Safety of winch launch vrs. aero tow?

What in-air signals? I had no radio, but even if I had it was clear that the
tug pilot was having an interesting day, so I wouldn't have wanted to
distract him.

Fortunately this was in East Anglia in the UK, so there was a constant set
of fields each about the size of a normal gliding club site.

"Shirley" wrote in message
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Chris Reed wrote:

We climbed (very slowly) to 400ft and then
stayed there while we flew in a straight line at
least 3 miles from the airfield. It's the only time
I've been field spotting on tow for such a long time.

Not suprisingly, I failed to soar once we reached
the release height of 2,000 ft

Was it not possible for you to use the in-air signals to steer the tow
pilot
back toward the field?