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Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/16 16:15:06 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
http://www.questairforce.com/aero.html
Aerotow FAQ
Quest Air Hang Gliding
ALWAYS RELEASE THE TOWLINE before there is a problem.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/18 16:33:29 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=26870
weak links
michael170 - 2012/08/17 17:01:40 UTC
Zack, let me see if I understand your logic.
You had a thing and it broke needlessly.
You didn't want the thing to break needlessly.
You replaced the thing with a stronger thing.
Now the thing doesn't break needlessly.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/18 17:25:23 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=26870
weak links
Steve Seibel - 2012/08/18 16:22:36 UTC
The high G-load made it harder to for me to get my hand quickly to the release, and the glider rolled to quite a steep bank, and the loads rose much higher than I intended before I hit the handle.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/20 15:33:06 UTC
by Steve Davy
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=26870
weak links
Zack C - 2012/08/19 18:03
The decision of when to terminate a tow should be made by the pilot, not a piece of string.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/24 16:04:31 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
Doug Hildreth - 1990/03
The instructional programs to assure hook-in within fifteen seconds of launch have apparently not caught up with the masses.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/26 10:27:32 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=881
Davis Straub; Idiot Statist, Endless Wars & Tyranny
Sam Kellner - 2011/12/21 14:05:56 UTC
Let's work together and make the US Hawks the best.
Also, so the Hawks forum continues to catch on, allowing us the platform to express our HG opinions.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28211
Davis Straub - 2012/06/18 17:38:20 UTC
Platform towing fatality in Leakey, Texas
Bulletproof
Posted: 2012/08/29 19:34:19 UTC
by Warnarr
Tad Eareckson - 2012/08/29 17:44:40 UTC
I've been at this game a long time and being nice isn't effective. The logic and record on this is bulletproof.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/29 20:07:35 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
Just to put things in context...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post2801.html#p2801
The "this" being referred to in the second sentence is the strategy of always assuming you are not hooked in and always verifying that you are within several seconds of launch.
Being nice on the individual and small scale levels to nice individuals is VERY effective and it's a delight for me to work in that mode.
But this sport is - predictably and inevitably - controlled by rotten lying serial killers and every second spent treating any of them with any measure of respect and civility is a second gone from one's life forever to absolutely no positive purpose.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/31 17:06:25 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
Steve Kinsley - 2005/09/25
Great post. But I suspect it is all lost on the rabble. I used to do stuff like that but my attention span no longer accommodates it.
Re: Quotes
Posted: 2012/08/31 19:38:30 UTC
by Tad Eareckson
Wills Wing / Blue Sky / Steve Wendt / Ryan Voight Productions - 2007/03
NEVER CUT THE POWER...
Reduce Gradually
Increase Gradually