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#11
July 13th 11, 08:01 AM
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tow rope brake practice crash, what can we learn...
On Jul 12, 3:11*am, Tony V wrote:
snip Forgot point number 3. You can't just point the nose down and start your turn back to the airport. You have to wait until you have enough airspeed to pull that off. Something that gets drilled into every winch student (I hope). Interesting. In my own glider a typical tow speed is somewhat above best l/d speed so the first things would be to lift the nose slightly and trim for approach speed. It's a typical 15m unflapped glass glider so 60 knots is fine, typical tow speeds are 70-80 knots. 
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