Mike, Lighten up! I thought it was funny. Clearly not to you. This place is so serious Mark
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:53 AM, DMcD <slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Compulsory spinning every year is a lot of risk exposure for dubious to > zero benefit on the accidental spin in stats. It will no doubt cause some > people to simply give up gliding. > > Personally, I don't have a problem with spinning or getting into > incipient spins where it's initiated by me, accidental or otherwise in > either my aircraft or one which I know. > > I do not like at all the idea of spinning with anyone else in the > glider, or in a glider which I either don't know or don't trust. > > This is not a comment about instructors per se but about individual > responsibility and human fallibility. > > I can remember turning up as a visitor at a club and within a few > minutes, the instructor wants to see how I can spin the aircraft. I > don't know him, the aircraft or the site. Why take the risk? Why not > concentrate on not spinning? > > When so many countries and aviation authorities have come to the same > conclusion, why do we in Australia have to be out of step? > > D > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > -- Mark Fisher Managing Director Swift Performance Equipment Unit 2, 1472 Boundary Rd Wacol 4076 Australia Ph: +61 7 3879 3005 Fax: +61 7 36076277 www.spe.com.au
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