Night kiting

We are having 30mph winds tonight, but I think I would hit something - too dark for me...

Oh Yeah baby,

Couple important notes though, know the area, no lights, just moonlight and maybe a flashing light on your back so others can see ya, Your eyes will adjust better in total darkness than they will with a headlight or flashlight visible.

Never run flat out at night.

I just got some snowkiting in at the local park last week well after dark.

toss a few glow sticks in the cells of the foil and if need be for objects that might be in your way as warning

my cells have a mesh covering over them! They make glow sticks with hooks on them im thinking of hooking a couple on the lines. Using one color for each side.

Universal lighting.
Green lite is starboard (Right), red is port (Left).

...and then read about the UFO rports in the paper the next day, heh heh heh.

Night flying is great. El mirage, CA dry lake at night just the wind in your face and the stars in the sky.

Some of the best riding in Ivanpah is during a full moon. You can see the whole lake bed nearly as good as in the day. It is especially awesome during the summer time when day temps can reach well over the 110 mark. Night time is much cooler.

ok just every body knows a buttload of glow sticks to be able to see a kite at night! Walmart sells the bracelet kind for 88 cents. Buy ten of them they come two to a pack. It is cool!

I'm not sure of the lake bed thing, but at our beaches near the city, there's enough light comming from town to clearly see your kite even with no moonlight. I've had no problem seeing my darker coloured kites after the first couple minutes.

There's just something super cool about buzzing down the beach in the dark, with the city lights as a backdrop. WhiteRock, one of our local beaches has a trendy strip of restaurants and such along it, pretty busy at night. Just wild to have the waves crashing behind you, the night life in front of you and nothing in your way but wide open beach and the buzz in your lines.

I hear all this talk about the beaches, it makes me want to move to the coast. I would do it just to get some good kiting in!

Beaches are great, but if your stuck kiting in fields like I am be careful for ants. I sat to adjust my kite last night and sat myself right next to an anthill without even knowing. Im now stuck with well over 30 bites.... Still if there are good winds tonight ill be there with long socks on!

My mate was flying his kite one night and put glowsticks in it.

The following week there were actually UFO reports in the paper. :alien:

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Originally posted by acampbell ...and then read about the UFO rports in the paper the next day, heh heh heh.

Same thing happened to me with my kite! (except that was sort of my intention) I got a ton of those flashing lights that you put on a bike and some ring flashlights and lined the outside of my NPW with the ring lights about 1.5 feet apart with a flashing one between every other light (oh and a NPW is a great ufo shape to the untrained eye) Then i put one glowstick on the end of each power cluster. I went up to my local park and flew with a couple of friends. So we started flying it around and then after about 2 minutes of very ufo type flight i brought it down and kept brake tension so it would stay inflated on the ground (and still show off the lights) and thats when my (2) friends with flashlights and glowsticks came running out from behind the kite and ran all around the field screaming, then they ran behind it turned off the flashlights and hid the glowsticks and i relaunched the kite flew around for about 30 seconds and than ran behind a bunch of trees and landed and went home hoping someone had seen the show. (forgot to video it but it looked great) so my friend who lives right by the park saw the kite and freaked out (he didn't show up at school the next day) and it wound up in our school newspaper. OOOH good times good times.

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Originally posted by KYTE SLINGER toss a few glow sticks in the cells of the foil and if need be for objects that might be in your way as warning

did this this weekend... got lots of ppl pulling over to see the 'ship' in the sky... lol it was great

I still want to try the electric glow wire for rc helicopters.

past couple days(nights) I've hit the moon light rides,

no lights in the kite

one switchable light in the pocket

but no one to be seen for 5 mile runs

beautiful

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