Off in the weeds

What a great video. At last a video without some loud rock/heavy metal
background. Good cutting between views. Makes the whole thing dramatic. Bit
more dramatic than my winch launch experiences.
But a great video.

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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On 2007-08-27, Michael Ash wrote:
First, some context, for those unfamiliar with gliders. The takeoff is a
tricky operation, since you're balancingon a single wheel, and you're
effectively taking off in formation.

There's aerotow launches, and then there are winch launches. Try doing
that on a winch launch :-)

See http://www.alioth.net/Video/Winch-launch.mp4

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In rec.aviation.student Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2007-08-27, Michael Ash wrote:
First, some context, for those unfamiliar with gliders. The takeoff is a
tricky operation, since you're balancingon a single wheel, and you're
effectively taking off in formation.

There's aerotow launches, and then there are winch launches. Try doing
that on a winch launch :-)

See http://www.alioth.net/Video/Winch-launch.mp4

Yeah, I should have specified, although I'm sure it was pretty obvious.
Winch launching is something I really need to try someday. It's too bad
it's so rare in the US.

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Dan Luke wrote:
I don't think they realized how
close they had come to getting hurt or killed.
Oh, well; another lesson learned. "Controls free and correct?" Maybe at the
moment you check, but watch out for anything that could interfere with them
while you're not looking.

When I was a really low-timer, my instructor once grabbed the yoke, pulled
the plane into a gentle rolling climb, locked his cross-controlled leg onto
the rudder pedal and didn't move.

He said, "I am your passenger and I just freaked out at what you did and I'm
not lettin' go for anything." Truth is, after 8 or so lessons, I didn't know
what to do. So I smacked his hand off the yoke. It didn't budge. We were
slowing down fast and continuing to roll left thru 30deg. I smacked his hands
again but he was frozen. 45 degrees roll and really in a weird, slow attitude
I panicked and punched his face. His hands went to his face immediately and I
kinda got the ol' 152 back in a reasonable attitude.
Turns out way back he had a student freeze on him and they went into a spin
until he could get control back. He expected me to just get more agressive on
his arms until he let go but I got scared and went the next step up.
An interesting lesson. One I hope I won't need to use cuz' I fly gliders now
and gettin your hands on someone in a K-21 or DuoDiscus ain't easy.

I hear that when flying the S 2-32s they take the stick out of the back seat.
O_o

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"Kloudy via AviationKB.com" wrote:

I panicked and punched his face. His hands went to his face immediately

Haw!

I bet that's the last time he tried that trick.

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