Foil wrote: ↑Wed Jun 02, 2021 7:00 am
2 of us here have kept hold of our hyperlinks just for these nasty wind days, 5mtr
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its safe and predictable in the air, and launch or land is drama free once you get over the worry of the first few launches
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launching is the big barrier to many as larger foil kites can be scary in strong gusty winds, but not this 5mtr.
As a guy who is hooked on flysurfer since many years, I would like to better understand this. I always self launch my (well prefilled) foil kites and I found this very easy to do with all the flysurfers during the last many years (currently souls).
However, lately I tried my friends Hyperlink in 9sqm and I did not manage to do a „controlled“ self launch on the edge of the wind window, not even close. Sure, it flew well after the first few seconds, but at first it did not peel itself easily from the ground at the edge of the window as expected and then it did not stay on the edge while filling the missing last percentages of air. (While on the water with a foilboard, the Hl was very predictable, nice and intuitive as expected).
I also bought a 5sqm hyperlink for me, but when I tried to launch it a few times it showed the same strange launching behaviour that I never experienced on my flysurfer foilkites…
This is why I ask you here: Is there something different with the HL to self launch it on the edge if the windwindow, am I doing something wrong, or are you just overhyping this because after a few seconds of flying it is fine anyway?