pleverr
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DC Area Riders - New Thread (and Trainer Kite help request)
Hi - I am new here! I just got my first trainer kite in the mail yesterday (Hydra 300) and I feel like a kid with a new bike that I can't ride.
I have yet to unfurl the kite and would like to do so somewhere near NE DC (Anacostia or other ideas) sometime in the next few days. I also go to
Bethany whenever I can get there.
I am also new to this forum and am hoping that starting a new DC thread will be helpful as the last one seems to have capped out at 35 pages and the
last post was in December.
If there is a new thread, please post it here or delete this one.
Here's my ask: Does anyone want to help me on my maiden voyage for an hour or so today or tomorrow? There is also Kingman Park on Capitol Hill that
might work.
Thank you in advance,
Paul
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3shot
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Registered: 2-14-2013
Location: Virginia
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Mood: Hot launching in 5..4..3..2..
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Welcome to the PKF!! Welcome to the mad addiction of power kiting!
I think there are a couple NoVa and SMd pilots in here. I hope they chime in here and give you a hand.
I'm about 3 hours south, down on the middle peninsula.
P.S. Say good buy to any extra money you thought you'd have!!
You've been warned 
HQ 1.8
Flexifoil Bullet 2.5
Flexifoil Petrol Rage 1.8
Flexifoil Acid Rage 3.5
Ozone Flows 3 & 5m
PL Comp 2K buggy with AWOC backrest
Hmmmm.... What's next?
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indigo_wolf
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Registered: 12-25-2008
Location: In a meat grinder, in Limbo...
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Mood: Weaned by leapords, raised by wolves...
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I think I am 30-40 minutes from Anacostia or Kingman Park.
I can probably free up Friday or the beginning of next week.
Kites and gear are still in the final stages of being sorted out from a recent move.
If the "I got a new kite" pangs won't let you wait, that's perfectly understandable.
ATB,
Sam
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, does anyone?" - The Body by Stephen King
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pleverr
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Registered: 5-21-2013
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Thank you for the responses. I took the kite out yesterday for the first time and failed. Perhaps it was lack of wind (I felt some gusts although i
was not on the water in Anacostia park, but in a field just off of the water as I wanted to embarrass myself in private).
So I chalked it up to learning how to unpack and pack my kite...which I am not very good at either...I hope I don't tangle lines up to the point of
ruining the kite.
It took me about an hour to untangle the 3 lines and it wasn't until I figured out that I needed to untie the middle line to untangle it that I was
able to start attempting to fly it.
Once I got it 2 feet off of the ground it would flip over and smack the ground. I did this about 20 times in various angles to the wind having the
most 'luck' with the wind to my back.
All-in-all it was a frustrating outing although I enjoyed learning.
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2 hours later
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After doing some reading I will need some lessons and possibly more wind and more patience. It is also possible I was trying to fly the kite upside
down.
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