Safety of winch launch vrs. aero tow?

"Stefan" wrote in message
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Bill Daniels wrote:

BTW, How about some of our British and European friends with lots of
winch

experience jumping in here?


SNIP
Winch launching has much more safety issues for the ground crew and
spectators than for the pilot. Be sure to have an experienced person
show you safe procedures.

Of course, an experienced winch driver helps a lot, too. At our club, a
new winch driver must do 50 launches under supervision befor he's
allowed to winch alone. We never had a winch accident in 40 years.

Stefan

We do 40, 20 as observer/helper, and 20 supervised, but our winch is a
simple
single-drummed affair.

Frank Whiteley