In thermic conditions I release from tow as soon as I think I'm entering
soarable lift - I don't hang on until an arbitrary height like 2,000' is
reached. (I have been known to release at 700' - but my club now charges
for a minimum of 1,000' even if one releases earlier so I tend to go a
bit higher now - I might have become a bit wiser as well!)

Since I must release from the high-tow position to ensure adequate
clearance from the metal rings on the rope immediately after I release -
if I'm in low tow I must go up to high-tow first - by which time I'm
well past the lift and will probably fail to find it. Hence my preference
for high-tow during a launch into a soarable sky. During a retrieve I will
often go low-tow.


At 11:45 01 January 2011, Doug Greenwell wrote:

There do seem to be many advantages to low tow - I'm not sure why it's
not used much in the UK. On the Junior the rope apparently fouls the
nose
in low tow, so perhaps its a problem with some hook positions?