There is a very large part of operations in Europe where you don't drop any
ropes anymore, but reel them in. Almost as time-efficient as having a tow
rope for each glider. Plus, you can have the weaklink on the glider's end
without having Darwin de-selecting the tug pilots who are low on short
final.

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"Don Johnstone" a écrit
dans le message de news: ...
At 12:06 31 October 2005, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On 30 Oct 2005 08:12:55 -0800, 'snoop' wrote:


But one question comes to mind. How does the group
feel about receiving
the whole rope at the glider end, in the event of a
rope break.

Not good.


That's the cause why the German gliding operation manual
*strictly*
dictates to have the weak link at the glider side of
the tow rope.
Or put a weak link at both ends to protect tug and
glider on the launch and protect the tug from a rope
catch on approach

Bye
Andreas