Bill Daniels wrote:
"Don Johnstone" wrote in
message ...

A word of caution, have you ever tried to lift a reel
of 5mm steel wire? All that weight through one fixing/bulkhead.
Might be ok with the new plastic ropes though.



Indeed! 5mm wire weighs 8 - 10 pounds per hundred feet. Plastic rope
weighs about 1 pound per hundred feet.

Bill Daniels


Just to end the year on a high note - I got the last launch of the year at the
club. 15 to 20km/h wind on the nose and 1.8km of wire resulted in a personal
best of 2,300" AGL in a Bergfalke III (1964 vintage rag and tube with wooden
wings) Addition of 10 year old daughter as a badly calibrated back seat
audio-vario was fun too.