danny.. i dont think there is anything wrong with just asking.. if someone you have never seen before asks you to launch them ask them "have you kited here before?"... good conversation starter.
plus i typically will walk up to someone and ask "can you launch me" and then walk back to my bar..
i ALWAYS ask whomever I let launch my kite "do you know how to launch a kite? have you done it before?"
even with them saying "yes" to both statements I had one very near kitemare due to some idiot launching me before i gave the thumbs up..
also.. I was the idiot once when I thought I knew how to assist bayflite in a launch on his ram-air kite. luckily the winds were not high and he was able to recover from my misunderstanding of what needed to be done to launch those kites. (i had seen Trent launch his numerous times and thought i knew how to do it..)
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