http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=31781
Another hang check lesson
Paul Hurless - 2014/09/27 17:48:14 UTC
Sparks, Nevada
It is very possible. I fly with a single strap harness (Moyes Contour) and I launch with a tight hang strap and I have always used the lift and tug method as I was taught to since my first flight.
By whom? I can document ZERO USHGA Instructors who have ever taught anything that complies with the USHGA regulation.
I also don't rest the down tubes on my shoulders so I don't have to let them slide up as I run.
It's just a matter of technique. How you hold the down tubes is what makes it possible for you or not.
Bullshit. For some pilot/glider/harness combos it's not practical.
Paul Hurless - 2014/09/27 17:54:15 UTC
Lift and tug, which was not invented by Tad...
Quote Tad or anybody else stating that it was. Read the fuckin' article:
By at least the late Seventies the independent thinkers had figured out how to completely eliminate the delay and confirm the existence of some sort of connection and leg loops engagement all with the same stone.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=13359
Today was a bad day!
Tad Eareckson - 2009/09/16 17:48:46 UTC
I made a dozen parachute jumps in the early Seventies. Loved the part after the canopy was open and I got to fly but was scared pretty much shitless waiting for that to happen.
Hang gliders started hitting the scene not long after that and I always knew that was what I was gonna do but didn't get around to it until Easter weekend of 1980.
Does that sound like I'm claiming any credit for it?
Here's the earliest reference to it I can find:
Hang Gliding - 1977/10
During the Nationals two people forgot to hook up before flying. I was one of them. The one thing which made my failure to hook-up totally inexcusable is that I had a passenger with me.
My passenger and I had prepared to take off four times, including a static check the first time. Each time the wind died I unhooked while Cindy remained attached the glider. The last time we moved into position. I made sure she was hooked in, then I sat down next to her. We waited about five minutes, until the wind blew up the hill. We picked the glider up and I felt the tension of the harness, only it was the tension from her harness I felt, not mine. The take off run went great and airspeed picked up rapidly. By the time I realized something was wrong, Cindy was flying off a 900' hill on her first solo flight. As I watched in horror, she made a porpoising flight, a 180 degree turn, and then made a safe landing. She suffered a few scratches and the glider was undamaged.
I want to apologize to the people of Heavener, and everybody involved with the meet for almost leaving a horrible scar on the Nationals. I especially want to apologize to Cindy for taking her life into my hands and then committing such a careless error.
I used to say such a thing could never happen to me, but now I know it can happen to anybody. So everybody please be careful.
Name withheld by request
I didn't do my first dedicated lift and tug until the fall of 1980 when I was working as a dune instructor and another instructor tuned me in.
...isn't a banned subject.
It most assuredly is in anything that comes out of USHGA, HPAC, and the Vancouver Sun.
The psychopathic Tad...
THIS:
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=31781
Another hang check lesson
Alan Deikman - 2014/09/23 19:47:06 UTC
Amazing how when this topic comes up every time you see people argue the same arguments over and over again. It has been a classic (although niche) endless Internet flame topic.
I suspect that some of the parties that have posted in threads like these before are refraining now since they have learned that it is nearly (completely?) impossible to change people's minds on the topic.
For my part I will just refer you to the classic Tad Eareckson essay which I call "
the gun is always loaded" which is a bit overworked but probably all you will ever need to read regarding FTHI. A lot of people will find it gores their particular sacred Ox, but I have never seen anyone point out a flaw in his logic.
...psychopathic Tad?
...and his rants...
Like that one?
...are what's banned.
Here's what's banned:
http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/HG_ORG_Mission_Statement
HG ORG Mission Statement - Hang Gliding Wiki
HangGliding.Org Rules and Policies
No posts or links about Bob K, Scott C Wise, Tad Eareckson and related people, or their material. ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED. These people are poison to this sport and are permanently banned from this site in every possible way imaginable.
MOTHERFUCKER. How very odd that the ban is very conspicuously not being enforced. Maybe you should make a public call to have something done about it.
I think there's a growing consensus that this sport needs a lot more psychopathic Tads and a lot fewer good ol' boy Pauls, Rooneys, Ryans, Davisses, and Jacks.
And while I'd never dream of claiming the slightest credit for instituting lift and tug I'll claim the crap out of instituting the "gun is always loaded" mindset which best explains why it works and is necessary and blows all the hang checker and Aussie Methodist douchebags...
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...out of the fuckin' water.
You don't like me 'cause I don't hesitate to call stupid rude pigfuckers such as yourself stupid rude pigfuckers. That ain't never gonna change. Get used to it.
