Re: launching
Posted: 2016/02/08 15:21:45 UTC
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=34040
Mountain launching from wheels?
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Anybody ever hear of one of these launches being blown, anyone shortly thereafter falling from his glider 'cause he wasn't hooked in or didn't have his leg loops?
Neither Craig Pirazzi nor Karen Carra would've been contributors to last year's bloodbath if they'd launched as you see Doug getting into the air. Likely not...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2330
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Note we're not hearing this Bob Show Dickhead In Good Standing rail against the dangers and evils of mountain foot launching.
Mountain launching from wheels?
I dunno, Robert. What kind of conditions would make wheel LANDING the preferred technique?Robert Kesselring - 2016/02/08 12:07:39 UTC
I saw something in the Ken Muscio tribute video (RIP brother) that I'm curious about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8CNyEyZLoM
At 2:40 you see him performing a mountain launch from wheels. Someone else is holding his keel up and running him down the launch until he lifts off.
This is something I hadn't seen before. Was this an odd thing to try, or is this a commonly used launch technique? If it is something commonly used, what kind of conditions would make this the preferred technique?
Compare/Contrast with foot landing which is ONLY done when not needed.Steven Ford - 2016/02/08 12:48:21 UTC
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'not a typical technique unless needed.
Chris Starbuck?It is generally needed when the launching pilot is unable to run a launch under their own power. I didn't know Ken or know of him so I can't say that was his case. I have seen it used by a paraplegic pilot at Telluride during the Fall of 1989.
It was Doug freakin'...Allen Sparks - 2016/02/08 13:14:10 UTC
Spinal cord injury is one example. I am pretty sure that wasn't KM in the glider.
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So that makes it an INappropriate technique for any non disabled pilot?Robert Kesselring - 2016/02/08 13:20:46 UTC
Ok, so it's not a condition with the weather or the launch that makes this the appropriate technique, it's a condition with the pilot.
All the information you're ever gonna need right there in Jack's Living Room. What an outstanding resource ya have there, Robert.That answered my question.
Thanks.
Yes, Robert. You won't need to LEARN how to lie down in your harness underneath a glider while a crew powers off a ramp and into the air. That should really put your mind at ease.Something I hopefully won't need to learn for a few more decades.
Anybody ever hear of one of these launches being blown, anyone shortly thereafter falling from his glider 'cause he wasn't hooked in or didn't have his leg loops?
Neither Craig Pirazzi nor Karen Carra would've been contributors to last year's bloodbath if they'd launched as you see Doug getting into the air. Likely not...
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=2330
Another great voice of hang gliding silenced
...Uli Blumenthal - a week before Karen - either.Rick Masters - 2016/02/05 23:37:36 UTC
Uli Blumenthal, author, member of the German national team
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At 68 years of age, Blumenthal caught a wingtip on a tree at take off from the Bavarian Alps. Spun in. Fatal. November 1, 2015.
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Note we're not hearing this Bob Show Dickhead In Good Standing rail against the dangers and evils of mountain foot launching.