Does anyone use a tug tow hook that releases automatically when glider kites?
At 03:57 18 February 2014, Brian wrote:
That might be the scenario to build an auto release. it would require an
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ectronic gyro which any more is inexpensive and easy to implement along
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h the full back stick switch, if the Tow plane pitches down more than a
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tain amount (Maybe 20 degrees down pitch) and with full aft stick
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and auto release.
Brian
That might work but I suspect it would be impossible, in the real World, to
get a sufficiently high degree of reliability that we did not get more
accidents from innocent gliders be jettisoned at low altitudes than we
currently get from kiting accidents.
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