Friday, the second last day of June 2012

BGA has done lots of work reducing the number of winch launch accidents with good results. But what about the winches? I got to know that for example at Mynd they have a scissor type of cable cutting device on a winch. The Mynd they had a fatality when the winch device could not cut the cable when it caught the cable and it dragged the glider to the ground. So, after that they got the new device which they also check every 29 days. But here is the guillotine which may not cut the cable when needed! It has not been tested said an instructor an hour ago! Must find out more about it... first of all is all that true!