In article .com,
wrote:

Jim's question seems a bit silly since he actually knows the whole
story--but an answer is in order. PGC has successfully used the single
drum winch for sale to launch full gross Grobs on many ocassions (Dean
Carswell conducted 30+ training filights on it one weekend--all dual in
Grob 103s). With 3600 feet of rope out, however, and retrieve over
less than perfecly smooth ground, our turn around time is excessive for
a large club with 120 members. The dual drum winch can make a big
difference in the number of operations per hour--simple logic, but I
guess we must mention it.

Of course the extra power of the newer winch is nice to have, to say
nothing of the fact that the newer winch is mounted on a roadable truck
bed.

If you are interested in this winch contact Jack as noted in the
initial post. I suspect that we will all see more ground launches as
the cost of av fuel reaches new highs.

Fly safe--

Skip Guimond


I was the main winch driver for the Southern Eagles Club where the Eagle
winch originated (designed and built by Glen Lawler in Auburn, AL). I've
probably driven more launches with it than anyone. The difference
between a good winch and all the rest is in ease of use and reliability.
The Eagle winch is very easy to use and has been extremely reliable. The
only problems we ever encountered with it was the guillotine blades got
loose after 2000 launches and clipped off a cable splice, and once when
we had a simulated cable break, I didn't get on the brakes fast enough,
causing a cable tangle that got out of the drum and wiped out a brake
line. The Spectra line is the way to go. It doesn't throw a tangle the
way steel cable does. The winch was really still in the prototype stage
when we started using it and Glen never got around to finishing the
mechanism for selecting the left or right drum from inside the cab. You
have a great machine, I hope you get a lot of good use out of it. I miss
it still.

Wallace