On 2/14/2014 5:57 PM, joesimmers wrote:
Yes in the hanggliding world checklists are pretty
much non existent, you would get laughed at for having one, but what they do use is something called a "hang check"

What this is is before you launch off of a cliff or slope,
you have an assistant hold your nose wires and you drop
down into the prone position, when you do this you can crank your
head around and visibly see that you have connected your carbineer
correctly to your hang strap and backup hang strap. Usually your
assistant also verifies this but I always preferred seeing the
connection with my own eyes.


Yeah, me too. I personally knew 2 people that failed to do that on cliff
launches - they were not hooked in. One was fatal, the second pilot was
a gymnast who "simply" hung onto the base tube, swung up, trapeze like,
hooked in and landed safely.

Tony