Response to a few items: Only Tim McCann makes the Tim McCann turnaround. All my products are manufactured in-house by me.
There are many occasions where the ability to pull the chute quickly through the turnaround has proven useful including lightning storm, illness/injury, herd of sheep moving across field, herd of cows moving across field, herd of soccer players moving across field, mad dog, mean bull, bee swarm, farm machine/mowers, ATVs, horse riders, landing aircraft, bandits, irate landowner, the fuzz and sometimes it saves a walk. I've set a towline across a country road knowing I could stomp on the winch and clear it quickly for traffic. Lines tend to twist together with elevated turnarounds but I've had a turnaround with a large diameter narrow pulley mounted on an elevated swivel (TA2 replaced by TA4) for years. In my opinion the number one turnaround design consideration is anti fouling. Pulleys and mounting hardware should be free of anything that could snag the line and have the ability to clear a load of towline dumped on top of or behind. Rollers should have low mass and be made of metal so they won't degrade in sunlight. Everyone has an opinion about the best turnaround, it depends on your application. If you only fly contests at a club field your needs are different than LSF tasking where you're likely to encounter some weird situations. You should buy them all just in case:-) Tim McCann LSF V #79 Harrison, AR AMA Contest Director - Leader Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.superskeg.com Injection Molded Landing Skids and Skegs Winches, Winch Kits, Turnarounds RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
