jakemoore wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:42 pm
leeuwen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:29 am
I think the easiest implementation would not be a fuse but some way of doing an unhooked launch without the unhooking resulting in a fully powered bar.
I imagine a stopperball below the bar would easily do this for you.
Basically it will get yanked out of your hands it is to much.
Just hold the chicken loop in your hand. Hold the chicken loop and not the bar. The kite rests on its shoulder on the ground without need for bar input. It’s like a tethered ghost launch but rather than hooking the chicken loop to a hard object it is in your hand.
That is only good until you get the kite in the air when you hook in.
We found in the old days that you tended to grip harder when the bar was yanked.
The idea with the kite release is as the OP is suggesting, something that would work as you are flying the kite on land or on water in a tricky spot.
You also have to remember in 2006, quick releases were not what they are today, many of them were not effective under load so a standard quick release on the bar was a possible solution. Slingshot had their surefire bar quick release as a possible solution. It also had some issues.
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What I find frustrating is that a decade later we are having the same conversations about safety and equipment we had over a decade ago.
I find it mildly encouraging that the afnor standard for quick releases is now an iso standard. I find it very frustrating that the industry has not addressed color coding, kook proof connections, and I don’t see any industry wide push for safety or standardization.