Already changed to the second knot on the steering lines. Also checked the bar and the lines are equal with trimmed out and bar pulled in so it's not the bar. My Sonic came from FS with B+C both 1cm shorter than A,Z and I've heard of other sonic owners with messed up mixers so I highly doubt equaling ABCZ will make these Sonics fly well. Right now it looks like my sonic is flying better at A=Z, B -2cm, C -1cm. If I have a couple hours with nothing to do I'll try to measure all bridle lines but this kite has been like this since day 1.Jzh_perth wrote:I've had many customers with Sonic's now and it's critical that you have the correct front / rear line lengths. Sounds like you have a brand new kite - I assume a new bar aswell ? After about 10 flying hours your rear lines will have shrunk and you'll need to lengthen by a knot or so under the bar floats. This is normal.logsdon wrote:Have this problem on my Sonic 11m out of the bag. Messed with the bridle some and will see hopefully on Tuesday if I fix it. Which kite is doing this to you? I want to see if this is a regular occurring thing on certain kite models.
If your mixer is not ABCZ all equal, then reset to that. We had a couple delivered slightly out of whack.
Sonic should fly well with neutral mixer, but as others have mentioned you can shorten B / C 1cm at a time to reduce camber and increase stability.
Occasional Lower Wingtip folding when riding deep downwind ( ie foiling) is common, and required careful technique to avoid. Rear line tension here helps.
logsdon wrote:Already changed to the second knot on the steering lines. Also checked the bar and the lines are equal with trimmed out and bar pulled in so it's not the bar. My Sonic came from FS with B+C both 1cm shorter than A,Z and I've heard of other sonic owners with messed up mixers so I highly doubt equaling ABCZ will make these Sonics fly well. Right now it looks like my sonic is flying better at A=Z, B -2cm, C -1cm. If I have a couple hours with nothing to do I'll try to measure all bridle lines but this kite has been like this since day 1.Jzh_perth wrote:I've had many customers with Sonic's now and it's critical that you have the correct front / rear line lengths. Sounds like you have a brand new kite - I assume a new bar aswell ? After about 10 flying hours your rear lines will have shrunk and you'll need to lengthen by a knot or so under the bar floats. This is normal.logsdon wrote:Have this problem on my Sonic 11m out of the bag. Messed with the bridle some and will see hopefully on Tuesday if I fix it. Which kite is doing this to you? I want to see if this is a regular occurring thing on certain kite models.
If your mixer is not ABCZ all equal, then reset to that. We had a couple delivered slightly out of whack.
Sonic should fly well with neutral mixer, but as others have mentioned you can shorten B / C 1cm at a time to reduce camber and increase stability.
Occasional Lower Wingtip folding when riding deep downwind ( ie foiling) is common, and required careful technique to avoid. Rear line tension here helps.
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