{"id":2369,"date":"2009-06-04T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T10:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/de\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2023-12-21T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T19:48:06","slug":"einstellungen-am-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/adjustments-kite-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjustments on small kites"},"content":{"rendered":"The i'll be back<\/a>, the c'est la vie darling<\/a>, urban ninja the numbers<\/a> and also the sticky 3.7<\/a> are built a bit reduced compared to the other synergetic zero-wind kites: there's no Y-Line. This line sets the effective length of the X-Line and thus the tension or better the slack of the whole sail.\r\n\r\n
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The X-Line is located behind the sail between the leading edge connectors, there is no Y-Line on the small kites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n

Still, there are the remaining setups:<\/h2>\r\n

The bridle<\/a> set to heavy for relaxed, stable flights or set to light, resulting in agile, reactive flight characteristics.<\/p>\r\n

A shorter Z-Line (3 loops around the spreader) will stabilize the straight gliding by increasing the dihedral. With a longer z-line (1 loop) the now flatter kite will perform rather lively glides. The standard setup of the Z-Line is always 2 loops around the spreader, on any of our kites.<\/p>\r\n

While adjusting the Z-Line, the sail tension is usually compensated by the Y-Line. What to do with the small zero wind kites?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Shifting the leading edge connectors<\/h2>\r\n

The default position of the spreader-wing-connectors is indicated on the sail by the black mark. Or exactly: the X-Line between stopper and connector is facing the mark. This is standard on all our kites, viewed perpendicular to the leading edge.<\/p>\r\n

Shifting the stoppers up (towards the nose of the kite) increases the effective length of the X-Line, tensioning the sail a bit. The compact kites will glide faster. Or too fast, especially if they are new.<\/p>\r\n

Shifting the stoppers downwards will shorten the effective length of the X-Line, the sail will be relaxed, nice. The compact kites will glide slower, floating well balanced.<\/p>\r\n

Sliding these stoppers up or down is also handy to fine tune the symmetry<\/a> of a kite. In rare cases you can also intentionally set a tendency to turn in one direction, e.g. for special indoor flights.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Tension along the spine<\/h2>\r\n

This time very simple and for any kite: The more slack the sail is along the spine area (the tension between nose and stern), the calmer your kite will fly, whether big or small, delta- or wing-shaped.<\/p>\r\n

If you tighten the line at the nose a little until the sail is under a slight tension, the kite will become more agile as it will lift the nose faster. After a flatspin it's immediately ready to rise again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The sail of the small kites<\/h2>\r\n

A brand new small Horvath-Kite is a bit too fast because the even, planar Icarex fabric or Dyneema laminate is not able to touch a lot of air yet. That's why sometimes the leading edge connectors are a few millimeters below the mark on the sail, out of factory.<\/p>\r\n

It's good for any of our kites to hang it up into the wind for an hour or two to get a soft, smooth sail. Some rustling sound is ok. When done, you will slightly move the connectors to find your preferred, balanced flight characteristics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Small single line zero-wind kites can be adjusted for flying indoor or outdoor in larger space, and for high flights in some wind also. Setups for diverse flight characteristics of your small kites: bridle, leading edge connectors, z-line and sail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-und-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horvath.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}