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Us a pretakeoff checklist - just like you did once on your FAA
Checkride! CBSIFTCBE works - or any checklist that includes "airbrakes (spoilers) closed and locked." Left hand in a fist - behind the airbrake handle may alert you that airbrakes are creeping open. The free video from the Soaring SAfety Foundation has a good segment on signals and checklists. Order from www.soaringsafety.org Our procedure at Marfa, TX USA (developed from the towpilot's point of view): Ground crew refuses to hook up towrope until pilot closes and locks airbrakes. IF glider pilot wishes to use airbrakes open on takeoff for better aileron control with water ballast, then ground crew confirms the towpilot is aware of this. Glider pilot radios towpilot "canopy and airbrakes closed and locked". Towpilot (just before takeoff) repeats back to glider pilot "understand your canopy and airbrakes are closed and locked." If you do not follow our procedures - we don't launch. No one gets a tow without a "Marfa Aerotow Briefing". Casual or "know it all" glider pilots are refused a tow unless our procedures are completed. Sorry but as your towpilot we gotta do it my way. This cat has used up 8 of my 9 lives over the past 39 years towing gliders. Many glider pilots view the tow as a means to an end- "just get me up there" like a ski lift operator. Do the checklists, follow the procedures, and remember the "joy of soaring"starts after you release! Burt CFIG / DPE Marfa Gliders west Texas www.flygliders.com |
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