Slightly off topic, but how about this for a Rev...
Apparently it's going to be in (or was in?) the
2005 AKA Great Kite Auction.
nic wrote:Is this just a matter of personal preference?
Yup.
nic wrote:Also, any tips on how to undo 10 years of 2 line flying habits so as to fly teh Rev properly?
Practise, and then you'll end up combining some of the elements of two line flying with that of quad flying anyway.
At Brighton I was chatting to Steve Brill and Andy Wardley about how I was getting into stopping a Rev in mid-flight and at the exact moment I stopped the kite throwing it into a 90 degree turn. "Just like a two line kite" they commented. It wasn't until later as I mulled this over in my mind that I realised that it's easier to stop a two line kite in mid-flight by throwing in a snap turn to stop it. On a Rev the converse is true, it's easy to stop a Rev during
any point in its travel without the need to throw in a turn.
I like flying the standard 1.5 Rev on standard spars in a fairly strong wind but with
lots of brake line on. Inverted flic flacs and upright flic flacs become a doddle (relatively speaking) but this is more during my times of 'throw it around the sky and
take no prisoners' approach rather than the carefully crafted formation of a nineteen person mega-team fly.
My flying technique depends on how I feel at the time. If I have lots of energy to use up and the winds there I'll really go for it. Otherwise I can stand in one place and hardly move my feet doing gentle precise things - ahhh...
Brian