Pilot controlling speed on Winch Launch:
- Another thing that speaks against pulling to slow down is this that
if the winch driver does nothing when you pull, the speed can only be
slowed temporarily by pulling.

So you may slow down on certain set ups and aircraft, by you have to
ease off on the extra pull over normal pretty soon, at which point
you'll speed up again. So what's the point? You're just slowing down
temporarily only to speed up again, or release prematurely by breaking
the weak link or having the back release release earlier.

Pushing over when to slow should be done anyway, for safety reasons.
So no argument there. But unless the winch driver changes power
settings, nothing will change. He's in charge.

I also am more inclined to believe that oscillating by the pilot to
influence airspeed, the way Bill Daniels advocates, will result in
lower release altitudes than using the KISS method.