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September 13th 05, 09:29 AM
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Is anyone doing this?
In Europe, this is becoming more and more common. Towing works astonishingly well with 100 hp and one of those new planes. The limit is when the glider is very heavy (fully loaded two seater) or the runway is very short and soft. Towing with 3 gal/hour and with remarkably little noise is much cheaper and neighbour-friendlier, even if a tow it last 10% longer. There are currently two categories of "new tow planes": Motorgliders (such as the Super Dimona, in the USA called Katana XTreme) and modern ultalights, as they are called here (see for example http://www.remos.com/). All in all, in Europe we strongly believe that this is the future of towing. Stefan 
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