Amazing Winching Weekend in Utah

Bruno: how about winch launch day at 15 meter nationals rest day next year? ( I forgot , it's Utah. No rest days. 1000 k task every day. On the practice day then! )
John cochrane

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 5:08:09 PM UTC-6, John Cochrane wrote:
Bruno: how about winch launch day at 15 meter nationals rest day next year? ( I forgot , it's Utah. No rest days. 1000 k task every day. On the practice day then! )
John cochrane

Love the idea. I have thought maybe of being a sniffer for one day where we can launch first and show the rest of the field what a launch looks like. There are many pilots in the USA who have been flying for decades but who have still not seen a winch launch in person.

Another idea would be to hold a Regionals or OLC/XC Camp and it is limited to 30 gliders. We bring in a second winch and launch the entire fleet only by winching. Would be fun.

Bruno - B4

Bruno what height AGL are you achieving on the winch launchs?

At 05:50 07 October 2015, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Bruno what height AGL are you achieving on the winch launchs?

Hi All,

Sounds like you are having some fun.

Obviously I am sure you are aware we do loads of winch launching
here in the UK.

I am equally sure you are aware, but there is some excellent advice
on safe winch launching on the BGA website as there have been a
few accidents over the years.

By the way love your videos Bruno.

Cheers

Graham

At 05:50 07 October 2015, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Bruno what height AGL are you achieving on the winch launchs?

Hi All,

Sounds like you are having some fun.

Obviously I am sure you are aware we do loads of winch launching
here in the UK.

I am equally sure you are aware, but there is some excellent advice
on safe winch launching on the BGA website as there have been a
few accidents over the years.

By the way love your videos Bruno.

Cheers

Graham

I trained in Australia (Bond Springs) and, with about a mile of cable,
we typically got about 2,500' AGL.

On 10/6/2015 11:50 PM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
Bruno what height AGL are you achieving on the winch launchs?

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Dan, 5J

Why bother with a special day. We have launched club/sports class in
parallel using a winch with the 18m and up using aero tow.

On 2015-10-07 01:08, John Cochrane wrote:
Bruno: how about winch launch day at 15 meter nationals rest day next year? ( I forgot , it's Utah. No rest days. 1000 k task every day. On the practice day then! )
John cochrane


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Bruce Greeff
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