Bill,
Aside from your rude remarks and your inability to admit your mistakes
on several points (an automatic transmissions do not operate like a
cruise control), etc.....I have only posted that an article on winch
safety came out and was making people aware of it, nothing more. And I
am not the author either. However, the accident stats and their
carefully determined causes are what they are. So are the real world
experiences in a variety of gliders described in this thread suffering
from too strong initial launch acceleration. And they were not only
with types of planes that you think it can only happen to.

Dick Johnson's own words:

"...be careful of high initial tow acceleration..."

Now let me ask you a question for once: What rope tension, measured in
g do you recommend for the first seconds of the launch? Or do you
advocate RPM controlled winches over tension controlled ones?