DOF
Ah, you bring back happy memories of launching T21s with a home-made winch (on an old bus chassis) with the Kent club. I was just a 16 year old summer course pupil who knew little about gliders and less about winching. The selection process would probably be called victimisation nowadays. The training lasted all of 30 minutes and after that being left on my own to sort it out and be gassed by the leaking exhaust under the cab. I seem to remember that the cable broke frequently but we all had a good time and I got a gliding C in two weeks.
Happy days.