Super fast assembly and launch...

Let's see...

A group of glider jockeys, of all ages, working together as a team,
having FUN (I know I know, not allowed in most soaring environs). Yep.
This is all bad and these guys should be kicked off the planet. But ya
know what. I wanna go with them and buy them a bier.

Bob

At 18:57 15 November 2008, Bruce wrote:

Personally I would put the risk of mis-assembly on this one at way lower

than the glider assembled by a few amiable chaps collected randomly by
the guy with a trailer...

Possibly true, but after the leisurely assembly around
the trailer, the guy whose butt is going to be at risk
checks the work of everybody else.

As an exercise - consider whether there really was no control check. I
can see there was no "normal" positive control check. But I can't see

from the video whether the controls were moved deliberately during
assembly with someone observing a specific sequence of stick movements.
Or maybe there was an agreed quick control movement sequence from the
pilot with observers for each surface.

But that rather avoids the import of the 'P' in the PCC
sequence, doesn't it?

Jim Beckman