Well, I finally got a chance to put my 18m Guerilla in the air today. Obviously, since we are talking about me, the only wind out there was from a cricket fart and I was all alone. I wisely brought along my leaf blower(made by Stihl) and used it to inflate in under 20 seconds. Good idea.

It was good, though, because I was able to make about 3 turns and tune it a little. Just with that little but, I can tell I'm going to love this kite! I may even be become an arc fanatic. But before I become a PL ARC fanboi, is there anything they WON'T do well?



Thanks for the trade, Smeagol! How is your end working out?

They aren't too good at cooking breakfast or cleaning up afterwards. Mine never cooks the eggs the way I like. ;-)

Bottom end on water especially if you're a fattie :bigok:

Awesome! That's longer than I ever flew it.

Second Kami on the bottem end comment. You can get so good bottom end out of them but you have to work hard to do it. Medium to high winds and they rock.

The sinking is the problem :D I bet with a floaty board (or on land!) they'd be much more like 'regular' kites on the bottom end...

I want an arc

Luckily, all our water is tied up in snow here, so you tend to sink less

Also, I had a brief moment of genius and brought along my leafblower to inflate the arc. It took about 15s, and it would've taken FOREVER to inflate it at 0-3 mph winds. I didn't even have to use the throttle, I just let it idle and it blew cool air inside.

I must get another.

Get a Black and Decker electric broom. Works fast, portable, no fuel, no exhaust pumped into the kite.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/19581040?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid...

They can be found on line fairly cheap if you dig around. I just bought a new one to replace our old one that we've been using for the past 5 yrs. We really only needed new batteries at this point but batteries cost more than the unit.

So we bought a combo kit. Blower and cordless weed eater with 2 batteries for about $65. Batteries are $35 each by themselves.