are you willing to actually do something constructive or just happy to continue to sling mostly repetitive inflammatory mud.
> On 14 Feb 2017, at 5:38 PM, Mike Borgelt <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> > wrote: > > At 06:12 AM 2/12/2017, you wrote: > >> So the LAW provides that after 40hours of tuition and post solo flying a >> PPL(A) holder can throw his wife and kids in a plane and fly across >> Australia. >> >> What makes gliding so special? Why does only 10% of power time count towards >> an independent operators ticket when your glider time counts 100% for a PPL >> (CASR 61.070)? >> >> The accident statistics expressed as accidents/fatalities per 100,000 hours >> are flawed when it comes to gliding. The hours flown in gliders supplied to >> BITRE by GFA are clearly a fabrication. The latest published report is 2013: >> >> >> <aedfc531.png> >> >> It is generally acknowledged that there are less than 700 gliders with >> Form2's and consequently capable of being flown. If 700 aircraft flew >> 182,500 hours the average per aircraft is about 260 hours per aircraft - >> obviously BS. >> >> The best guess estimate would be closer to 40,000 hours in which case the >> accident rate would be 3 to 4 times higher. >> >> These assertions are supported by the BITRE report from 2004: >> >> <aedfc541.png> >> >> Note that the hours per aircraft are around 60 hours per annum (even if all >> were airworthy) and the hours per launch is around 0.7.(by 2013 this had >> doubled) Note also the consistent decline in the hours flown and the lack of >> statistics for 2000 -2004. >> >> It can only be concluded that any accident rate claimed for gliding is not >> based on fact and is most likely 3-4 times higher than claimed. > > > > > > > So everybody here is OK with silly restrictions on experienced pilots imposed > by a system that cannot even maintain quality or discipline on the instructor > body? Or report honestly to the government when required to. > > That Beverley crash (I won't call these accidents) is disgraceful. As was the > Ararat crash and a similar crash with somewhat less tragic outcome at > Beverley a few years before that. How many more of these instructors are > lurking in the system? > > Mike > > > > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation > since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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