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[Tad Eareckson]

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?

Jim Rooney - 2011/08/26 02:44:10 UTC

The "purpose" of a weaklink is not in question. Your semantics are.
The "purpose" of a weaklink is to increase the safety of the towing operation. PERIOD.

[Tad Eareckson]

miguel - 2013/01/19 01:28:00 UTC

He explained rope break or weak link break, the nose points to the ground and you follow. Broken aluminum and broken bones follow that.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=20991
coated vs uncoated wires

Red Howard - 2011/02/22 06:50:21 UTC
Utah

I do not recommend "stepping" on a cable (I assume you mean in mid-span) as part of a preflight. If your foot hits the ground with the cable underneath, or sand or rocks are trapped in your shoe treads, you could damage the cable that you are testing.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28012

red - 2013/01/20
Utah

Please don't anybody put off a session of parachute deployment practice, just because you are waiting for one of these contraptions to somehow appear in your neighborhood. Even if there is some tiny value to it, it's way more important to be in good practice with your deployment skills, while spinning or even swinging.

Good thinking, red.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=14410
Wallaby fatality

David W. Johnson - 2009/11/17 13:51:26
Huntsville, Alabama

Wow! Malcolm and his team of professionals are so very careful about safety there.

[Steve Davy]

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=992
Continuing Saga of Weak Link and Release Mechanism Failures

Warren Narron - 2012/03/06 02:26:04 UTC

Tad, used to post about as nice as anyone, and nicer than some. Remember?

Blowback... You put in a thousand plus hour$, tooling, te$ting and documenting safety issues for the masses and have it ignored and suppressed by people, for whatever reason, and you would get testy too.
You're fairly snarky as it is, and you haven't done the work...

And you may be correct about the footnote... but today's footnotes are now hyperlinks...

There is a good chance that from now on, for every incident and fatality caused by insufficient weaklinks or sub-standard release mechanisms, a hyperlink trail will lead back to Tadtriedtowarnyou.com ... where all the evidence can be found.

A further link could then go to a list of all the people and the role they played in the suppression of those safety issues...
Who would like to be on that list?
How many are already on it?

[Tad Eareckson]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28290
Report about fatal accident at Quest Air Hang Gliding

Guest - 2013/02/08 04:21:13 UTC

...a small but strong thermal, and then the weaklink breaks. The horror...

[Tad Eareckson]

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Davis Straub - 2013/02/09 16:45:39 UTC

I can't see how the weaklink has anything to do with this accident.

[Tad Eareckson]

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec

Jim Rooney - 2013/02/11 09:13:01 UTC

Hey Deltaman.
Get fucked.

[deltaman]

http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28290
Report about fatal accident at Quest Air Hang Gliding

...a protow would have been much better here as the V-bridle allowed the carabineer to climb up toward the sail and pull the glider down.