| The
flight is necessary to stabilize your dart in the air.
Flights are available in a vast selection of colors,
sizes and materials. There is no "correct"
or "best" flight shape. It depends on your
personal throw which flight to choose. Selecting the
proper flight for your darts is a trial-error process.
We will have a closer look at this in the darts tuning
section.
The most important rules for handling your flights are:
1)
Always use the same flight shape on all your 3 darts.
2) Always spread your flights. Look:
flat
flight: very bad! This flight is flat . Bad, bad, bad!
When you put new flights on your darts it is likely
that the result looks like this. You will have to do
some manual "spreading" work with every new
flight.
flight correctly spread: good! This flight is spread
correctly. You must spread your flights because only
this guarantees a proper flight of the dart.
The
flight shape in the pictures above is called "standard".
Other shapes are called "pear", "kite",
"electro", and many more are available. For
getting started you should use the "standard"
shape. |
Standard
Size
Flight
protectors are very useful. Their original purpose is enhancing
the durability of your flights. Whenever an incoming dart
strucks the flight of a dart already sticking in the board
this flight is in danger of being damaged. The flight protector
can almost eliminate this damage. Another benefit is that
flight protectors help keeping your dart spread -- which is
a necessity (as explained above). The negative point with
flight protectors is that they tend to get lost. When it pops
off a dart it is usually impossible to find on the floor later
-- it's just too small. Use flight protectors. You will have
to spend a few additional bucks a season, but the benefit
is worth the price.