Before my time here. We did it again when the steel wire rope caught a tie down and made some sparks. The biggest fires have been set by the railroad.

Frank Whiteley

On Friday, February 1, 2013 9:02:47 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
I recall years ago when a soaring club in Colorado, USA dropped the winch

cable across overhead power lines. It started quite a grass fire!





"Bryan Poehler" wrote in message

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At 16:43 29 January 2013, kirk.stant wrote:

The St Louis Soaring Association is interested in setting up a winch demo



Kirk,



You probably know this but the BGA has a good web page on winch launching

safety at:

http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/saf...hlaunching.htm



Bryan