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Got some spare spars today along with new Icarex.. 8 Frames worth

I've grown tired of attaching and detaching my lights, so I'm building one for a permanent home. Fingers crossed. 11 panels (5/1/5). Based roughly on the B-series because of the straight lines, but slightly different dimensions to help with the weight of the rig, plus some other refinements. Planning on midnight blue, fluorescent green, and white/reflective trim. The lights will ring the kite and be held in with the sheer trim. Here are the lights in action, held with packing tape on a Djinn.

Learning to control the powered state by light wind The “powered control” during “pulsed mode forward flight” tugging (as discussed in the previous post) on the lines can also be approached from a different direction. As a believer in approaching learning from many directions, contexts, conditions and kites I can see a value in piloting the Rev Indoor also in (quite) light wind, making it just slightly over powered (giving a lump-of-butter-in-the-frying-pan feeling of little-input-in-much-output-out, but still hopefully in control). You can then get used to this powered state of the Rev Indoor without needing to focus on pumping the kite/tugging on the lines. The “light wind” I refer to here doesn’t make 360ies close to the ground difficult, but is enough to bend the Rev Indoor LE when flying forwards a bit up from the ground. So the next time these low wind conditions are offered, don’t curse them for not being proper indoor conditions, instead rejoice that you now can practice this aspect of kite piloting – beneficial both for indoor and (std) outdoor quad-line kiting. I’ve heard expressions like "flying brake heavy", "load the sail" ( ) or "feeling the pressure". The latest expression I’ve heard is “flying on brakes” on a power kiting forum ( https://kiteforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2401189 : “What it means is to generate the maximum power from that kite you have to keep some pressure on the brake lines.” (more than only to avoid trailing edge fluttering I would believe). There is no separate set of laws of nature for an indoor kite, just the requirement that you must be a little more efficient in the usage of the wind (that you in this case mostly generate yourself). I sense a similarity here, both for power and indoor kiting the kite should generate pull (and/or make efficient use of the wing) and is most often moving forward. Artistic hovers – not so much in either discipline. However in no/low wind the conditions around the (indoor) kite will rapidly change with your tugging the lines and changing tempo/power input and of course you need to constantly compensate for this.

Absolutely try! Don’t know If the Nexus comes with a Manual or Field Card, if so check it out if haven’t already. But the general rule for duallies: pull in the nose in lighter winds. Simple as that. Some kites have adjustment knots at the top of the bridle. Some Prisms have you do it in a range between two knots on the bridle; believe sometimes they are even labeled (such as on my Prism Quantum anyways). But the principles are the same -- shortening the line that goes to the nose (or lengthening its counterpart). If feasible on this kite you could even wrap the upper bridle leg once round the upper spreader on both sides. Kinda crude, but a quick way to experiment and see what it does. May be overkill. A very brief search did not turn up a kite specific manual, but Prism’s generic “Two Line Flight Manual” is a good read on this under the tuning section: https://prismkites.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Dual-Line-Manual.pdf There are also other effects of tweaking the bridle including responsiveness and whatnot. Get to know thy bridle. It is a lifetime journey 😉 I expect others will chime in with more thoughts. .