At 01:00 25 February 2014, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 22:43 24 February 2014, wrote:

Now, I'll anticipate the next goofy scenario which is glider release
failur=
e.
Let's not carry all of this too far.=20
UH

Not so far into the past at the RAFGSA centre, Bicester UK budding
instructors on courses were required to simulate a fail to release at
both
ends and land behind the tug. I **** you not!


Back in the 70's we did a few trials, at Booke, of landing with the glider
still on tow (one of the times you do use low tow) and concluded that
regularly practicing that was far more likely to cause an accident than the
very rare event (don't actually recall ever hearing of one) of release
failure at both ends. Safer and easier to deliberately break the weak
link.