On 12/04/2011, at 8:58 PM, tom claffey wrote:
> I have almost been killed by a glider with belly hook in high tow going too
> high as tug went into sink as glider went up in strong thermal. The only
> thing that stopped him wearing the rope was that It was my first day in an
> unfamiliar tug with different release handle.
>
Then maybe you could equally say you were almost killed by insufficient
cockpit familiarity! :-)
> A number of fatalities have happened around the world. That said, I stay in
> high tow until a few hundred feet before going low.
> If you go higher than I like behind me you will wear the rope!
That would be entirely in line with expectations, regardless of what
position I was supposed to be in.
- mark
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