"Ian Johnston" wrote in message news:cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-uRi7CmzCveOr@localhost...
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:19:55 UTC, (Tom Seim)
wrote:

: 2. An immediate check of each control linkage after hookup.

Which I always get someone else to do.

I have mixed feelings about this. Nobody knows your glider as well as
you do (save, perhaps, by someone flying-or flown-the identical
model). I certainly am not going to trust my life to someone who is
unfamiliar with my glider.

Additionally, flying a motorglider, I am often times the only one at
the airport, so I have to do the complete assembly unaided.

It wouldn't hurt to have someone else review the assembled glider
after you had done all of your own checks, however.

BTW: I check my Hottellier connections by simultaneously pressing on
the release plunger and pulling on the rod. Of course, the connection
has to be safetied first. I know of accidents where the connection was
only part way on, passed a PCC, only to come off in (attempted)
flight.

Tom