Funston pilot launched unhooked
Posted:
Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:37 amby Steve Rodrigues
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A well liked and long time Funston pilot launched unhooked yesterday. He survived with minor injuries but this proves it can happen to the best of us.
Please pass the word and burn a routine hang-check into your memory and launch routine.
Don't want to lose any more friends.
Re: Funston pilot launched unhooked
Posted:
Sun Jan 22, 2017 5:33 pmby Alan
brianscharp wrote:http://www.energykitesystems.net/Lift/hgh/TadEareckson/FTHI.pdf
Does Tad ever make it around these parts? I never met him but that 2000 word rant is epic.
Re: Funston pilot launched unhooked
Posted:
Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:30 amby brianscharp
Alan wrote:Does Tad ever make it around these parts?
You can reach him here.
http://www.kitestrings.orgAlan wrote:I never met him but that 2000 word rant is epic.
You mean the classic Tad Eareckson essay "
the gun is always loaded" ?
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.ph ... 046#358046Alan wrote: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 peoples 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.