The trades started to come back today. A large group assembled to go winging at Hickam - me, Kalani, Roland, Tim, Marvin, Erik, Jim, Arvin, Dennis, Harris and one other guy (that recently started coming out). Kalani got a new set of wings - Reedin SW2 in 6.0 and 5.2. Roland busted out the Cloud IX 4.2 (looked smaller than that). Really cool to see all these wingers out!
I did bring the demo Reedin SW2 4.7 that Jeff let me borrow - but there were holes in the wind and I already had a bunch of ups and downs with the 5.2 (maybe tomorrow the wind will have steadied out more).
I tried out the Insta360 harness mount today also. Interesting perspective, but I think I need to aim it lower.
From my track below, you can see the amount of north in the wind. Since it has been a while since I've winged in decent steady winds, I wanted to warm up - I focused mainly on turns today. The PNL185 actually gets up on foil easily, and I can turn it, but it does seem to want a wider turning arc. I think tomorrow I'll break out the Takuma Kujiras again (Marvin was using his Kujira 1440 today and he said he was having a much easier time compared to the Armstrong HS1850).
The wind was definitely better than any we've had recently (which really has been thermals) - but while I was out it was pretty weird (but super fun).
I'll have to look through the previous posts where I used the PNL185 to see what the top speed was. Tomorrow I think I'll use the Axis ART...
W:47/F:59/S:17
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