Not to start a fight, but in my aerotowing experience it would not be a good thing to use down elevator as a release. Many sailplanes tend to over run the tow plane, adding down elevator would make this worse. If all else fails at least up elevator has a tendancy to slow things down.
Kristopher ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 11:30 PM Subject: [RCSE] Re:aero-towing HLG and other small gliders > Well, just in case it wasn't mentioned a bajillion times, one way to go is > rig your own release on the HLG to activate when you pull full deflection on > the elevator. There is plenty of debate which way to "excurse"; full-up or > full-down. Both versions have merit, myself, since full-up is my automatic > panic mode, even when it's wrong to do, If things go bad right off the bat, > I'd pull full up and try to loop out of it, like I do off the hi start. > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
