In the UK a good briefing and about 5 or 6 practice
launch failures is usually enough to safely send aerotow
trained pilots solo on the winch.

Del C

At 15:42 16 August 2007, Nimbusgb wrote:

Agree with the basics Bill but in practice its teaching
all the
things that can go wrong that usually takes another
100 or more
launches. Correcting launch problems needs to become
automatic, quick,
decisive and 'right first time' to make winching safe.

Ian