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Old May 16th 20, 01:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Glider release failure?

On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8:22:47 AM UTC-7, Tango Whisky wrote:
Le vendredi 15 mai 2020 14:30:26 UTC+2, waremark a écritÂ*:
I was at the field when a glider could not release. The combination descended back to the airfield with the rope still attached at both ends and landed safely. I understand that if you want to descend with the rope attached the best way to control the descent is with the glider pilot carefully using the airbrakes.


If you want to land on tow, you descend with full airbrakes into the low tow position and keep the airbrakes fully open. The tow pilot is in charge of the approach/descent. It is essential that on short final, he remembers that there is a glider 5 or 7 meters below him...
That's how we teach this here in Switzerland. It's a quite useless exercise, but it's fun ;-)


When I trained to land on tow at Minden the tow could stop faster than the G103, so it was important for two plane to go left of center line while the glider maneuvered right of center line. Would be embarrassing to resend the tow. After both signaled couldn't release, the glider moved to low tow. It wasn't difficult but should be briefed with both parties.
 




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