hook in faliure (almost)
I DESPISE dickheads incapable of spelling the piece of hardware they use to connect themselves to their gliders. Should be a one year suspension of rating on the first offense and a permanent revocation on the second.Jeff Chipman - 2016/11/08 18:34:23 UTC
Sylmar
Carabineer Position
How do you ever manage to cope with the false sense of security a forced and constant hook-in check gives you?While using Ron's Tenax 3 while I was in AZ, hook in checks before launching were of course taking care of themselves since you are lying down in the cart before launching.
Which wouldn't happen without the pain-in-the-ass locking gate.However, the issue I had was the carabineer rotating on me and laying on the locking gate.
And of course your crowd is too fucking stupid to stabilize things with a loop of eighth inch bungee cord or a rubber band.This was primarily because there was nothing to keep the orientation of the carabineer from rotating.
Oh good, somebody fixed your problem for you.My new Tenax 4 has an "O" ring to keep this from happening.
Yeah. Otherwise when you're pulling ten Gs your carabinEEr could break minor axis and you'd fall to your death...So a hook in check is good, but it should also include a process that ensures your carabineer cannot be oriented incorrectly.
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...the way so many others who've launched minor axis before you have.
I also DESPISE dickheads who sabotage unhooked launch discussions with trivial and totally irrelevant bullshit preflight issue comments.
Awesome culture you've created over there, Joe. Keep up the great work.
P.S. Note from the photos - as I just did - that with the locking mechanism hang-up the carabiner is STILL more major than minor axis and the strength compromise is thus even more stupidly irrelevant to any hang glider safety discussion. And until somebody produces a photo of or runs a simulation to produce something worse this is the assumption under which we're gonna be operating.
