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Old 25th December 2012 | 07:59
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A and C
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I tend to agree but you are flying the simple glider tug variant with only one fuel tank and a limited flight profile. The aim of your multiple daily flights is to get the glider attached to your aircraft into a thermal and then get back on the ground to get the next glider into the air.

The club pilot may well be flying only two or three take offs a month with an aircraft that has three or four fuel tanks and about to navigate a route covering four hundred miles. I would suggest that the average club pilot has a lot more to think about that you do when launching the Robin but has a lot less currentcy on the aircraft..........hence the much tighter checklist procedures.
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