Towplane 1 with commercial pilot

It's 1:45 in the afternoon, a typical weekend of flight training activities. Your home airfield is a single 2000' x 150’ N/S runway (18 in use) with a 5 Kt wind from the SW. There is a E/W road 500’ North of the runway with Christmas tree farm North of the road. To the East is shopping center with single family dwellings East of there. To the South is a busy golf course and some farm land. To the West is a wooded public park. There is a farm field about ¼ mile SW of your field that is designated as an alternate landing field in the event of a low altitude rope break. All patterns are made to the west of the field to avoid overflying the homes to the east.

Each pilot has a different scenario. You may use any resources (radio, signals, etc) that are normally used. Your task is to fly the glider listed below through the described flight. A count down clock is used to coordinate the flight activities. The times listed below show the position and altitude of your glider or towplane at that time. Unless you act differently, your glider or towplane will be on the ground when the clock reaches T-0:00

Tug-1 with commercial pilot. You started working for this glider school about 6 weeks ago. You just towed the up a 1-26. During your check-out the chief tow pilot stressed the need for a managed decent to keep from shock cooling the engine. It was stressed that you monitor the cylinder head temps on the way down to prevent unnecessary wear and tear on the equipment. On the climb, you noticed that the temps were a little higher than normal. After the glider released, you moved off to the west and began the decent monitoring the cyl head temps as you go. Your plan is to level off at 800’ and head back to the airport. You will enter a right hand pattern for landing on runway 18.

Unless you act differently, the last 2:30 minutes of flight will proceed as follows:

T-2:30 1.5 miles SW at 1100’ AGL, speed gradually increasing

T-2:00 1.5 miles SW at 800’ AGL, at 110 mph heading back to runway

T-1:30 0.5 miles SW entering downwind leg

T-1:00 Opposite touchdown, speed has dropped to 70 mph 1^st notch of flaps deployed

T-0:30 on base leg

T-0:00 touchdown on runway 18