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November 17th 07, 10:15 PM
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Being towed too slow?
On 17 Nov, 19:31, Mike Lindsay wrote:
A lot of years ago I was towed at 80 KPH when the glider had a placard reading Ne jamais depasser 65KPH. Nobody seemed the least bothered. A lot of years ago I was given an aerotow retrieve in a Slingsby Swallow by a tug pilot who was the CFI of a club which shall remain nameless. Max aerotow speed: 61kt (or some pathetic number about that). Actual tow speed: 90kt. And the Swallow was twitchy enough on the elevator at the best of times. Still, I was poor(er) then, and the CFI knew I was paying by the minute for the retrieve. Ian 
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