In article ,
"F.L. Whiteley" wrote:

That's one interesting aspect to winching,
that the run does not necessarily require fully improved surfaces. A winch
could quite easily be located 1000-2000ft outside of the airfield boundary
provided there aren't any obstacles.

In fact that's what the field I learned to winch on was like. The cable
was about 5000 ft, but the runway itself was probably not much more than
1000 ft. The rest of the cable run was over rather undulating ground,
crossed by several creeks, with the track for the cable retrieve car
taking a nowhere near straight route.

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