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MORE TENSION Written by Brian Fotheringham Edited by Michael Robertson Leslie Updated by Peter Darian TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 2 Introduction 3 The History of Towing 4 Equipment 5 First Tows 8 Progressions 9 Paragliding 11 Higher Altitude Flights 12 Reserve Parachute 15 Step Towing 17 Dolly Launches 21 Radio Operation 23 Rope Retrieval 24 Signals 25 Summary 26 Tow Savvy Test 28 FOREWORD Having gone through just over a year of towing after my intro. course on the bunny hill, Ive experienced the ups and downs of learning towing. (I also spent many a weekend sitting in a field waiting for the winds to drop to beginner level so I could have the chance to learn towing.) During that time, I began doing much of the writing for, and editing of the newsletter for our tow club. It only seemed a natural extension to take on the task of creating a tow manual seeing as writing is now in my blood and learning to tow is still fresh in my mind (especially the what not to do parts of it). So here we are... Hopefully writing this manual from the point of view of one who has just this past year learned the contents within, will ensure that all pertinent little tid-bits of insider information will be passed to the reader. It seems as though just like everything else, the more we advance as pilots, the more we forget some of the little, less important but helpful things we learned as beginners. Although the bulk of the information comes from my year of experience, Michael Roberston and Leslie (last name withheld due to camera shyness), a couple of old pros at this towing thing, have done a job on editing this writing to ensure that anything of importance which I havent thought of or experienced still gets its place in these pages. The end result is a manual written with the combined forces of young and old experience alike. Ive just started to develop int