http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec
Jim Rooney - 2013/02/15 06:48:18 UTC
Due to the rough conditions weak links were breaking just about every other tow and the two tugs worked hard to eventually get everyone off the ground successfully.
AP flies in OZ
I have no clue what they're using over there.
Really Jim?
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Jim Rooney - 2011/08/26 02:44:10 UTC
I find no disagreement in the professional community as to such.
I was under the impression the there was no disagreement in the professional community as to such. So did you just mean the US professional community in which...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3600
Weak link question
Jim Rooney - 2008/11/24 05:18:15 UTC
BTW, if you think I'm just spouting theory here, I've personally refused to tow a flight park owner over this very issue. I didn't want to clash, but I wasn't towing him. Yup, he wanted to tow with a doubled up weaklink. He eventually towed (behind me) with a single and sorry to disappoint any drama mongers, we're still friends. And lone gun crazy Rooney? Ten other tow pilots turned him down that day for the same reason.
...there's no disagreement (tolerated) in the professional community as to such? While the professional communities of other countries are all unanimously agreed around other standards - no doubt due to the peculiarities of their particular Coriolis Effect patterns? The Aussies are using...
http://ozreport.com/12.081
Weaklinks - the HGFA rules
Davis Straub - 2008/04/22 14:47:00 UTC
At the 2008 Forbes Flatlands Greenspot for the first time was used as the standard weaklink material (thanks in large part to the efforts of Bobby Bailey). We applaud these efforts to improve the safety of aerotowing by using a better weaklink material.
...even lighter/safer weak links than the US standard?
Actually, it sounds to me like...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Davis Straub - 2011/08/26 14:04:52 UTC
We had six weaklink breaks in a row at Zapata this year.
...they may be using HEAVIER / MORE DANGEROUS weak links than ours. They're one for two, we're zero for six after all.
And that WOULD explain...
http://ozreport.com/13.003
Forbes, day one, task one
Davis Straub - 2009/01/03 20:50:24 UTC
Forbes Airport, New South Wales
Steve Elliot came off the cart crooked and things went from bad to worse as he augured in. He was helicoptered to Orange and eventually to Sydney where the prognosis is not good. I'll update as I find out more.
...why the safety of that towing operation wasn't increased sufficiently.
When you were...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Jim Rooney - 2011/08/31 09:25:57 UTC
Only later, when we're visiting them in the hospital can they begin to hear what we've told them all along.
...visiting him in the hospital in his final hours...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Jim Rooney - 2011/08/26 07:51:12 UTC
Ok, here's something to chew on, while we're on the topic.
It's not going to taste nice, but it's the god's honest truth.
...did he accept God's honest truth? Or did he go to his grave unrepentant and damned for all eternity?
If by 'works' you mean protects pilots from unusual attitudes...
Um... where's the problem?
Oh right... you're preaching the sermon of the "purpose of a weaklink". Too bad reality is not so black and white.
Right Zack. We're talking hang gliding, aerotowing, weak links. There's absolutely NOTHING one can say too certifiably insane to be able to get away with it.
I guess we can expect Davis will scare himself eventually.
Naw.
Davis has been at an around all this plenty long enough to understand what's what and who's who.
Yep.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18695
How could this accident happen?
Davis Straub - 2010/01/28 06:10:17 UTC
I have tried to launch unhooked on aerotow and scooter tow.
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident2.jpg
http://ozreport.com/pub/images/fingerlakesaccident3.jpg
So what you're saying is that if you know what's what and who's who you can apply for a permit to up your weak link from 130 to 200 because the stronger weak link will realize that you're somebody very important and will blow in a lockout at the same tension a 130 would for any of the rabble?
I'll put money that he's using that new orange stuff like what they've got up at Morningside.
His are "sewn" right... ya know why?
Cuz the orange chord ones will slip under zero load if they're not sewn or glued.
And this is pertinent to the discussion how?
You can scare yourself pretty easily waiting for a 130 lb link to break and have no issues waiting for a 'strong' one to break.
So what?
You can scare yourself in a variety of ways.
You know what scares the fuck out of me? Getting behind some incompetent total fucking moron...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2467
weak links
Jim Rooney - 2007/08/01 13:47:23 UTC
Whatever's going on back there, I can fix it by giving you the rope.
Jim Rooney - 2007/08/01 19:49:30 UTC
It's more of this crappy argument that being on tow is somehow safer than being off tow.
...of a tug driver who's totally cool with violating the shit out of FAA aerotowing safety regulations...
http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3600
Weak link question
Jim Rooney - 2008/11/20 22:25:38 UTC
Something to bear in mind... the tug's weaklink is three strand.
For clarity... A normal single loop weaklink would be considered two. A tandem double loop is considered four.
In the tandem setup, the "weaklink" in the system is at the tug end, not the glider.
...and is neutralizing my midrange weak link with the bullshit fishing line he keeps on his end to protect his idiot fucking tow mast breakaway.
In your book however, anything less than the cable strength of the glider is OK?
I'll take a ten G weak link any day of the week before I go up on that bullshit that got your asshole buddy killed a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, sorry... nope. Not behind me at least... go be a test pilot behind someone else.
That's fine, Jim. I get WAY MORE enjoyment watching you guys improving the gene pool at each other's expense than I ever did going up behind a Dragonfly wondering at every second of the tow whether or not I was gonna be dumped and what state I'd be in WHEN it happened.
P.S. Speaking of test pilots...
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is urgently pushing for new hang-gliding industry standards after learning a hang-gliding pilot who suffered serious injuries in a crash three weeks ago had not clipped himself on to the glider.
Extreme Air tandem gliding pilot James (Jim) Rooney safely clipped his passenger into the glider before departing from the Coronet Peak launch site, near Queenstown, CAA sports and recreation manager Rex Kenny said yesterday.
In a video, he was seen to hold on to the glider for about fifty meters before hitting power lines.
Rooney and the passenger fell about fifteen meters to the ground.
How are you coming on those experiments you were doing for flying tandem gliders while dangling from the basetube?