On Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 8:15:04 AM UTC-6, Peter F wrote:
Actually if we had better designed winches Bill would be correct.

Unfortunately the gliding movement certainly in the UK, but also in Europe,
seems to have taken the "Easy" option of Skylaunch winches.
400hp and auto Transmission mean that the pilot has little control of the
airspeed during the launch.

Too fast? ease back, go even faster!

PF

Ah, so you took the American Approach. Nothing Exceeds like Excess! Or, there is nothing that cannot be improved with application of more cubic inches.

Steve Leonard