"John Smith" wrote in message
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You don't have to convince me of the advantages of a winch, after all, I'm
a winch driver. And I just *love* those catapult take offs. But as I said
in another post, you can't go cross country from the winch at every site.
At ours, for example, we mostly can't, so we use the winch mainly for
training. As landing practice is a major part of the student training, a
winch does reduce training cost tremendously. As you only need one launch
for an 8 hour cross country flight, tow cost isn't such a big problem for
cross country flying.

I don't argue against aero tow. There will always be time and places where
it's the best.

So why can't you get away XC from your winch?

Bill Daniels