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Cadillac commercial accident?
On Oct 19, 9:49*am, John Cochrane
wrote: On Oct 18, 10:53*pm, Bill D wrote: So, putting this thread together it seems we have another plausible scenario: the glider does a "ground tow" using a short rope, but following a climb profile, with the plan being to release and then land straight ahead. The rope breaks or back-releases with the glider still pointing up at about 175 feet.... A nice thing, John, to bring the thread back to topic and summarize. There is one thing about this situaion that mystifies me: a witness interviewed by local TV said "they had been flying about an hour" before the accident happened. There's been no clue what actions that hour of flying contained (or whether it existed). In any case, it seemed to imply that the accident may not have happened on the first go. And, on a technical note, it *is* possible to do a safe 180 with less than 175 ft altitude AGL, but from level flight safely above stall speed, not from a steep slow climb. Dan Johnson |
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