Roger Worden wrote:
OK, I'll ask. What's a "Pay out winch launch"? You mentioned a truck... the
speck on the ground seems to be moving... I'd call that an auto-tow.

It's a truck with a reel of rope. The tow starts with a short length of
rope out, and additional rope is payed with a controlled amount of
tension as the launch progresses, then reeled in after release. This is
pretty commonly used with hang gliders, pretty rare for traditional
gliders. I'm not sure what the advantages are, though it does seem to
minimize the amount of time needed to launch off a shared use runway...

Marc

"WAVEGURU" wrote in message
oups.com...
Here's a link to a video of us doing a 2500ft launch at the Alvord
Desert, Oregon, USA. We go to this 8X15 mile dry lake in SE Oregon
every July. The lake bed is at 4000msl and Steens Mountain rises out
of the western edge to 10,000ft msl.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...75948480774460


Gary Boggs