Love my Tepui Ayer RTT, used it for three months last year camping , fishing, hiking Northern New Mexico and Colorado. It's like anything else there are trade offs. Some things I have done in the past overland trip seem to minimize the situation:
Watch the weather before heading out or going to bed. possibility of storms, cold fronts etc. remove all the window rain fly rods-basically reducing the overall size-less to flap around.
My Tepui RTT has "D" rings mounted on the underside of the tent- build using a small pieces of chain, large turnbuckle and snaps -attach from the tent bottom to a support frame and tighten as needed.
Tepui also make an Alum fabric cover, that basically covers/encloses the entire tent-I just received mine today, easy to slip over the tent-again reducing what the wind can get a hold of and flap around.
Note: I had winds come up while I was in the sand dunes on south padre island in February in access of 50 MPH -tightening the straps down on the rain fly did no good. flapping caused the straps to simply continue to work loose. This caused damage to the fly and the tent area where the poles actually slip into small pockets-good thing i had researched the tent manufacture and noted their warranty on seams, and also noted their exclusive-Zipper Gimp-they replaced the entire cover/canopy I simply unzipped the old and zipped on the New cover-no charge.
Heading out in two days for another 6 month overland adventure-Northern New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.
Bob
