one more for low tow

At 22:43 24 February 2014, wrote:

Now, I'll anticipate the next goofy scenario which is glider release
failur=
e.
Let's not carry all of this too far.=20
UH

Not so far into the past at the RAFGSA centre, Bicester UK budding
instructors on courses were required to simulate a fail to release at both
ends and land behind the tug. I **** you not!

On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:00:25 PM UTC-5, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 22:43 24 February 2014, wrote: Now, I'll anticipate the next goofy scenario which is glider release failur= e. Let's not carry all of this too far.=20 UH Not so far into the past at the RAFGSA centre, Bicester UK budding instructors on courses were required to simulate a fail to release at both ends and land behind the tug. I **** you not!

Yep- we used to it too, but more for the fun of it.
The point I was trying to make is that the probability of being too low AND having the release fail is so low as to not be worth bringing up. I was mostly just getting ahead of the "what if?" guys.
UH

At 01:00 25 February 2014, Don Johnstone wrote:
At 22:43 24 February 2014, wrote:

Now, I'll anticipate the next goofy scenario which is glider release
failur=
e.
Let's not carry all of this too far.=20
UH

Not so far into the past at the RAFGSA centre, Bicester UK budding
instructors on courses were required to simulate a fail to release at
both
ends and land behind the tug. I **** you not!


Back in the 70's we did a few trials, at Booke, of landing with the glider
still on tow (one of the times you do use low tow) and concluded that
regularly practicing that was far more likely to cause an accident than the
very rare event (don't actually recall ever hearing of one) of release
failure at both ends. Safer and easier to deliberately break the weak
link.