Revolution Forum: HedgeWarden - Viewing Profile

katrina, on 23 May 2012 - 12:16 PM, said:

Katrina,

You've already provided some good facts from experience to correct some bad conclusions I may have drawn from theory - or more to the point, dangling questions.

As for "good luck" - go break a leg. (Really trying to make a joke here. Did not mean the original post in an ironic or sarcastic sense.)

See you and the rest of the gang in Lincoln City, if we can get ourselves organized.

Katrina,

I don't understand why the VOX would not work for you. Is it a problem with the delay - e.g. when you say "NOW!" and the VOX kicks in on the "W"? That I would understand.

I would not expect much battery life in continuous transmit mode, though.

As for the privacy codes - they are transmitted at the beginning of a transmission. If a receiver is set for code 0, or to the same code as the transmitter, then it will turn on its amplifier (i.e. you can hear the message that follows the code transmission.) Otherwise, the receiver will ignore messages with a different privacy code than what it is set to.

Each brand and/or model may have different privacy codes, or no privacy codes at all - the codes are not specified by the FCC. So, it is essential for everyone to use code 0, or no code, as you said.

Good luck, and keep us posted with facts instead of this theory stuff.

Question:

Are you using standard handles (same length leaders top and bottom) or B-series type adjustable handles (longer multi-knot top leader)? Using a longer top leader provides more reverse force (or brake), and can diminish the tendency to over control the bottom lines. With good balance between top and bottom lines, inverted hover and flight is easier.

RevWizard, on 24 April 2012 - 04:38 PM, said:

I call it "inside out" because to correct it, I pulled each wing back through the bridle - like fixing a shirt that is inside-out.

But yeah - the effect is almost like having the sail reversed, except parts of the bridle upper legs are twisted on themselves.

Mad Mik, on 07 April 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

Well, I'm jealous that you are so quickly doing side slides! Took me much more than a month.

Upside down advice, from Bazzer, in a clinic: park your kite upside down on the ground. You must relax, music helps a lot. Pop the kite gently into the air, and land. Keep this up - RELAX - and try to increase the length of time in the air. Increase the height from very low, to TOP OF THE WIND window. Slide the kite side to side while upside down (pull right to slide left - like squeezing a watermelon pip on one side to make it pop the other direction). Well, the idea here is to develop "muscle memory", since flying upside down cannot be done intellectually.

BTW, rising inverted from ground to the top of the wind window will take quite a bit of practice. For me months, for you probably several days.

But the strangest part of flying upside down - once you get the hang of it, it's easier to hover and slide upside down than right-side up.

Fair winds,