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by Zack C
2013/01/19 15:41:28 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Weak links
Replies: 1840
Views: 780087

Re: Weak links

Tad Eareckson wrote:The material you're using is obviously 130 pound Magibraid (IGFA, performs the same as Greenspot) which suggests you're flying at Wallaby.
Wallaby uses Magibraid? Since when? They used Greenspot when I was last there in 2007.

Zack
by Zack C
2012/12/23 03:45:14 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Welcome / About This Forum
Replies: 114
Views: 438287

Re: Welcome / About This Forum

Hey Zack... Is it possible to set this forum up such that registration can only be effected after obtaining permission? There's an 'Account activation' setting under 'User registration settings' in the Administration Control Panel. If you set it to 'By admin', new accounts will be inactive until yo...
by Zack C
2012/12/06 01:43:49 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Quotes
Replies: 469
Views: 510856

Re: Quotes

From a post on our aerotow club forum...
Practices implemented in flight parks and competitions provide a good example of how aerotow clubs should operate.
Zack
by Zack C
2012/11/25 00:12:58 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: instructors and other qualified pilot fiends
Replies: 1743
Views: 874606

Re: instructors and other qualified pilot fiends

I doubt you can pick up a virus just visiting a forum - especially one you don't even log into. It actually is possible (by exploiting browser/plug-in vulnerabilities). I'm sure not seeing any problems but I'm using a Mac. No problems here either under Windows 7 with Opera 12.11, IE 9.0.11, and Fir...
by Zack C
2012/11/22 01:56:42 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Weak links
Replies: 1840
Views: 780087

Re: Weak links

Tad Eareckson wrote:- put together some bridles and stuff so I can get the tension gauge off to you and stop feeling rotten about that
Don't sweat it...you're under no obligation and if you want to do it there's no rush.

Zack
by Zack C
2012/11/21 03:17:43 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Weak links
Replies: 1840
Views: 780087

Re: Weak links

- Maybe you DID test the Greenspot installed on bridle material and got the same 130 pound average everybody else does. - So to save face after publishing that idiot article with the claim of 260 pounds you found out you could up the blow point to 230 by installing it on fat smooth quick links. Tad...
by Zack C
2012/11/05 12:53:37 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Towing Aloft
Replies: 70
Views: 167109

Re: Towing Aloft

I (or Tad) can sticky the topic (so it'll always appear first), but it's already high on the Google rankings for 'Towing Aloft'.

Zack
by Zack C
2012/10/20 17:34:49 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Surface towing for teaching
Replies: 79
Views: 34364

Re: Surface towing for teaching

And your trim setting wasn't preventing you from nosing up on your launch attempt any more than it does on an aero launch or flight when your pitch attitude is a helluva lot higher than it ever got on this effort. Tad, gliders aerotowing two point usually have their keel attachment point set to tri...
by Zack C
2012/10/18 12:40:48 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: Quotes
Replies: 469
Views: 510856

Re: Quotes

Ryan Voight - Oct 18, 2012

I guess the hook knife is my second release? Or is that third release, with the weaklink being a second?
by Zack C
2012/10/18 03:47:39 UTC
Forum: General
Topic: instructors and other qualified pilot fiends
Replies: 1743
Views: 874606

Re: instructors and other qualified pilot fiends

Based on the way that thread is going, I don't think hang gliding is ready for the revolutionary concept of weak links on both shoulders. If two instructors at two flight parks think such a configuration somehow doubles the links' breaking strengths, we're even worse off than I thought. (Not sure wh...

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