>It's possible, by changing the finish rules, to reduce the accidents >relating to low finishes.
Is it? How did you establish this? > Why not do it? The rules were changed in response to the recent accidents. We went from a 0ft 3km finish, to a 200-500ft 3km finish. (Keeping in mind 3km is not 3km to the airfield boundary, rather ~1.5km). There were many arguments for an against, but the general consensus seems to be the finish height is the safest option. On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:14 AM, DMcD <slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>"More people die in comps than during non-competition flying" > > >>I do not think you can defend this statement with numbers. > > OK, perhaps a bit of clarification is needed. It's probable that the > statistics overall are not enough to prove anything one way or > another. However… > > There have been a significant number of accidents and fatalities in > the last few years during comps which were related a style of flying > which is unique to comps… low finishes. This type of accident is rare > or non-existent outside comp flying. > > Mid-air collisions were common in gliding a decade and more ago. FLARM > and better rules appear to have lowered this risk to acceptable > standards (except perhaps in GP style racing.) > > It's possible, by changing the finish rules, to reduce the accidents > relating to low finishes. Why not do it? > > There are a significant number of non-comp pilots who would fly comps > if the perceived risks were lower. A number of these people are not > comps averse… they regularly do things like sailing comps. > > And I don't think you could compare gliding with motorcycle riding > (racing maybe). In terms of deaths per hundred thousand rider or comp > pilot hours, you'd find a difference of several orders of magnitude. > We have what… 2500 pilots active in Australia? And how many die each > year? 1-2? > > D > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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