I got lucky and in my years of gliding never had an actual rope break. In fact I only ever heard of one happening at this place while I worked there. They had the ropes down to an art though, inspected multiple times a day and the end inspected on every launch, custom covers for the ring to protect it while dragged down the runway, it was fancy. Being a training facility I suppose that’s smart. Closest I got was during my instructor training with the chief pilot, that’s the only person allowed to do unbriefed emergency simulations. It definitely caught me off guard!
Yeah same, except I had a bunch of actual rope breaks (faulty rope). It’s fucking harrowing.
I got lucky and in my years of gliding never had an actual rope break. In fact I only ever heard of one happening at this place while I worked there. They had the ropes down to an art though, inspected multiple times a day and the end inspected on every launch, custom covers for the ring to protect it while dragged down the runway, it was fancy. Being a training facility I suppose that’s smart. Closest I got was during my instructor training with the chief pilot, that’s the only person allowed to do unbriefed emergency simulations. It definitely caught me off guard!