[aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Graeme Cant
>From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On weak links - most other countries seem to put the weak link at the >glider end of the rope. This has the advantage that it can be inspected >before hook on. Er... Pardon my ignorance. That's where we put it. Is this irregular/illegal/immoral/unwise?

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 07:05 PM 18/04/01 +1000, you wrote: >>From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>On weak links - most other countries seem to put the weak link at the >>glider end of the rope. This has the advantage that it can be inspected >>before hook on. > >Er... Pardon my ignorance. That's where we put i

RE: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Christopher H Thorpe
PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links At 07:05 PM 18/04/01 +1000, you wrote: >>From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>On weak links - most other countries seem to put the weak link at the >>glider end of the rope. This has the advantage that it can

RE: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Armistead, Allan
2001 19:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links At 07:05 PM 18/04/01 +1000, you wrote: >>From: Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>On weak links - most other countries seem to put the weak link at the >>glider end of the rope. This has t

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Maurice Little
work OK and has not been commented on when site inspections are conducted. ML - Original Message - From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links At 07:05 PM 18/04/

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Jason Armistead
lan's son !) - Original Message - From: Armistead, Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links > As one who still does a fair bit of towing, there is no way I would operate > wi

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Kevin Conway
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Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Kevin Conway
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Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Kevin Conway
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Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Kevin Conway
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Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Simon Hackett
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RE: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Armistead, Allan
walk with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always be." Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519. -Original Message- From: Simon Hackett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2001 0:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

RE: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Armistead, Allan
o da Vinci, 1452-1519. -Original Message- From: Jason Armistead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2001 23:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links As a passenger in RANGA's Piper Super Cub VH-FXH, I can distinctly remember Dad once finding t

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:05 PM 19/04/01 +1000, you wrote: >Maybe someone should start a weekly MOSP quiz on the list ... LOL !!! > >Regards > >Jason Armistead (Allan's son !) I had hoped that mindless quoting of the MOSP could be avoided. It can do no harm and might do some good to question the hidden assumptions

Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-20 Thread John Mason
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Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-19 Thread Kevin Conway
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Re: Re: [aus-soaring] Re: Weak Links

2001-04-18 Thread Pete Siddall
At the few clubs I've flown, the weak link has always been at the tug end of the rope. I'd hate one of those metal "fuse" types of weak link to be flailing around near the glider just after release... want as little mass out there as possible, please. I guess the rope kind of weak link wouldn't d