On 2/3/2016 11:36 AM, son_of_flubber wrote:
The best way to demonstrate slack rope recovery is to take your BFR on a
wave day with rotor in the pattern. Scenario based BFR.


Chortle! Writ with tongue near cheek, I'll guess...

But seriously, this may in fact be as realistic a scenario as Joe Instructor
and Joe Experienced-near-mountains Soaring pilot can devise. In my case I
expect it woulda helped demonstrate the validity of my post-BFR claim, "I
never get slack in the rope!" FWIW, upon the presence of "significant slack"
on gnarly days (gnarly being common in the foothills of the Rockies), I
maintained a slight out-of-turn (if any) heading, yawed "slightly away" from
the tug angle, matching as best as possible the tug's deck angle (slightly
less than his, if I'm higher - the usual case), and wait. Never had a back
release while so doing, & only rarely any appreciable yanks or subsequent
"sympathetic loops" as noticeable in the glider.

Bob W.