The Wind Window

The Wind Window might sound complicated, but it is really just the area in the sky in which your kite can fly.

The edge of the window

Flying the kite around the edge of the window produces the least power. The simplest way to visualise this is to stand with your back to the wind and stretch both of your arms up so that you are pointing directly up to the sky. The positions where your hands are now is 12 o’clock – and that’s as high as your kite can fly. Now, imagining your hands are a kite, lower them slowly down until they reach the 3 and 9 o’clock positions. Your kite can trace this arc, and this is the outer edge of the wind window. Once a kite is flown to 3 or 9 o’clock, it will be resting on the ground.

The power zone

Flying your kite into the power zone will make it accelerate and produce more power. Now, remember when you traced that big arc with your hands? Imagine a smaller arc inside that one, and a smaller one inside that one, and so on, just like a rainbow. As the kite moves further into these smaller arcs, it produces more power. The way to do this is to fly your kite in a figure of 8 pattern.