Our club is looking seriously into buying a winch, our new facility will
have 5k feet of runway space and a winch may well be the platform to use
in combination with the towplane. Does anyone have the accident
statistics compared to towing. Old Bob, The Purist
Rewriting the last sentence of the most recent data:
So with the modern launch practices, the rate of fatal or serious injury for winching is about 1.4 times higher than for aerotow, at a rate of about 1 per 500,000 launches.
Rewriting the last sentence of the most recent data:I, and others, thought the ratio was a little high; that is, the BGA group included accidents where the winch launch, as a method, was really not a contributing factor in the resulting accident. However, I believe those were included in the numbers to
So with the modern launch practices, the rate of fatal or serious injury for winching is about 1.4 times higher than for aerotow, at a rate of about 1 per 500,000 launches.
On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 7:10:26 AM UTC-6, bret...@gmail.com wrote:overcome the complacency that was a large factor in the poor rate that drove the initiative. Thus, my considered opinion is, that without compromises, winch launching is quite safe. That said, it is human nature to make some compromises sometimes as a
Rewriting the last sentence of the most recent data:
So with the modern launch practices, the rate of fatal or serious injury for winching is about 1.4 times higher than for aerotow, at a rate of about 1 per 500,000 launches.I, and others, thought the ratio was a little high; that is, the BGA group included accidents where the winch launch, as a method, was really not a contributing factor in the resulting accident. However, I believe those were included in the numbers to
Frank WhiteleyI certainly agree with the opinion and see no reason that winch launching should not be a viable launching method in this country many of our club gliders or individual owned gliders do not have CG hooks, making that a possible problem. It would be
Most gliders have provision for installation of a CG hook if not factory installed - or a forward hook for that matter.Just a very subjective data point: I learned flying gliders exclusively on the winch in Germany, my club did about 3,000 launches annually. I was a winch driver, enjoyed doing that and have over 3,000 of them in my logbook. During my 7 years in the club (
My winch qualification was done on a 2-22 with a forward hook. You don't get as high.
The 27 with a CG hook is just about the easiest glider I've ever flown on aerotow - as long as the tow pilot gives me 65 kt.
With a nose hook, you get pitch and yaw couples. The yaw couple is extra workload in turns.
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