Brian, the mount should be easily reached and released from the tow pilots position while securely strapped into the tow plane. As Walt has stated, "it is about time", more tow planes need to be inspected and a determination should be made as to the ease of release. I have see tow planes that would make it impossible to release under any circumstance much less an emergency. The question that I have is, how many tow pilots were lost because they could not effectively reached or located the release? One is too many.

I can imagine what it might look like, I have just never seen one, or the details how to route cables.

Brian