don't need to reel it in for the winch effect..
just climb as high as you can with about 3 miles of spectra..
and hang on while the glider "kites" up behind you for a few thousand extra
feet of altitude.

either that or the glider can just "catch the wave"...

we have 30G40 down here tonight after today's frontal passage..
how much snow did you get?

BT


"Fred" wrote in message
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Steve:

We have a reel in our towplane, but it is driven by a rubber band and
certainly doesn't have enough power to act as a winch. In fact I have
to keep the airspeed below 80 Kts when I reel in the line or it stops
retracting. And speaking of Spectra, I'm told it requires extra
strong drums on winches because it has enough stretch that it builds
up tension on the drum, kind of like wrapping a stretched rubber band
around your finger -- the tension could eventually crush the drum of
many winches. Fred