On 19 July, 16:54, bildan wrote:
On Jul 19, 4:30*am, Derek Copeland wrote:

Just to emphasize John's point about a properly set up automatic gearbox
giving smooth and imperceptible gear changes during a winch launch, see if
you can hear the gearchanges in this video of a new Skylaunch winch in
action at Lasham?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqhzcXZqzg

Derek Copeland

Opening the throttle like a little old lady will mask shifts on any
transmission. *This obviously depends a great deal on the winch
operator opening the throttle very gingerly.

Bill,

You seem to have difficulty coping with the fact that whatever
preconceived idea comes into you mind is not necessarily a fact.

The fact is that