Capita Aeronaut Snowboard Review

The Capita Aeronaut walks that line and is able to strike a great balance between many different factors

It's an easy enough going ride, but can take a fairly aggressive approach, when you feel for it - and I found it to be super versatile across different conditions and for different riding styles.  

In this review, I will take a look at the Aeronaut as a mellow freeride snowboard.

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Aeronaut a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other mellow freeride snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: CAPiTA Aeronaut

Price: $699

Style: Mellow Freeride/All-Mountain

Flex Rating: Medium (6/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium (6/10)

Rating Score: 85.0/100

Compared to other Men’s Mellow Freeride Boards

Overview of the Aeronaut’S Specs

Check out the tables for the Aeronaut’s specs and available sizes.

Who is the Aeronaut Most Suited To?

The Aeronaut is best suited to those who want a versatile board that is more tuned towards freeride/powder than it is towards freestyle, but is still great for jumps and something that doesn't require an overly aggressive input to ride, but also is beefy enough that it can take it, if you do want to give it a bit more of an aggressive input. 

Would make a really good one-board quiver for the right rider - and would also be a really good compliment to a quiver, paired with a park/freestyle board and/or a powder specialist and/or a more aggressive or more playful all-mountain board. 

It's what I would call fairly easy going, but not super easy going, and while it doesn't demand perfect technique or high energy input all the time, it's also not beginner easy to ride, IMO. But should work well for intermediate (and up) riders. 

TEST/REVIEW DetailS FOR THE Aeronaut

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Aeronaut is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: CAPiTA Aeronaut 2025, 155cm (250mm waist width)

Date: March 6, 2024

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: While I wouldn't call it beginner level easy to turn and the tail doesn't slash out like a looser board might, but it's still on the easier side to initiate turns and not much effort needed to slash out tail. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: Really decently agile. I wouldn't say lightning quick edge-to-edge at slow speeds and I wouldn't say effortless edge-to-edge transitions, but better than average slow speed agility and only low effort required.

Catchiness: It's not what I would call catch-free, there was some catch-feel in there. But it was something that I would call a low risk of catch. 

Carving

Lots of fun for slower speed carves but had its limits in terms of high speed carves. But up to certain speeds I found it locked in an edge well - but that edge would wash out when there was higher speeds/force applied. 

Speed

It's not an out and out bomber or anything, but it can handle a good amount of speed, before it starts feeling shaky. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: It does feel a fair bit of chatter and isn't immune to being thrown around a bit, but II found it damp enough to not be super chattery and was able to remain stable most of the time.

Trees/Bumps: Felt good when weaving between trees and moguls. Good agility and good edge hold helped. And in the more powderful areas of the trees, it felt good and should hold up to deeper powder pretty well too. 

Powder

There was some around on the day and the Aeronaut felt good in it. As mentioned above, I think it would hold up in deeper powder decently well. Not going to be a top tier powder board or anything, but by feel and specs, should be above average in the pow. 

Jumps

Real fun! Good mix of stable and agile for approach and landings and good balance between ease of access for pop and total pop. 

Pop: I found I could get a good bit of pop out of the Aeronaut without much effort and then there was more to be found, when I put the effort in to really load it up. I wouldn't say it's top tier in terms of either ease of access or total pop, but it strikes a really good balance between the two factors. 

Approach: Just right, IMO, in terms of being stable enough, but at the same time maneuverable enough to make any necessary adjustments on the jumps runway.

Landing: Again, it gets it right here, IMO. It's got enough stability on landing, that you can stomp landings and that it can handle bigger jumps and isn't going to put you into an involuntary tail press too easily if you land tail heavy - and while the tail is on the smaller side, there's enough there to absorb and help to recover from tail heavy landings. And it's also got reasonable forgiveness for recovering from landings that end up a little skewed as well. 

Side-hits: Good easy access pop, decently maneuverability - and everything else mentioned about jumps above, made it great, in my experience, for side-hits. 

Switch

While it's not ideal, with a shorter tail than nose, 5mm of taper and a setback stance, it's still pretty decent. And while transitions didn't feel catch-free, I never felt like there was a high risk of catching an edge. 

Spins

I really enjoyed spinning this board. Setups were easy, there was some good easy pop to be had and it was capable without too much catch risk to finish an under-rotation after landing but also didn't over-rotate after landing. 

Not ideal in terms of taking off/landing switch, with its more directional shape - but also nothing that felt super weird or off-putting either. 

Jibbing

Not terrible but not ideal either. Not made for this, but if you want to take it over some jib features, it's certainly doable and nothing that feels too sketchy or weird or anything.  

Butters

I found it fairly easy to get a press going on the tail and nose and while the nose and tail certainly felt a bit different to each other, they weren't worlds apart in feel. 

Rotations were good too - not catch-free but a pretty low-catch risk. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

The Aeronaut is a super versatile board that was able to handle a variety of conditions really well and a variety of riding styles.

It's certainly more oriented towards directional riding and freeride/powder than it is freestyle, but for the mellow freeride category, it's more on the all-mountain side of the spectrum - and was sick for jumps, cliff drops, popping off rollers, etc.