On our field communication between pilot and winch driver is mostly by 4.6mm
steel cable. Works fine and very direct :-)
And in germany communication between winch and start point on air band radio
(only) is not allowed, you may use a radio on some other frequency.

Tjeerd


"Bert Willing" schrieb im
Newsbeitrag ...
Nothing worse than an additional communication step between pilot and
winch
driver. Did that for 10 years in Germany, happy to do it by radio ever
since
I left Germany, hadn't had an interference from others on the same
frequencies for the last 13 years :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"Andreas Maurer" a écrit dans le message de
...
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:02:06 +0000, Robert Ehrlich
wrote:


Why telephone rather than radio? Radio let everybody know what is
happening, rather than only the two persons at bot end of telephone.
Likely mandatory when there is some other activity in parallel (aero
tow, power flying ...).

Nothing worse than someone else interfering during the critical phase
of a winch launch (initial acceleration).

Bye
Andreas