No mention of the pilot's previous experience with winch / autotow
launching

KN

At 05:30 21 June 2013, wrote:
Le jeudi 20 juin 2013 21:53:31 UTC+2, Steve Leonard a =E9crit=A0:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/br...13X31821&ntsb=
no=3DWPR12FA010&akey=3D1
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Happened to be looking through the NTSB Database and saw that they
update=
d the report about a month ago.

It looks like they tried to more or less duplicate an old commercial by
Mic=
helin, where you saw an ASK-21 being auto-towed on a frozen lake. The
glide=
r went brutally up on a very short rope and released almost immediately.
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en the car came to a braking halt just in front of an obstacle, while the
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lider was flying away. It was to illustrate the grip of a "Drice" winter
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re... I can't find it on the web anymore. Some small stills are visible
if
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you google "Michelin Drice" for images, but the links are dead.