An exceptional day when I was participating in the national championships in Porterville in 1991.
I gain altitude and head towards Bumpy Peak. I observe the knot: a back line is tangled with some brake lines, creating a brake flap that slows me down and makes me turn. By pulling on the back line I see that I’m making the situation worse, so I think of freeing it completely!
I take off the plastic cover that covers the link, which fortunately I can unscrew by hand. I pass the first line over the nut, as it is the second one I want to remove. As I expected, once the line is free, the braking effect created by the knot is much weaker and I can resume my exceptional flight in an almost normal way.
Eric Laforge
