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Flying Your Rev in a New Location: 3 Rules by Revolution Kites

Three rules for flying successfully in an unfamiliar place, shown in nearly windless central Florida: assess the place, make a plan, build on what works.

From the series Wind and places to fly. Transcript by QuadKites.org.

Flying Your Rev in a New Location: 3 Rules by Revolution Kites

Key takeaways from this video

  • Assess the place and the conditions, then put the wind at your back: a field that looks impossible is often flyable.
  • The plan is always the same: get the Rev up to feel how it flies, then bring it straight back.
  • At each landing, tilt the Rev back so it stays stable and ready to go again, instead of having to walk over and stand it up.
  • Then widen your flying little by little, repeating what works.

Transcript

  1. Rule 1: assess the location

    0:00

    I'm Joe Hadzicki, inventor of the Revolution. Today I'm traveling in central Florida, which is famous for no wind, so here are three tips to have a successful flight when you're flying at a new location. Rule number one: assess your location and the conditions. It looks like we've got buildings all the way around this small little field. In fact, there's a little water park off to the right. It's about 8 or 8:30 at night, so the wind is basically zero. It really doesn't matter. These conditions seem impossible, what I would have thought was impossible to fly, but they're actually probably flyable. The process is the same: analyze the situation, and get the wind to your back.

  2. Rule 2: make a plan

    1:41

    Rule number two: make a plan. The plan is pretty much the same every time we're flying a new location where we don't have any experience. Hop your Rev up into the air and try to get a sampling of the flying, and bring it back down. The important part is, when you bring it down, try to stabilize it. If you don't stabilize it, it falls over and you'll end up spending a lot of time resetting it, and that's not fun.

  3. Stabilizing your Rev

    2:02

    So let's stabilize it so we can keep getting it up in the air and testing the conditions. What I mean by stability is that once you land your Rev, make sure you tilt it back so it's stable and ready for the next launch. If it tilts and falls forward, you have to walk up and stand it up, and every time you do that it takes time, wastes time, becomes frustrating, and takes away from the fun of flying. If you learn to launch and land it so it's ready to fly again, you'll have much more fun and a much better experience.

  4. Rule 3: build on success

    2:44

    Rule number three: build on success. If you've launched it, you've landed, and you've stabilized it, now watch it again, move it around up there a little bit and get more of a feel for that wind, and then bring it down. What do you do? Land it and make sure it's stable, and then continue to build on that, and you will build your skills.

  5. Quick recap

    3:51

    Okay, a quick recap. Rule number one: assess the situation and your environment. Number two: make a plan. It doesn't have to be complicated, and the main component is to get your Rev up into the air just to get a sample of what's going on, and bring it right back down. And what's the most important part? Stabilize your Rev. You don't want it to fall over, because it's going to waste time and then it gets frustrating. Rule number three: repeat what you have success with. So you get it up there, you get a bit of flying, bring it back down, get it back up, expand that flying a little bit, and then bring it back down again and stabilize that landing.

  6. A mistake on this trip

    4:24

    I made one mistake on this trip. We kind of threw the trip together in a hurry and I brought a 1.5 sail instead of my normal XX Full Sail. I usually travel with the XX Full Sail and the XX Super Tarantula, so that I have all the wind conditions covered. The XX Full Sail would have been the perfect wing for this flying experience.

Keep going

In the series Wind and places to fly — Revolution Kites tutorials

  1. What Is the Wind Range of My Revolution? Tips and Tricks to Increase Your Wind Range
  2. Revolution Flying Strategy: Different Wind Conditions
  3. 3 Tips for Flying Your Rev in Small Spaces and Challenging Locations
  4. Flying Your Rev in a New Location: 3 Rules — you are here
  5. Urban Flying with Your Revolution
  6. Can You Fly Your Revolution Kite in Freezing, Sub-Zero Weather?
  7. Tips to Fly Your Revolution on Your Lunch Break

See the 16 videos of the series

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