Winch Launching a Blanik L-13

Better not piss her off.....

Do you really have only one line on your winch? Not a lot of take off's, each day. This is so sad. Each flight will cost you a thousand dollars, I reckon. What a way to keep flying sailplanes unpopular. Sad it is.

Surprised at your launch hook, flown the Blanik in the UK and they all had tost type back release hook in the belly, never seen one with these fuselage mounted hooks.

The unholy mess when a 'pole bender' breaks the cable and it piles into the winch...

Bet that felt nice on the way up! Looks fun.

Showwwww!

I remember many years ago, it was scary to read in the Blanik manual how much its lifespan was reduced by winch launches.

Lekker sappig filmpje bro 👍👍👍 jaaaaaaaah.......

Hi, very interesting thema but bad realized. Much better wil bbe if you will show it from winch cabin with details of numbers on gauges. How much torque, how much rpms on engine and when ... Possible to create new video with it? Thank you very much.

Yup Strait up, I want to do this so bad

Does the cable just detach and fall. It looked like there was a small parachute on the end in that last moment?

We were getting up to about 1700-2000 feet in just under a minute from dead stop to release.