Long Beach LI **flight school - Buggy Baptism !! **
04/25/15
So Wendy and I met up with Brandon/Abkayak down at Long Beach. Long Beach is a south facing beach. Winds were out of the west most of the day, so I
used that time to get Wendy flying static. It was a great time as she flew solo for the first time without ever crashing the kite. Don't know initial
wind speed but she could not hold down a 2m fb it was blowing so hard. So I let her fly my 1m profoil. Again she did very well. She learned how to
reverse lauch and has become proficient at packing and unpacking. So now I put her in a harness and let her fly the 3m Apex. The throw on this kite is
a bit long for her causing her to always pull the bar in. However she did very well here also and seems to prefer depower. She even caught a little
air unintentionally.
learning to fly
Eventually Brandon showed up as the winds shifted dead on and we got some good runs in. Brandon was on his 7m Apex and I was flying the 12m Phanny. Of
course I left my GPS at home but I am positive I topped my personal best yesterday. The beach was filled with little hills almost like mini dunes.
Made for some exciting riding. Winds had to be 20mph or so. One of my best kiting days ever.
Static flying a 3m Apex III
The end of a great day !! Of course I found all the puddles on the beach, hence the soaking wet pants.... :D
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
Sweet! You can always turn on kite tracker app or similar if you forget gps. That's all I use in fact. A separate gps unit would take away from
hard earned kite money.
Sweet! You can always turn on kite tracker app or similar if you forget gps. That's all I use in fact. A separate gps unit would take away from
hard earned kite money.
Sean that had been my intention all day but when the wind came on it was time to git some !!
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
Yeah, it was great. Anytime you leave with sand in your mouth from getting splashed while smiling, you know you had fun.
Bob, it was gusty but manageable. I could feel it but it was never scary.
You can see me getting snatched around a bit. That combined with the mini dunes was awesome. The 12m was right in the zone. It must have inflated in
20-30 secs.
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
Pansh Ace 5.0 X2
North Husky 6.0
PL Guerilla 13, 18
PL C-Quad 2.3, 3.2, 4.2
Home made Rat Buggy
Libre V Max on barrow Plus wider taller sand tires & bigfoot front end
Blades Of Death, \"thanks Fran\"
Haven't buggied with it Dave but you can see in the video it's pretty stable through the window. Predictable and easy to fly. Would like to shorten
the throw if I could.
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
Pansh Ace 5.0 X2
North Husky 6.0
PL Guerilla 13, 18
PL C-Quad 2.3, 3.2, 4.2
Home made Rat Buggy
Libre V Max on barrow Plus wider taller sand tires & bigfoot front end
Blades Of Death, \"thanks Fran\"
Howard - used to be KC67
Fly: A quiver of Lynx' and Cores (did someone say "Pansh"?), a couple o' Arcs, and a Rev to remind me about control
Ride: PL XR+
Where: 43.857899, -78.941661 and 38.970951, -74.828922
She has the bug just like us. Keeps the kite in the car and jumps at any chance to fly. She gets out a lot on her own. She now has a 16m Venom.
So hopefully some buggy action will soon follow....
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
2016 Nobile Zen Hydrofoil with Infinity 5.1' splitboard
2019 Nobile 2HD with Ronix One boots
2020 Nobile NHP split foil with Ronix Parks boots
MG Supra ......... pulling KiteTrike
Well we were fortunate to have some great winds this weekend. With Wildwood a few short weeks away, Mrs.Cheezy was itchin' to pop her buggy cherry. So
Long Beach it is... It was a day of firsts for her. First Arc flight and 5 mins later, first seat time... :D
Some encouraging words...
Ready, set...
She's off...
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
All in all a great first attempt. I am not the best teacher, but by the time we hit Wildwood she will have an idea of what is going on. I'm sure she
will come home a better pilot as there is a lot of buggy knowledge at WW.
US888
PL- Aero v1 11m / Phantom 6/9/12/15/18
Ozone Chrono v2 9m
Liquid Force Elite 6.5m
Flysurfer - Peak 3 4m
PKD - Century 2.5m, Soulfly 3.5m
Ted's Profoil-1m/3.5m
Custom NABX Rev
GT Rapide V/VTT-XR+ Special
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