I recall years ago when a soaring club in Colorado, USA dropped the winch
cable across overhead power lines. It started quite a grass fire!


"Bryan Poehler" wrote in message
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At 16:43 29 January 2013, kirk.stant wrote:
The St Louis Soaring Association is interested in setting up a winch demo

Kirk,

You probably know this but the BGA has a good web page on winch launching
safety at:
http://www.gliding.co.uk/bgainfo/saf...hlaunching.htm

Bryan