On Nov 26, 3:03 pm, John Smith wrote:
2cernauta2 wrote:
Wouldn't it be possible to locate the winch outside the airfield's
boundary, and launch with a longer rope on a 600m runway?
Is this common practice at some glider sites?

If geography allows you to retrieve the cable (no bushes, roads, walls,
rivers, whatever between start place and winch), if the safety of
uninvolved persons is not compromised, if there's no road, house,
whatever the cable can fall onto, if you can find an agreement with the
farmers whose fields you will cross while retrieveing the cable... and
be sure there's no regulation which prohibits cables above a certain
height. If you can fulfill all these requirements, then it would
certainly be worth to give it a try.

And if cable breaks at *all* heights can be safely dealt with...