'Lift and Tug Before You Get Off' - PSA video from Heli1
Yeah Jan, get rid of that Tad-O-Linken and linken to a good solid Mike Robertson, Pete Lehmann, Joe Greblo, Bob Kuczewski, Joe Gregor, Jack Axaopoulos, Mark G. Forbes, Davis Dead-On Straub, Steve Exceptionally-Knowledgeable Wendt, Cragin Shelton, Paul Ryan Voight, Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney, Quinn Cornwell, Martin Apopot, Martin Henry, Tormod Helgesen article un the unhooked launch issue.Tormod Helgesen - 2015/06/29 19:31:05 UTC
Hei Heli1: Kutt den linken til Tad er du snill, fyren er splitter pine gal.
Quote me somebody ever saying anything like that before I did:NMERider - 2015/06/29 19:45:14 UTC
Jan,
There is nothing wrong with your English. You and I plus a handful of others all understand the importance of treating our gliders like we are unhooked.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13132
Unhooked Death Again - Change our Methods Now?
2008/10/11 22:16:23 UTC
On Day One in any training program you wanna name.When pilots get too far into their habits and rituals...
Just as they're taught....they become accustomed to treating their gliders as though they are hooked-in.
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=802By telling ourselves we are unhooked any time we lift our gliders then by nature we are going to do something about it before we commit to flight. But inevitably there will be interference to the sequence of events between the time we connect our bodies to our gliders and the moment that we launch.
AL's Second flight at Packsaddle how it went
Rick Masters - 2011/10/19 22:47:17 UTC
At that moment, I would banish all concern about launching unhooked. I had taken care of it. It was done. It was out of my mind.
Or, what the fuck, WHILE we're committing to it. Contrary to popular belief launching with a tight strap in light air is survivable at least three out of five times and in strong air everybody does it anyway.If we do a simple hook-in check right before we commit to launch...
If you've done an adequate preflight - maybe three seconds worth on the relevant issues - it's totally eliminated. Cite a contradictory incident....then the likelihood of falling free or crashing while holding on to the base-bar is minimized.
Or no action if you just let the glider float up in adequate air.The most effective hook-in technique I know of is the simple lift and tug. It tells us that our harness is connected and our legs are in our leg loops all in one simple action.
You verify that the chamber is empty by aiming at the ground and pulling the trigger. If you haven't done that within the past two seconds you don't aim it at your head and pull the trigger.By telling ourselves we are always unhooked it is like telling ourselves that the gun we are handling is always loaded. This way we avoid pointing a loaded gun at ourselves or another accidentally. If we verify that the chamber is in fact empty immediately before handling that is a different story.
...previous...If we verify we are in fact connected to our glider and leg loops immediately before launching that puts all...
Neither Rob nor T** at K*** S****** deserve to have that check connected with his name....interference and distraction behind us.
The reason I connect my harness to my glider before getting in is so that I can visually inspect the lines and risers for crosses, tangles, twists and other anomalies. I don't do it to insure I'm hooked in before I launch. I use the Rob Kells lift and tug hook-in check...
The fuckin' Aussie Methodist fanatics have vigilante enforcement gangs to force everybody to fall in line with their particular concept of Allah - and that's not even on anyone's books. What's stopping hook-in checkers to do something similar? Something that's been on the US books since 1981/08?...for that within a few seconds of the moment I commit.
You did a great job with your PSA video and I hope pilots share it among themselves so that others may benefit.
The aerotow industry thugs forced pretty much everyone on the planet to incorporate a totally deadly safety device as the focal point of their safe towing systems - commonly in violation of FAA regulations - for DECADES. How come there are ZERO footlaunch flying sites on the planet at which hook-in checks are absolutely mandatory with really nasty consequences for the assholes who ARE hooked in as well as the normal nasty consequences for the one's who aren't?
"I didn't wanna raise my wing into the turbulent jet stream!"
"Tough shit. Six month suspension, five hundred dollar contribution to the Pilot Education Fund... NEXT."
And why would anybody who had a friend he gave half a flying fuck about tolerate him skipping hook-in checks? How are you gonna feel watching Bill Priday's Sport 2 reappear above launch without him knowing that you hadn't gone to the hilt getting him compliant?If it prevents just one injury accident or fatality in the span of ten years it was worth all the effort that went into it.
This can't just be a suggestion that individual flyers decide to accept or ignore if it's gonna have any measurable impact.
Cheers,
Jonathan
C'mon Tormod. Try harder. This is your big chance to finally make an actual positive contribution to the sport.Jan - 2015/06/29 19:48:18 UTC
Hei Tormod.
Linken er ikke til Tad, selv om han har skrevet innholdet.
Jeg bryr meg ikke om hvem som har formulert det, det kan redde liv,og det blir nok værende.
Ha en fin dag
Jan
(Short: The link is not to Tad's site, even if he wrote it.It can save lives, and will not be removed
Have a nice day
Jan)
