All this talk about aerotowing has me intrigued. I've never done it but it
seems to me that it'd be a most enjoyable way to launch.
What are the general rules of thumb regarding methods, setup and behavior?
Bill Swingle
Janesville, CA
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In a message dated 1/11/2006 5:12:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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What are the general rules of thumb regarding methods, setup and behavior?
See http://www.soaringissa.org/Default.htm. John Derstine's links don't
work anymore, but the ones that do cover the various
Naturally, the Derstine page roughly titled
What are the procedures for towing and what must the tow pilot and
sailplane pilot do during the tow?
Interests me the most. Any one have a link to something similar?
Bill Swingle
Janesville, CA
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aerotowing
This probably doesn't help Bill, but I can see the full circle now. Many
sailplane clubs were off shoots of power clubs and with aerotowing
becoming
popular I can see the migration back to the power clubs.
Aerotow is very similar to an ROG winch tow, but Aerotow
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aerotowing
I find that Aerotow is easier than other types of launching. Sailplane
pilot keeps the wings level and the tow pilot does the rest
Bill,
In April there will be two aerotow events in the Central valley (Ca).
One is in early apirl with CVRC and the next one in Los Banos Scale
event in End of April hosted by SBSS(http://sbss.org/scale.html) On
top of that, I think SVSS have aerotow events and SBSS has monthly
aero tow on
a great way
to go!
Jonathan
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From: Lee Estingoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:37 PM
To: Tom Broeski; Ray Hayes; Bill Swingle; Soaring@airage.com
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aerotowing
The Derstine page was a good start, although it was far
Subject: [RCSE] Aerotowing
All this talk about aerotowing has me intrigued. I've never done it but it
seems to me that it'd be a most enjoyable way to launch.
What are the general rules of thumb regarding methods, setup and behavior?
Bill Swingle
Janesville, CA
RCSE-List facilities provided
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Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:16 PM
To: Bill Swingle; Soaring@airage.com
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aerotowing
Say Hey Bill!
Although I'm a former Navy guy, I checked with some bro's on the ~other
side~, and got some good advise here for ya:
General Rules of Thumb are the following
Chris Gregg writes:
but trouble on the downwind leg.
Remember to the plane(s) there is no such
thing as an "upwind" or "downwind" leg.
The towpilot is most likely slowing the plane
down on the downwind leg, since from a
ground-speed perspective the plane appears
to speed up when travelling
At 07:21 PM 4/2/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember seeing a website about aerotowing HLGs using a MPX twinstar.
Anyone have that address handy? Anyone have tips?
http://www.mcs.net/~bacuslab/HlgAerotow.html
Enjoy,
Jim
Downers Grove, IL
ICQ 6997780
Visit my R/C Soaring Page at
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