At 00:18 19 January 2008, Cats wrote:

The stiffness of the steel wire prevents such an event.

That's partly why the strops our weak links are attached
are inside
some kind of plastic tube. I have a feeling the BGA
recommends this
but I can never find stuff on their website, so don't
know if I'm
imagining that.



From the BGA website

http://www.gliding.co.uk/forms/lawsandrules.pdf
Page 52, RP (Recommended Practice) 7



Gavin
Std Cirrus, CNN now G-SCNN, #173