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Peter Lynn Phantom 6
The Phantom from Peter Lynn is a bridle-less, self inflated twin-skin foil which can be used for, snowkiting and landboarding. It is designed with a very high aspect ratio and hence should give good upwind performance and huge amounts of lift.
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A Peter Lynn Phantom 6 review by Adamski:
You MAY have heard of these Phantoms, they are the flavour of the month on the forums and everyone seems to have a view. It matters not if they have flown them.
I was happily flying my 7.3 and 9.5 Frenzies, putting up with the constant collapsing in the gusty inland flying areas I have to use most of the time. My local shop got a
15m Phantom on two week demo and I was first in the queue for a play!! One week later and my frenzies were gone, being replaced with phantoms.
I now have the 6/9/12 & 15
This is about the one you will probably NOT see too often the 6m Phantom. Peter Lynn give it a wind range of 20- 35 Knots and DON'T advise it for water use at all.
I can see why, the thing is awesomely fast and could get mighty out of control in the winds you would need to make it work on the sea!
It comes in an Orange rucksack with a stylised Phantom screen printed on the back, the sack is expandable for leaving the spars fitted for a fast packdown.
There are many and useful straps and clips on the exterior, including a board holder which can be hidden away when not required.
The spars are a bone of contention, they are great because they are lightweight Carbon Fibre but SUCK quite badly because they split strands off which
lodge painfully in your skin!!
As with all the other Phantoms they are available as Kite only or ready to fly. Kite only means you get the kite, spars, rucksack, instructional video
(why not a DVD?) and best of all, a Phantom t-shirt. Ready to fly is all of the above but with a Zero4 bar and a set of nicely colour coded lines.
Each phantom size is available in only one colour, The 6m comes in a warning red!! They are all a 6.5 Aspect ratio making them about as extreme as it gets.
If you have never set an Arc up before you will be about to wonder if you did the right thing my first set-up took about half an hour!!! Once you have the
knack it takes only a few minutes longer than a traditional foil. The 6m is the easiest of the lot, VERY easy to self launch and land due to it being TINY
and so easy to inflate in the wind it requires to fly.
Each kite also has a recommended bar length, the 6 metre kite having the tiny 40cm bar, there are HANDLES on the market which are longer than this!!
This bar has JUST enough room for a large hand on each side, it is very easy to start one handed flying with this bar as it is an easier grip by far.
The 6 is oddly the kite that flies in the lightest wind!! It has NO power but it stays up and becomes the worlds largest stuntkite, really good for improving
technique. I assume that this is down to it light weight and super high speed in the air creating lots of apparent wind.
Once filled and launched the small Phantom behaves wonderfully, even in high and gusting wind. When bridled foils are falling out of the sky in the lulls
and gusts the P6 stays up above your head even after landing a jump. I have heard the p6 described as "a super ten on steroids" and this is about right!!
It zooms about above you BUT it is also more than capable of lifting a grown man 6ft plus in the air when powered up!! Do NOT take it lightly just because it's small.
The 6m was the first Phantom that I tried flying "unhooked"! set the power starp to about halfway, and unclip!!! Flying with it hooked in lets you forget the energy
these things produce! Loads of fun without the depower, just holding on!
We have also found that due to the tiny bar and its speed the 6m makes a great buggy kite too! I sat and watched one of the guys on our flying site picking up
some mighty impressive speed when hooked in, he seemed to think it would be great for buggy freestyle!
Would I advise you bought one? NO I would advise you get a demo on one first, if you need a high wind kite and think a depowerable one sounds like the best
option for you then have a go. If it doesn't suit you it will be an expensive mistake!!
That is the final point. Criminy these things are not cheap. £540 for a high wind kite!! Yet another thing that makes them for the committed (or single!!) flyer!
Adamski, 13/09/2004
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