as I go thru the learning process, i picked up a couple kites that I am very impressed with as far as drifting, needing little input or attention. a 11m chrono v3 UL and a 7m hyperlink V1 UL. the hyperlink needs more attention but that is another story.
they seem to drift great (in my opinion), i think due to their super lightweightness,,,, BUT
When i go into a carving turn, i try to go into it with some decent speed (for me at least, probably like 3 mph is super fast to me) and manytimes I will catch a wind swell wave, and suddenly I am going down the wave with what i consider to be impressive speed,, and I am a bit scared to finish my carve, and these great drifting kites that i mentioned will fall out of the sky, which doesn't make me super happy
sometimes even if i don't get caught on the swell, I will wind up doing a slightly larger radius carve, and it will also happen.
my question is,, do these 2 kites i mentioned drift better than most kites? they sure seem like it to me. has anyone with lots of experience seriously compared them to clouds or even UFO's?
my general practice is when carving to keep a hand lightly on the bar with the bar pulled down to keep line tension so the kite "follows" me, I am not actively turning the kite usually and to be clear, I am not trying to carve a turn and then head off on another tack,, i am trying to link turns from heelside to toeside, sort of going at a little angle off straight downwind.
is it too optimistic to think they should drift better,, i guess they can't drift any faster than the wind and if i am somehow exceeding windspeed, then not sure what to do. foil kites falling out of the sky=bad
I am on a North Sonar 1150 under a slingshot Hypermiler board. i am 200 lbs