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Invertedforce / Paul Teeter

Des Moines, IA

I KNOW that my roommate joeblinky would love to get in on this too. Also, our close friend Adam (flyjump) would love to try it out. He's in Springfield, MO so if it's easier to send to him first and then to us, we can work that out.

Thanks! I hope we get on this list, I've been waiting for a charger pass

I'll stand between knolee and power when it gets passed along locally!

By the time that Charger makes the rounds to everyone interested here, PL will already come out with their new Contender, Corker and Carjack XL models!

:shocked2: I got the Charger today and it looks pretty nice.
Thanks Rip

:wee:

I think I will post a review on a separate post.

I just picked up the kite from rckmac123. I took the kids for a 1.5h drive... haven't had a chance to unpack the kite yet, but I took out the bar and promptly detached the suicide ring

Forcast is calling for calm wind and rain all week!

Ricardo, thanks for sending this around! Can't want to get it/me in the air!

Dear Ricardo, Thanks a lot. No really.

You made all my kites feel like crap.



Seriously, though. A tremendous thank you for the opportunity to test flight the charger. Today we got _very_ lucky... last good weather for a while thanks to a system from up north. The wind started off very light and in the wrong direction but it swung around and picked up. So I got to try the kite out from 6g9 to 17g22 In the buggy, on the landboard, trimmed in, trimmed out, strap tight, strap loose! Review to come.



But one quick word of advise. If you don't want to drop the dough to buy this kite, just take yourself off the list now. Save yourself the heartache from not being able to fly it more :Ange09:

I'm having a Molson just for you :bigok: (or maybe two)

Got the kite today!!! now... all i need to do is rustle up some wind and kick the soccer players off them fields...

Warning: The following is one persons opinion in one location (Idaho). The conditions are gusty where I'm at and this is what i found for inland "soccer field" flying:

Ok sounds good man! Well, I did enjoy the kite. It is definitely fast, and has great depower, actually... amazing depower. It was a bit tough comparing this 12m charger to my 15m syn. From what I had read, I thought that the 12m charger was the new 15m syn. I thought it was going to be able to give me close to the same pull and stuff. I think I had the wrong impression

I was able to get it out two days. First day it was about 18mph, gusty up and down maybe 5mph. This day it was fun but it wasn't as smooth of power that the syn delivers. In the gusty winds I feel as though it's not as smooth as the syn or older arcs. It could have been that I'm used to a larger kite but I kinda like the smoother power than the jerky feeling. IMHO I think that it's a bit squirrely for my taste . Maybe the 15m is less so, I'll never know! . but all i do know is that the 12m charger is definitely not the new 15m arc (at my location, gusty winds).

I never got to fly it in heavy winds but it was very stable and produced smooth power in the mid teens. My problem is that I have no other arc to compare it to, other than macboy 15m phanny I flew last week (in non-comparable winds). I used the charger in the buggy and on a board; in the buggy I was able to have it not produce much lift, which was reassuring, but on the board it would boost well. I really enjoyed the smooth power and progressive depower of the kite. Interested to hear BB's buggy review as he's got a quiver of comparason One think I never really got to do was to fly the kite powered into the window and let go of the bar. There was never really enough wind for me to feel how the kite depowers & moves to zenith.

As for the bar, I agree with BB, I didn't notice anything too special about it. The depower line was a bit dangle so it was getting wrapped up on the center lines which is usual unless the depower is at the chicken loop, which I don't much like. I found the chicken loop to be a good size, but it took a while for me to be able to reconnect the loop after releasing it. I got OK at it, but it would be a pain in the water as I needed to really push the the pin way up to get it closed properly. The one nice thing on the bar, which is really expected these days, is the adjustable stopper.

RIP,

Take me off the pass list........................after reading Phress comments the 12 wouldnt do it for me...................apppreciate your time and big ups to you for doing this for PKF members.........................

is the charger still moving around?