Aerotow bridles:
Pilots who have flown at Quest Air or Wallaby are quite familiar with what it
takes to have a bridle that is easy to connect to the carabineer that is
connected to the end of the rope connected to the tug. The ground crew grabs the
carabineer and instantly connects you. They push open the gate of the carabineer
and clip it around a piece of spectra connected to you or to you and your
glider. No fuss, no muss.
We expect you to show up with a bridle that allows the ground crew to do this.
No weaklinks, rings or other paraphernalia in the way. Just a piece of rope or
spectra that they connect up to in two seconds.
The rope or spectra must come off the tug's carabineer when you release. We
don't want anything on the carabineer to slow down hooking up the next pilot to
the tug.
When you are in line to fly you need to be ready to launch. Just make sure that
your loop of rope is ready and out there available to be connected to.
Aircraft radios:
We will be using aircraft radios at the Zapata airstrip to handle any aircraft
traffic on the runway. If you have an aircraft radio please bring it with you so
that we are adequately covered in this respect. We will monitor the airport's
frequency to check for incoming traffic and clear all our takeoff's and landings
on this frequency.
http://www.airnav.com/airport/T86
Davis Straub
davis@davisstraub.com
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