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![]() BTW: In my 18 seasons of gliding I am not aware of the winch cable ever been cut in an emergency. And that's in about 70'000 launches. Regards Marcel Our club had an instance recently where it was required to cut the cable but the pilot did some radical flying (75degree nose down in a ventus a at 700 feet) he let go of the stick and used both hands on the release and the cable came off. This ventus had been backreleasing for some time and an "adjustment" was done but the backrelease angle was now somewhere near the wheel centre. One shaken pilot and one big lesson . One senior pilot of 45 yrs 11000hrs said he had never seen a hangup in all his flying. |
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