Wow there is a few peanuts in this thread. Nothing makes me laugh more than watching someone furiously try to power their kite up with it trailing edge down in the water. With all the 1 season instructors and depower/power misnomers, it never would surprise me though. But this is 2015 and you would think the right information would finally start to sink in. And then I saw some one with 15 years experience do it :-/ and that explains religion.
It's a lever: take the front lines as the point of pivot, the trailing edge as the end of the lever. The farther you go from the pivot, the farther and with less force you have to move the lever to affect the same amount of change in the angle (of attack).
Settings closer to the LE will also give more bar pressure with less range of movement for the bar - a more on/off feel.
dragnfly wrote:, and it felt like it gave significantly more hang time. Really enjoyed it, and will definately be putting my other kites on B setting too.
will try that on the fx for sure, may solve its only flaw : hangtime
hangtime has more to do with the projected area of a kite. The FX has a lot of surface area dedicated to the wingtips which are nearly vertical which doesn't leave much surface area in the middle. changing from the A to B settings is only going to change how much input you have over the kite but it isn't going to change how that kite performs. Best way to get more hang time on the FX is to fly a bigger kite. I have the 10/14 FX kites and can agree they don't have a ton of hangtime. For me it seems like they max out around 7 seconds of hang time when I'm fully lit. That doesn't change the fact that they are my favorite kite though
huge wrote:
dragnfly wrote:, and it felt like it gave significantly more hang time. Really enjoyed it, and will definately be putting my other kites on B setting too.
will try that on the fx for sure, may solve its only flaw : hangtime