Setting Up Your Kitep - F-One M5 Manual

SETTING UP YOUR KITE
Inflate your kite
Unroll your kite and position it so that one of its wing tips is located upwind from the other.
Place some sand on the upwind wing tip of the kite.
Before using the pump, operate it a few times to eject any sand left in the tube. This will
prevent any sand from entering the kite's bladders.
The first few times you inflate your kite, pump the air into each bladder until it is halfway full
and « massage » it in order to correctly position the bladder inside the strut. Finish the inflation until
the bladder is firm and full. Center struts are equipped with ball stoppers and side struts are equipped
with stop valves, thus no need to pinch the valves. Careful, do not try to push the valve inside as you
would do with an inflatable toy.
Inflate the leading edge bladder last. Remove the sand from the kite and stand with your back
facing the wind, attach your pump to your kite with a larks head knot using the connector next to the
leading edge valve. Pump until it's firm and wrinkle-free. Make sure the defaltion valve is properly clo-
sed and sealed off with the Velcro cover.
Place your kite on its leading edge with the struts pointing downwind and secure it putting sand
on it.(1)
Connect your lines to your kite
Untangle your lines and put your bar down, with the F-one logo facing up. (2) Untangle the 5
line and place it underneath the front lines. Connect the 5
lines to the gray front connectors of the kite. You need to do a lark heads knot with the connectors on
the kite. (4) Connect your back lines, green on green, red on red.(5) The front and back lines should
not cross each other's.
WIND DIRECTION
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