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Thanks everyone:) Finally have some beautiful weather coming up in NY, so hoping to get those lines staked and see what's up.

I can easily deal with lines that are up to 3" off, but would prefer them to be exact. Not that it really makes my flying any better, but it eliminates the excuse... That being said, I'm not a precision flier. I just free-fly for the fun, whatever comes out, as long as it doesn't involve unintentional ground contact !

It is hard NOT correcting people when their set-up or tuning, even their assembly efforts could be improved upon. I want to just start changing things and then demand they fly inverted immediately too. See the sooner you get comfortable an inch above the ground (inverted) the sooner you'll own your hover. I see folks with tangled bridles or not install consistently side to side. I watch people attach their lines to the kite and then unroll 'em away. I never do that, I unroll from a single stake, separating the lines, determine which ones are tops and bottoms and THEN affix the kite when it's all laid out perfectly. That way nothing gets tangled. like if it's rainy, windy, wet sloppy mud and and/or a sand environment. How many times have I helped master-class fliers untangle their lines? My God what is with you folks? Learn a system that works in ALL conditions and stick with it. If your system is so good now then how come you need me to help you? I watch folks approach the kite on the ground and they are dragging' the handles along with them! NEVER do that, roll them lines up correctly or drag the stinking handles behind the kite (NOT on/thru sand though!) until you get to your new position. We see lots of folks visiting from around the world, down on the Washington Mall flying Occasionally they are flying quads, half of 'em have equal length leaders top & bottom and can't fly backwards. All the micro-control and cool tricks are hiding behind a big dose of "down" in the tuning. Filling the sail with pressure is the ticket 5 months out of the year in the mid-atlantic states. You have an unlimited ceiling with indoor conditions! You can't tune in forward drive, you're just dumping the pressure off of that angled sail,... no you need a big dose of "down" (reverse) in the tuning,..... then you have to MAKE it fly using your feet. I have actually angered dear friends by fiddling with their kite's bridle installation, or adjusting the tuning of handles. Eventually with more experience though, they want to pay me to modify all of their kites so they "feel" like mine do in flight. I need much more restraint until folks actually request my involvement, ... it's an ongoing struggle for me personally. "You're not doing it wrong, but you could do it so much better, HA!"

Wow, an inch would drive me crazy. I'm not saying it would be hard to fly, just that the difference in turns, speed and radius, with the same inputs would be very annoying to me, and I'm pretty lame with dual-line kites. I start looking for what makes a kite move differently to the left than it does to the right as soon as I discover the inconsistency. I don't want to deal with repairs, so I try to find the cause 'cause the cause may cause a crash. (the devil made me do it)

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@FranckPG If you think that's bad you should have seen my first week. Thank God no one recorded it!

TonyK If you want a visual example of what NOT to do on your first few flights you should checkout my video on YouTube aptly titled “Worst Rev Flight Ever - Day 2” Keep in mind that I did not seek out any help at all before I dove into this. I bought a EXP at the beach and went for it. So already, compared to me, you’re way ahead of the game. I just watched the video again for the first time in a while and here are a few things that pop out. THE KITE vs WIND CONDITIONS I had 15-20 mph winds for my first outings with the EXP. It was a bit of a struggle as can be seen in the video. A vented kite would made this a little easier. SETUP- Notice the leading edge is facing up. I had no idea but for safety reasons setup with leading edge in the sand. I used spars for stakes cuz it’s all I had. Tangled lines? Oh yeah that’s gonna happen just be very patient. STANCE - Wow am I stiff or what??? I know the wind was strong but for crying out loud man, relax. My legs are all over the place and my arms are flailing as if I was directing a plane onto the tarmac. Keep arm movement to a minimum, try to keep elbows in close to your body and concentrate on wrist movements, that’s what really guides the kite. If you checkout my video titled “rev flight fail with lucky recovery” you’ll clearly see that my arm movements do NOTHING to prevent the kite from going into the water. No need to white knuckle the handles. Relax your hands and try to control the handles with the tip of your fingers. I had so much fun that first week I spent hours on that beach. That’s the key really just have fun. I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong until I met some locals who had a few ( a lot ) of pointers to help me make things much easier to learn. If possible, before you head to Mexico get together with some local flyers and have them help you out, this will chop off many hours from your learning curve. Have fun and remember The one thing that the video doesn’t show is the huge smile on my face. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Quantum is a hard pulling kite, and in 15+mph winds, I'm not surprised the lines stretched. I have heard of Prism lines being off, right out of the box. Maybe as much as 6"... I would expect lines to stretch maybe 3". There is something terribly wrong if yours are off by 24", that's for sure. Like was said above, you need to stake these lines down, stretch them out and compare the loops at the other side. An inch or less of difference is what you're looking for, if the difference is more than an inch, you'll need to untie, adjust and retie. No fun, but it's gotta be done.

great kite for speed and make people looking up. is a real noise maker and on higher then 7 mph a tube tail is adding an extra WOW to. Mi wife love hers Citrus Quantum. one recommendation if i may, on winds higher then 15 mph be sure you use 200# lines.i fish last year the kite from almost a mile in lake Michigan after 150# line give up in 17 mph also do not loose your junior from your eye site and teach it to let go one line on front to hold on.

Success!!! Despite the bus like dimensions, this thing flies and exhibited pretty decentlow wind capability.. Video from Whalehead when I return home.

I’m in. I can pretend I’m sponsored as I flail around!