I don't think the 'gliding training' accidents are tracked seperately like GA training. It would take some time and knowledge of the individual accidents to seperate the figures. There would be a couple of grey ones like the mid air between the two seater doing training and a single who was doing a practice comp. Just this one accident would skew the figures drastically with 'gliding training'.
Mike B does have a point in that GA training is done commercially by schools with (supposed) professional instructors. As such it is highly regulated and inspected. Gliding is more club based with (dare I say it!) a more amatuer (in the sense that it is a sport/hobby rather than a profession) group of instructors. As such, in my opinion, it is reasonable to expect a higher accident rate in gliding training than GA training (for a whole range of reasons) with the way we currently do business. However, I also do not think that simply scrapping all club based training in favour of professional gliding schools will work. I seriously suspect that the gliding community as a whole has an attitude problem that compromises its safety. I am looking forward to attending the Safety Seminar to be held at AUGC on 19 July and discussing this then. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2003 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Accident and fatality rates of Gliding versus General Aviation > THE FATALITY RATE PER YEAR PER 100,000 HOURS FOR GLIDING IS COMPARABLE IF > NOT HIGHER, BY 6 TIMES, THAN FLIGHT TRAINING (FIXED WING) > What about gliding flight training v GA flight training, that would be a more reasonable comparison surely. Greg O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
