http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3600
Weak link question
Jim Rooney - 2008/11/24 18:54:27 UTC
I'm confused. I never said the tug's ass was endangered. That's why we use 3strand at the tug's end. Using 4 strand can rip things off (it's happened).
Yeah? So you fucking geniuses discovered that a tow mast breakaway designed to break away at four strand tension broke away at four strand tension? How long did it take you to go to three strand? Were any tow mast breakaways snapped subsequent to the one on 2002/08/17 that dumped William Woloshyniuk and Victor Cox into a double fatal stall?
When forces are achieved that do break a 3 strand, your tail gets yanked around very hard, which does have implications as to the flight characteristics and flightpath.
Wow! You got four and five syllable words into that sentence to convey the illusion that you were actually saying something of substance. Most impressive.
AKA, I have no desire to allow you to have the ability to have that effect on me when I tow you... esp near the ground.
- Ya know what I do when a tug is having an effect on me that I don't desire - 'specially anywhere? I blow my homemade funky shit release. I know it doesn't work 'cause if it did everyone would be using it but I still prefer it to the stuff "designed" by...
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident2.jpg
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident3.jpg
...Bobby Fucking-Genius Bailey and marketed by Davis Dead-On Straub.
- So just how hard...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6326
An OK Day at Ridgely
Matthew Graham - 2014/06/09 01:51:11 UTC
I got on the flight line at a little after 1pm behind Sammi. She had a sledder. Then the tandem glider called rank and went ahead of me. The tandem broke a weak link and it took a while to sort out a new weak link. I finally towed around 1:30 and also broke a link at 450'. Back to the end of the line. Actually, my wife Karen let my cut in front of her. Bertrand and Sammi towed again. Each having sledder. The cirrus had moved in and things did not look good. Again I arrived at the front of the line only to have the tandem call dibs. And then the tug needed gas. I thought I would never get into the air...
...was that tandem's tail getting yanked around when that four strander blew and what were the implications for the flight characteristics and path? A bit odd that neither Matthew nor anyone else mentioned anything and there was no incident report published, donchya think?
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31052
Poll on weaklinks
Jim Rooney - 2013/03/04 19:31:36 UTC
We all play by the same rules, or we don't play.
Morningside decided that they were happy with 200lb weaklink. They changed their tug's link...
What did Morningside change their Dragonfly's weak link to accommodate the 200 they decided they were happy with on solos? A two strand? They don't tow tandems? Why would they need to change the tug's weak link unless they also upped their tandems (making things insanely dangerous for their tug pilots and without telling anyone)? And what would be the point if a four strand will rip off the tow mast breakaway?
C'mon. It's been a long time since we've had the benefit of your keen intellect. Get it in gear and tell us all just how well you have these issues sussed out.
...and they don't just pass the stuff out either.
Like...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39719
Building hang gliding back up
Tommy Thompson - 2014/11/07 01:33:34 UTC
I'v seen aero-tow sights where even H2 pilots are using 2G weaklinks because they don't want to risk ending up at the back of long line of gliders because of a weaklink break.
...some of these other places are? With total disregard for the safety of their Hang Twos?
If you'd like to know more about it... go ask them.
How strange they don't have anything up on their website. I'd think they'd want as many people as possible to fully understand how much better they're doing things than everyone else to attract more recreational pilots. And I'm really surprised you can't tell us more about it. I was under the distinct impression that...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22660
What can be learned from this "scooter" towing accident?
Mitch Shipley - 2011/01/31 15:22:59 UTC
Enjoy your posts, as always, and find your comments solid, based on hundreds of hours / tows of experience and backed up by a keen intellect/knowledge of the issues when it comes to most things in general and hang gliding AT/Towing in particular. Wanted to go on record in case anyone reading wanted to know one persons comments they should give weight to.
...you knew more about everything than anyone.