Glider Towplane Mid-air – TP PowerFLARM Inop

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:15:52 PM UTC-6, waremark wrote:
My glider blunted and I was hanging from my straps and fell out as soon as I released the harness. My mohair was at 3000 ft agl but I would have had no problems from 2000.

Anyway, reading this will make me pay more attention to where the tug goes after release. At our club to avoid shock cooling the tug generally accelerates away level before reducing power, and the glider does a climbing turn to slow down.

please elaborate "blunted" and "mohair"
thanks,
Scott

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 5:51:24 PM UTC-8, Scott Williams wrote:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 6:15:52 PM UTC-6, waremark wrote:
My glider blunted and I was hanging from my straps and fell out as soon as I released the harness. My mohair was at 3000 ft agl but I would have had no problems from 2000.

Anyway, reading this will make me pay more attention to where the tug goes after release. At our club to avoid shock cooling the tug generally accelerates away level before reducing power, and the glider does a climbing turn to slow down.

please elaborate "blunted" and "mohair"

I'd guess "bunted" and "midair". Aeronautical terms not recognized by the spell checker / auto correct he's using.

:-)

Correct, bunted and midair entered on my tablet. Dratted autocorrect. It has just done the same again. I should have proof read before hitting post.

To answer another question - the perspex of my canopy departed from the shock of the collision. I found myself pointing at the ground, hanging from my straps in the open air. However I have no doubt there would have been plenty of time to jettison the canopy. The pilot of the other glider an ASW27 with a forward hinged canopy (and spinning with a wing broken off) managed to exit without jettisoning the canopy. Neither of us was hurt - we were amazingly lucky. Incidentally this was in 2003 - I am convinced that this was one crash which would have been prevented by Flarm.

Did you release the canopy or go through it?

On 2/11/2020 5:15 PM, waremark wrote:
My glider blunted and I was hanging from my straps and fell out as soon as I released the harness. My mohair was at 3000 ft agl but I would have had no problems from 2000.

Anyway, reading this will make me pay more attention to where the tug goes after release. At our club to avoid shock cooling the tug generally accelerates away level before reducing power, and the glider does a climbing turn to slow down.

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Dan, 5J

I think the reverse question is more intersting. How many people would have a PowerFLARM in a towplane and tolerating it repeatedly having problems before getting it fixed.

I expect it would be good to see more PowerFLARM adoption in towplanes in the USA.

The ABQ soaring club Pawnee has either a Flarm or a transponder.Â* In any
case, I see it electronically all the time.

On 2/12/2020 11:03 AM, Darryl Ramm wrote:
I think the reverse question is more intersting. How many people would have a PowerFLARM in a towplane and tolerating it repeatedly having problems before getting it fixed.

I expect it would be good to see more PowerFLARM adoption in towplanes in the USA.

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Dan, 5J