Aerotow Fuel Costs & Winch Launching
In article , Derek Copeland
writes
My UK gliding club has just been forced to increase the cost of 2000ft
aerotows from £25 to £29 (about $58), just due to the spiralling price of
fuel.
A good case for more winch launching perhaps!
Derek Copeland
Too right!
I know of two UK clubs which use LPG as a fuel for winches.
We are doing more winching at our club; you can get to 1400 to 1500 ft
at about a third the price of an aerotow to 2000.
There seems to be an idea that winching is far more dangerous than
aerotows, but I am old enough to remember a time when we were killing
two or three tuggies every year.
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Mike Lindsay
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