Any trimming tips for Hadlow 2011 rigged on 5 lines?

Do you depower it a little?
Rode the 9m today. I was pretty powered despite weighin 93 kg and others were on 10 and 12 m. It's a powerful kite for sure.
I did have a little trouble going upwind once in a while and wonder if the kite is to far back in the window? (or it was just the gusty wind)

Any tips on how not to loose the CL when having the leash in the 5th line?

Must admit I am new on C kites so don´t have the trim feeling
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PS Awesome kite

Dont know the bar at all but north have a ring with two loops for you so you can ride suicide for unhooked but still have the safety of the chicken loop when hooked in.

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Sanjay said...Any tips on how not to loose the CL when having the leash in the 5th line?

The usual trick is to hook the leash through the fifth line and then clip it to the bottom of the CL. If your hooked in and release the safety on the CL then the CL will slide sideways out of the leash and still be attached to the fifth line.

you should ask IKSurfnoob mag, they will know for sure!
or better idea just get a fuel and be a champion like Andy

I didn't think it had any trimming options. You're always fully powered, or almost full powered

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Saffer said...

I didn't think it had any trimming options. You're always fully powered, or almost full powered

Of course you can trim any kite via the depower strap. I am just a bit in doubt about this one as it is a new design to me.
Any Hadlow experience out there?

Anyone made adjustments to length of 5th etc. ?

on the 5th line pigtail on the kite, put a knot right at the end of it and use that, it makes the kite perform 10x better than it does on factory settings. factory seems to have made the 5th just a fraction too tight.

that upwind trouble is probably because of the 5th being too tight and making it lose power, when 5th is too tight it feels like your mega lit but when you unhook and try pop you just dont get much out of it. as soon as i made that minor adjustment the kite was magic.

and for your CL look at the photo in my profile of the LF bar mod that i did. would work the same for the flexi bar.

Thanks Charl dv !!
I know how to fly a kite but that trimming ain't my core comptence, especially not as I am new to 5th lines C kites etc.

How do you generally know if your 5th is a bit to short?

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Sanjay said...

Thanks Charl dv !!
I know how to fly a kite but that trimming ain't my core comptence, especially not as I am new to 5th lines C kites etc.

How do you generally know if your 5th is a bit to short?

when turning the kite would pivot off the 5th line, so its kind of just spinning in the air and not doing big arcs through the turns, when its right the kite turns more off the wing tip and has a lot more power in the turns.

also you'd find that the kite has random crazy forward speed and makes it feel over powered all the time but when you unhook and pop you dont go as big as you'd expect too. and you struggle to go up wind for some reason too.

basically sums it up, the 5th should hang with a bit of sag on it so its not completely under tension (kind of like how your back lines hang when you fully depower)

Thanks
So it's not an active fifth line ?

I will adjust it/lengthen it so it is a bit slacked

literally just tie a knot at the end of the pigtail on the kite's side, thats all it needs.

Understood. Thanks !
Just wondered of it is an active 5th Line or not. Not I assume.

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Charl dv said...

literally just tie a knot at the end of the pigtail on the kite's side, thats all it needs.

Couldn't this be size specific?? What sizes do you have experience with on 5th?

was on the 9. pretty sure it had to be done on the 11 too though not so sure. just try it and see if it flies better or not, worst that will happen is it wont fly nice for one session and you know for sure whether it helped or not. end of that you can just untie it again and go back to normal