geron wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 3:16 pm
You have to work on them...
"jaja" like you say ; lol ... thanks for the advice ...
; as you may have guessed , you can play with the radius value and this is the radius I had chosen at that time, depending on wind feeling and my goal at that moment;-). and also because the Hysper-2 is very "open" and versatile to various loops, so you can do "what you want" with poor consequences
; bu ok, if it is to save the kite from going to water or keep it high to catch a bit more wind, you need a short loop even with controlled backstall; if wind gradient is not high or if you are in a ride, you can increase the diameter and get more power; hard to debate on the feeling of the kite by words and my choice of the good balance.
I take the opportunity to say that it turns very well, in the following sens:
- no latency compared to double skins
- kite loops well , even with short radius with light backstall of one wing, where the pul remains and you can exit this situation more easily than double skins
- of course like any kite it has more pull for larger loop, but the difference is not that high ; you need to keep a bit of tension on both lines to optimize it (while on double skin, the lighter tension on the outer line, the most efficient loop
Today I tried in extremely light wind on the beach (video to come next week since it takes so much time and 3 video are still waiting for editing , including hysper2-4m in swell); wind was a bit lower that what the Pulsion would have allowed (I would say - 0.5 knots), my friend ( foil teacher and sonic2 user) was not believing it was possible to even launch a foikite (but said "ok, we'll see, this man is plenty of surprise" lol, gentle man) and the kite was still able to get out of its extreme window by turning upward with almost no backstall or very controllable; very intuitive and does not require fine skills. This is easy and "plug and play", with its similar pull downward or upward phase, but on the other hand you cannot not benefit of the higher peak power when kite goes down , which can sometimes be useful for extreme water start... However should a wing tip collapse a bit, it is harder to re-shape the kite than a double skin ...
Peter,
indeed you spoted well , it seems to behaves like a Peak overall ; I mean in comparison with double skins ; I do not have tested the peak4 in 13m , so I cannot report any fine comparison on minimum wind, structure rigidity in lulls, stability or and loop peak power; on the paper, and due to the weight , ratio, and rigidity, I think the Hyper should be more than competitive but nothing would worth more than a back-to-back test... I think Hyper is more fragile , pure feeling.