fatalities out there worldwide.Toby wrote:thx for the info.
interesting read...wow, 54 is a lot! And I'm sure we are missing some death. I assume we are about 70 since 2000.
What about windsurfing or surfing? Any stats somewhere?
Can we say that over the years the number of fatalities have increased in relation to the increasing numbers of kiters?
I have broken down losses per year, years of experience, age, month, season, wind speed, relative direction, location/activity, etc. and a great deal more. This summary will be posted soon. I suspect that a portion of the dramatic increase in 2005 was attributable to the increase in rider population.
I have little doubt that properly operated within reasonable manufacturer's wind specifications, flat kites could substantially improve the loss experience in our sport. By some indications, they may have already. How many people will be caught out pushing extremes with flat kites beyond recommended limits in time? Too many perhaps.
SBC Kiteboard will also be carrying more statistics and information in the next issue.
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Unfortunately this is not right. Look at this (in Danish though):RickI wrote:To my knowledge there have been no fatalities involving flat kites yet.
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