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There's no way to make these safe - it's almost comical and this could be an April 1st joke.

Case 1) how are you handling potential rapid TCAS climbs/decent? You're making the targets a lot larger and less responsive. If TCAS commands a decent and slow down, you will be overtaken by the tow.

Case 2) landings thay require rapid braking, such as short runways for emergencies or engine fires (rapid brakes used so emergency vehicles don't have to chase 2km to get to you)

Case 3) aborted take offs. Brakes will need to be more performant and reactive than the ones we have on the main aircraft

Case 4) taxiing across active runways now has reduced margins.

Case 5) go-around performance is diminished. Already sometimes tight margins on that, what happens if you need to do a go around but the landing gear on the glider collapsed and is now a ground anchor?



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