Postby edt » Thu Jun 27, 2013 8:31 pm
you have to be very careful about matching your kites, they have to fly the same, otherwise, one kite will just tug another kite around like a monkey riding a chicken.
But once you have them matched get the line lengths right, and hot launch you soon discover that yes, you can add the kite power together but there is absolutely zero upwind performance, all the great things about your kite, the turning, the upwind performance, the speed, it's all gone replaced by a dreadful downhill tug.
Flexifoil or peter lynn kites stack the best, they are designed for it, but I don't recommend it even in super light wind.
It's good to try one time just to understand why the whole idea of multiple kites for more power got put on the shelf in 1984 and hasn't been back since.