HANG GLIDING FOR BEGINNER PILOTS...that can slash through lines in an instant. You should never tow without one - in an emergency, you can use it to cut the tow-line or bridle. The hook knife must be mounted on your harness so that you can reach it quickly and easily.
By Peter Cheney
Published by Matt Taber
Official Flight Training Manual of the U. S. Hang Gliding Association
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Todd Hang Gliding at El Dorado with Emergency Procedures.wmv
Discussed at:Harold Wickham - 2010/03/22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJGUJO5BjnA
Tow Vehicle Driver and Instructor: Ron Peck
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=16384
Tow Release Malfunction
Ignore the 2008/12/01 series (yellow) time stamps. This flight was undoubtedly made a short time before the posting and discussion.
This video had needed a stills harvest for a long time but I'd never been able to muster the requisite enthusiasm. A short way into the project my appreciation of my instincts was considerably bolstered. But almost invariably when pulling stills one notices things which are virtually invisible watching at real world speed and a lot of lightbulbs tend to come on - 'specially after a lot of time has elapsed and a lot of history has been forged.
This one, for example, is a major smoking gun prequel to the Kelly Harrison / Arys Moorhead crash at Jean Lake - five years plus a week later and just about seventeen miles to the WSW of El Dorado.
The "pilot" - Todd Jones - should get a lot of slack cut as he's a student on his fourth high flight and Vegas is a major hang glider dickhead center.
Sorry 'bout the length but that's what was needed to do the job right and really illustrate the absurdity/insanity of carrying a hook knife as a backup/emergency release - and the criminal cynicism of the motherfuckers teaching and preaching that they have the least value as items of tow equipment.
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