Standardization in Slack Rope Recovery?

On 2/3/2016 11:36 AM, son_of_flubber wrote:
The best way to demonstrate slack rope recovery is to take your BFR on a
wave day with rotor in the pattern. Scenario based BFR.


Chortle! Writ with tongue near cheek, I'll guess...

But seriously, this may in fact be as realistic a scenario as Joe Instructor
and Joe Experienced-near-mountains Soaring pilot can devise. In my case I
expect it woulda helped demonstrate the validity of my post-BFR claim, "I
never get slack in the rope!" FWIW, upon the presence of "significant slack"
on gnarly days (gnarly being common in the foothills of the Rockies), I
maintained a slight out-of-turn (if any) heading, yawed "slightly away" from
the tug angle, matching as best as possible the tug's deck angle (slightly
less than his, if I'm higher - the usual case), and wait. Never had a back
release while so doing, & only rarely any appreciable yanks or subsequent
"sympathetic loops" as noticeable in the glider.

Bob W.

On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 9:16:12 PM UTC-5, BobW wrote:
On 2/3/2016 11:36 AM, son_of_flubber wrote:
The best way to demonstrate slack rope recovery is to take your BFR on a
wave day with rotor in the pattern. Scenario based BFR.


Chortle! Writ with tongue near cheek, I'll guess...

At my last BFR, we did slack rope recovery in rotor, spin recovery, dove through a closing foehn hole, and flew V-approach of 75 K. Plan to do it again in 2016.