Emergencies on aerotow

You cannot teach safety in paragraph-long sound bites.

Unlike a high percentage of glider pilots, if you want to be a safe pilot, you need to educate yourself.

How many launching emergencies are there? All pilots automatically think of rope breaks. Believe it or not, 41 emergencies are listed, including: "Others I have not thought of."

Up to date, current, information about launching emergencies will be found in the popular, 2014 edition of the Glider Flight Training Manual, ($39.95 at www.eglider.org, or the SSA, or many glider clubs and FBOs) which includes a chart showing the data, including bank angle, airspeed, sink rate, load factor, radius of turn, time for the turn and altitude lost during the turn.