EOLO Radsail 2.4M

First I have to say that currently I have flown only few kites...

I have bought my Radsail 2.4 after few flights with my friend's Magma 3.0 and other friend's 1.5 noname 2 liner. I've choosen this kite because the price was lowest (money/area ratio) in local shop.

At home:
First impression was great (my first kite), the kite comes in cheapish but usable rucksack. Kite, lines and handles in main pocket and paper manual, DVD and sticker in side pocket.

Manual isn't very useful at all. DVD was much more descriptive with basic introduction "how to fly".

Handles was simple aluminum curved tubes with soft foam grips. Grips slides on the aluminum tube over time. Ropes in the handles was protected against pruning by pieces of soft plastic tube (which fell out of tube first time I flew the kite - so useless).

All lines was same lenght but each with different colour (will be useful if there will be one colour for main lines and another for breaks). Seems ok to me.

The kite itself seems ok as far as I can say.

In air:
It has almost same pull as friends 1.5 noname 2 liner (big big disappointment) and much lower pull than Magma 3.0 The side ends of kite keep flapin in the wind like mad Kite usually kink up in the middle while turning, especially in low winds. The shape looks very creasy all the time.

But it flies! It looks terrible but still it keeps in the air when others go down. In 8ms+ winds it works awesome and it pulls more than enough for beginner. Kite is nicely responsive and fly even with that terrible kink in the middle or when 1/2 kite drags on the ground (bad timing). The kite seems to be losing lot of speed and responsivity by approaching edge of the flight window (comparing with magma 3.0).

Conclusion:
Overall impression isn't so bad. It is ok kite to learn basics and have enough pull in good wind. The price is nice. Maybe there are other cheap beginner kites with better quality?
 

By : synek_petr