Well uh you don't know what uh you can find uh

"Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride ..."



I've been well and truly arcumcised!
... the Phantom 15 I bought in June from Carltb (he's the newest Peter Lynn team rider, you know ... I get bonus qudos for owning his cast-offs ) finally arrived this morning! :wee: patooie on Parcel Farce!

So I rushed home from work (yes I work on a Saturday ) and rushed out to the beach ... set the Phantom up, set the lines up and tried to launch it. Ok I need to work on that some genius told me my rear lines were 30cm too short - I said "You're probably right" cos I'm such a nice guy when I was thinking the whole time I should have inflated the kite fully while it was on the ground ... anyway!

Eventually got it into the air and flying ... Oh M F G what a machine! I wasn't so much scudding as being pulled around with my feet gliding over the ground like a magic carpet ...
I was feeling pretty psyched so I thought I'd try some jumps, which I just don't do on my foils ... gentle floating lofts, skimming the ground gentle touch downs.

Why do people bother with pump ups?

It was a club day on the beach so there were hordes of people standing around in the fading light as I stood there holding open my zipper ... on the Phantom :D
Several times I just let go the bar to adjust my harness straps - in all excitement, I forgot to snug down the spreader bar :shocked2: and it was flapping around somewhere around my chin when the kite was parking itself at auto-zenith - dudes, how cool is that?!?

When it pulls, you know you're hooked up to some power but it's just so constant and manageable - none of this jerking and twitching like the inflatables I've used, like there's an epileptic draught horse on the end of the power lines.

After it got dark I released I was so jazzed-up unpacking I didn't pay attention to the landing procedure or safety release systems and had to figure out the 04 bar from memories of the pics I'd seen and touch ... I had the leash hooked to my harness leash though so when I released the red hat, there was so much gentle spring in the leash system that it didn't rip the velcro off the leash lock and flag the kite - the Phantom just sat at zenith glaring down at me I hauled in the line and gave it a good jerk, and it flapped down and sat on the ground.

Opened the deflate zipper and folded the kite in half, then went back to the bar to sort the lines. By the time the moon had risen and I looked up at the kite, it had totally deflated.

Yo, why do people bother with inflatables? man I can't wait to get back out ... can you tell I'm excited :D I kept thinking ... "If this is an old 15m - what's the VenomII 19 going to be like?!?"

Cheers all! still a bit fired up ...!

Might have been, furb - I got his eBay link through here IIRC ... USA to here usually takes 2 weeks on USPS - that I can handle. The "It should take 46-51 business days but it may be more and if it doesn't arrive you don't have insurance so ..." attitude of the dorks at Parcel Farce didn't put me in a good mood either!

Now I'm off to try to get some sleep ... going to wrap myself up in Carl's Phantom and have snuggle, to absorb some of his mojo

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Originally posted by lad The Hafta1Nail1 Arc Flu claims another victim...

Ha!, that's good:

Yeah I have to chase them off when they try to help me launch