To fix a problem it is first necessary to acknowledge its existence.
Why do you come here to act as the GFA Board troll?
Mike
At 04:44 PM 2/14/2017, you wrote:
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
<<mailto:mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com>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 flyingà 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:
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It is generally acknowledged thatà 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:
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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
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