SZD-56-2 Diana

Right - putting a winch cable onto a concrete runway which is used by
commercial traffic would push the limits a little bit.

But I rather was commenting on winch launch from controlled airfield.

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Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"Dieter Kleinschmidt" a écrit dans le message de news:
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Bert Willing wrote:
I've flown for years on a public airport (Braunschweig) in Germany with a
CTR, jet aircrafts, parachuters and 4 double-drum winches operated by 5
clubs. Winch launch was the standard method, aerotow something we did
once in a while.

But Braunschweig has a wide grass area parallel to the paved runway. This
does not apply to most public airfields in the US.

Bert Willing wrote:

Right - putting a winch cable onto a concrete runway which is used by
commercial traffic would push the limits a little bit.


But the winch cable doesn't need to be on the runway except a very
short length at the glider end, the cable may be at some angle from
the runway so that most of it and the winch itself are out of the
runway. Of course runway lights if present would the be a problem,
but it should work fine for unlighted runways.