- Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:37 pm
#399257
Does anyone take a tether line with them in case they land out somewhere (and have to go and find gas) or want to take a break? Or do you simply point the glider into wind and lower the nose of the glider onto the ground? (I am talking about a wind strength of on the ground of less than 10 knots.)
I carry a line that I can use to tether my glider on the lee side of a fence, but I have never used it in the field.
One time I landed out (after a one-way cross country). While I waited for my ground crew, I disconnected the harness, and then disconnected the nose wires and laid the glider flat on the ground.
Have any of you tethered your FLPHG after landing in an unfamiliar field? What did you anchor the line to? (A fence? Tree stump?)
Video of that day (didn't film the landing, but the wind on the ground was about 13 knots).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ3Py1747k
I carry a line that I can use to tether my glider on the lee side of a fence, but I have never used it in the field.
One time I landed out (after a one-way cross country). While I waited for my ground crew, I disconnected the harness, and then disconnected the nose wires and laid the glider flat on the ground.
Have any of you tethered your FLPHG after landing in an unfamiliar field? What did you anchor the line to? (A fence? Tree stump?)
Video of that day (didn't film the landing, but the wind on the ground was about 13 knots).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ3Py1747k