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What is wrong wit a mandatory waving off the gliders at the end of the tow?
Wrong is that I, the glider pilot, want to decide where to be towed and when to release. Because I, the glider pilot, am in the air without an .... This attitude terrifies me as a tow pilot. If the tug pilot waves you off- GET OFF NOW! You do not know if there is an emergency. If you don't want to be waved off in lift, discuss with tug .... You can misunderstand everything if you really want to, can't you. Somebody suggested to wave off the glider at the end of *every* tow. My answer was that in a *normal* tow, it's the glider pilot who says where and how hight the tow goes. Period. Because he will have to deal with the release and because he will pay the tow. Of course *in an emergency*, the tow pilot has every right to wave me off. More precisely, in a true emergency, I wouldn't even expect him to wave me off but rather to just release his end of the rope. |
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