----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 10:30 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] What is Safer?
| If it was up to me a pilot wouldn't be allowed out of the *circuit* until | he had done proper outlanding briefings and practical exercises of about 2 | hours in a motorglider involving about 12 field selections and approaches. | But then I wouldn't send anyone solo until they could pass the equivalent | of the power flying GFPT which involves quite a lot of forced landing | practice. <<<< snipped >>>>> Mike, >From what I have seen at Moorabbin, the so called "forced landing practice" is compromised by the requirement that the aircraft may not descend below 500ft. At least we train in motorgliders which lets the student get right down to very late final in the paddock. I believe some of the country GA flight schools do go below the 500 ft limit, but a large proportion of GA pilots are trained at places like Moorabbin, and haven't really seen whether their confident assertion that "yes I would have got into that paddock" is true or not. Cheers, John G. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
