No fancy hand signals or tail waggling needed on the ground…. Take off: In France glider pilot makes a short radio call to indicate they are ready. Then the tip is kept down until slack is taken up. Then the wing is brought to horizontal. In Germany and in New Zealand they use the radio. Commands are in the line of: take up slack, all out, or stop stop. . After take off: If tow plane wants glider to release then it rocks the wings. If the glider behaves dangerously like kiting above the tow plane releases. If there is a problem with the glider on release, the glider does waggle the tail so it clearly yaws left and right. Depending on the situation the glider tries to release again. Then there is the option that both glider and tow return to the airfield and if needed glider and tow plane land together.
The rudder waggle in your film is in error. What the tow pilot did was a tail yaw which mans tow plane cannot release. Rudder waggle is a "flutter" not a yaw....please correct...Thanks for the effort.
No fancy hand signals or tail waggling needed on the ground…. Take off: In France glider pilot makes a short radio call to indicate they are ready. Then the tip is kept down until slack is taken up. Then the wing is brought to horizontal. In Germany and in New Zealand they use the radio. Commands are in the line of: take up slack, all out, or stop stop. .
After take off: If tow plane wants glider to release then it rocks the wings. If the glider behaves dangerously like kiting above the tow plane releases. If there is a problem with the glider on release, the glider does waggle the tail so it clearly yaws left and right. Depending on the situation the glider tries to release again. Then there is the option that both glider and tow return to the airfield and if needed glider and tow plane land together.
This is great! The slack line especially is good to see.
Excellent video.
What is that constant beeping noise inside the glider?
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The rudder waggle in your film is in error. What the tow pilot did was a tail yaw which mans tow plane cannot release. Rudder waggle is a "flutter" not a yaw....please correct...Thanks for the effort.