To run a contest you need to be able to launch planes at a fairly good clip.
A plane that has left the hand of the launcher and is on the line has very few
options, it must go up the line pretty much in a fixed path.
Planes thermalling can go all over the sky. They can fly away from the lines at
any time.
Planes landing have lots of choices as to where they fly, if not when. Making
a landing approach over the winch lines is a very dangerous practice. You can
do it but there is always the risk of catching the line.
Remember, you might be able to tell right where the turnaround is but a pilot
launching is at the other end of the field and cannot easily tell.
Remember also that even if you survive an encounter with the winch line your
time stops the moment your plane touches any ground based object.
The rule is there so you can launch planes even if there is a thermal over the
turnaround. The rule does not prohibit thermalling over the turn around nor does
it limit transiting the launch area. It does put the blame where it belongs, on
the pilot who can most easily avoid a collision.
There is also rule 10.1.g
Model sailplanes shall be launched as rapidly as possible during any given
flight round
with due regard for frequency control and safety. ...
Now in RCHLG the story is different. A pilot can throw his plane in a variety of
directions and can turn during the climb. So this rule would not be meaningfull
for HLG. Besides, once the plane has left the hand of the pilot in HLG it is no
longer 'attached to the launch equipment' so the rule no longer applies anyway.
--
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>
> A quick search failed to come up with my AMA handbook - it's here somewhere,
> but I assume 10.1.e is an AMA rule. I'm curious as to the background of this
> rule. If I was a winchmaster I'd never launch a contestant into a plane that
> was just flying along on the basis of what is essentially a "right of way"
> rule. It seems to me that you don't have to launch, but with a sailplane you
> do have to come down. Wouldn't it make more sense to give precedence to the
> flying or landing plane rather than the launching plane?
>
> Do I have to put on my flame suit over this innocuous question?
>
> Richard Shilling
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