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![]() "John Smith" wrote in message . .. You don't have to convince me of the advantages of a winch, after all, I'm a winch driver. And I just *love* those catapult take offs. But as I said in another post, you can't go cross country from the winch at every site. At ours, for example, we mostly can't, so we use the winch mainly for training. As landing practice is a major part of the student training, a winch does reduce training cost tremendously. As you only need one launch for an 8 hour cross country flight, tow cost isn't such a big problem for cross country flying. I don't argue against aero tow. There will always be time and places where it's the best. So why can't you get away XC from your winch? Bill Daniels |
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Bill Daniels wrote:
So why can't you get away XC from your winch? Our runway is 2000ft. We can use about 2300ft of cable which gives us 1300ft of height if wind conditions are ideal, more typically 1150ft and sometimes only 1000ft if conditions are poor. This just isn't enough to reach our nearest thermal, simple as that. Not everybody is operating from a 5000ft runway and not every airfield was placed with thermals in mind. |
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