kirk.stant wrote 2015/10/12 at 22:21:

You found us!

wasn't too hard :-)

We have talked about trying to get a winch demo at our field to find
out it we should look more carefully at a winch - but as we already
have 2 nice Pawnees, there is not much interest.

Fuel still too cheap? ;-)

(But I do love towing with the Pawnee... ;^)

Oh, I understand, however i'm not flying powered planes :-)

As an aside, one of the disadvantages of using aero tow is that
everybody gets used to 3000' tows and can't thermal down low! Even on
booming days I'll tow them through the house thermal at 2000' but
they will grimly hang on then release in sink, spot on 3000' agl.
Arrggghh!

Yeah. Arrggghh. I like the winch; it's more of a sport and it's training
your skills. And I also like to sit on the winch and launch my fellow
pilots!

But I will bring up your point at our next club meeting (tomorrow) -
maybe we can get some interest going.

Ah, and now, how did it work out?

Regards
Werner