At 14:30 23 March 2005, Mike The Strike wrote:
Let me try again - for some reason the Google version
got my post out
of order.

Here's the main thrust of my post - has any glider
pilot ever
successfully used the wing rock signal to speed up
a towplane that was
flying dangerously slowly?

deletion



Seems to me the question could be phrased better.
(If it is already dangerously slow, rocking the wings
could be disastrous.)

A better question might be, 'Are the signals useful
for speeding up or slowing down when the speed is
not really dangerous but is not the best or most comfortable?'.

Or, are these emergency signals or convenience signals?
The steering signal is not an emergency one. Certainly
the emergency release and the close spoilers signals
are emergencies; do we want only emergency signals?