On Monday, June 16, 2014 12:15:07 AM UTC-7, Jim White wrote:
May I offer a practical tip? Talk to yourself all the way up the launch to

a safe height (perhaps 500ft), deciding where you will go at every moment

should the rope / tug break. Should it then happen you already have the

decision made and only have to execute it well.



If you, or your trainee, start to do this every launch you will be amazed

at what poor decisions you would make to begin with. These get better with

the doing of it.



Jim


Delightful. Since it was about a hundred posts ago I offered the same concept, may I say, "Thank you."
I am heartened to know that there are others out there who prefer to be prepared and updating their situational awareness during launch, rather than becoming off-launch and then begin 'assessing' the choices.

If the assessment is ongoing, the execution of the 'best choice' becomes pretty relaxed. And if we fly to the landing, it is so much more likely to be survivable than falling to an impact.

Thanks, Jim.
Cindy B