Is that something that happens to people?
Also how dependent is it on weather? Do you have to monitor the wind to know if its worth going out?
Quite weather dependent, but there are places around the world that have very reliable wind during certain seasons. My home area in BC is good almost every day in the summer. Brazil is fantastic all fall, etc
That happens very rarely like recently in Israel where they went out on a storm, and there was a very rare very-big gust. But extremely rare comibation of things that can go wrong.
Yes you need to monitor the wind. I'm kiting today for example.