On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 00:13:44 -0700 (PDT), Tango Whisky
wrote:

I have done maybe 1500 winch launches on quite a variety of airfields, most of them as an instructor, and I've never heared such a nonsense.
You hold your hand close to the release, maybe on the cable behind the knob, but you never grab it.
The tail is not bobbing around. On two-seaters like the ASK21, it will come down during the initial acceleration, and it will stay down unless your winch is a piece of junk.
You don't raise the tail.
You don't think about controls authorities. The nose veers 10 degrees off - you release. A wing threatens to hit the ground - you release. No thinking involved.
And you will have full authorities of controls 10 m into the ground roll.

Bert
Ventus cM "TW"


Bert is right, as usual.


Cheers
Andreas, 5.000+ winch launches as instructor.