tow rope handling
On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 11:43:10 PM UTC-5, John Foster wrote:
On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 10:06:48 PM UTC-6, 2G wrote:
On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 7:41:44 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Not to mention the amount of time it takes to teach some lackadaisical ground Ops crew how to do it.
Explaining it to you would take a couple of hours: I would do it myself and be done in a minute.
I gotta agree with Tom here. This is really a pretty slick way of doing it. And it is really handy to store and transport a ball of tow rope instead of a cart/reel (not that a reel is difficult though). The only "difficult" part about it is that you have to pull the rope out from the center of the ball. If that is too hard to understand, you probably shouldn't be flying aircraft of any kind. And yes, it takes just as long to wind a tow rope up on a garden hose reel as it does to wind up a "monkey ball" of tow rope.
Ok, I've never tried to roll up 200' of rope onto my hand so I can't speak authoritatively so you tell me how long it takes. I have rolled up 200' of rope onto a hose reel probably 100 times and it takes about 30 seconds.
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