FliteLab AMP Board: Disappointing

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Try a negative 1 degree shim with the 140 tail it’s epic!! Love the 125 as well in great conditions.

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Thanks for this Rich. Have never tried anything but the neutral shim. Probably should play around.

I’ll give this combo a go.

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I disagree too. I’ve spent a lot of time on the AMP 4’2, and it does all of this and more.

It helps you catch waves earlier or further outside, get into fatter or weaker waves, and ride in marginal or almost flat conditions.

It’s also epic in wind, chop, downwinding, winging, parawing, and so on.

I would say you need a fair foiling baseline to get the most out of it, or really helpful if you’re learning to prone. It sounds like you can already prone, so I’m surprised you didn’t feel any benefit.

For me, it’s far more rewarding and acceptable than a prop assist.

I don’t own one anymore, and I really do miss it. I could only afford one assist, so I’ve gone back to a prop assist because it covers even more poor conditions, (which I have locally). It’s way warmer being on prop when it’s freezing cold! With two kids and not much time, it’s nice to bang out 40+ waves in a quick 45 minutes when I don’t have time for a prone sesh or surf.

It’s a shame FliteLab didn’t bring the prop out at the same time to give people the option to mix it up.

The gear is definitely worth the money. It’s a beautiful piece of kit.

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always pretty obvious that beginners wouldn’t be able to get the most out of it because you need to be able to transition from power to self power quite seamlessly.

from what I’ve seen on Foil Drive, most beginners can’t even transition from motor to pumping, let alone timing takeoffs onto waves under power, let alone do a relatively technical prone popup:

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Reflecting on what your AI wrote, I wondered what your expectation of a foil assist is, and then what an Efoil is? Because your points at the end are entirely wrong. Earlier fatter marginal waves is the literal design brief of the amp, and per the video .

I see some almost mutually exclusive definitions forming which kinda makes sense

  • Prone assist: only helps you paddle

  • Foil assist: can motor on foils, but motor can come out the water

  • Efoil: motor stays in the water

I would happily see prone assists gain more popular, and see less of people buzzing around on foil.

In my eyes Amp is the perfect prone assist, as demonstrated in this video (subtweeting this thread)