> > I seriously suspect that the gliding community as a whole has an attitude > problem that compromises its safety. >
Not from my experience in Queensland! All my instructors and some have come from NSW, Victoria and WA have always been very professional in their attitudes to safety, training and flying. Maintenance has been likewise! PeterS AEI. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [aus-soaring] Accident and fatality rates of Gliding versus General Aviation > 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. > > -- * 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.
