Have they changed that much? My ideas were trained into by BGA
instructors in the late 1970s.

Alas, but this discussion wasn't about winch launching. My fault for
letting it descend into something in which I have very limited
experience, and apparently with earlier generation equipment.

What I was responding to was this notion of how a glider might be spun
with coordinated controls during a winch cable break recovery. So let's
get back to that. In another thread.