On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:03:34 -0800, Darryl Ramm wrote:

Seems the towplane pilot could have aborted the
takeoff. Even if he can't watch everything goign on you'd have hoped the
glider pilot would let him know something bad is going on (using
suitable descriptive phraseology).

I could hear somebody yelling Stop...Stop, but I couldn't see if there
was space to get the tow plane down without snagging the remains of the
glider on something and stalling it in.

Why didn't the glider pilot release as soon as the first tip snagged?

Are eventualities and instant release not part of the RC pre-flight
checklist?


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