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Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:01
PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Oxygen
At 04:17 PM 23/08/04 +1000, you
wrote:
>Brian
>
>In this day and age of litigation and fine
print "get out of jail free"
>clauses, I would think that any savvy
insurer's lawyers would pick up on the
>pilot being above 10,000 ft
without oxygen and try to invalidate the cover.
>
>Even more
worrying, when I asked about how oxygen (or lack thereof) applied
>to
FAI badge/certificate claims, I was told that it is not
checked.
>
>Indeed, there is no requirement on the part of the
Official Observer to make
>sure that the flight was legal with regard
to airspace violations or the
>carriage of oxygen.
>
>I
found this amazing, and still do. Why on earth are the FAI (and OOs and
>Certificates Officers) allowing pilots to tempt fate by flying in a
manner
>which is clearly illegal as well as potentially dangerous
? OK, so maybe
>different countries have different legal
requirements to comply, but surely
>the basic idea of "thou shalt
conduct your badge flight according to the
laws
>of the countries in
which you fly" should be a mandatory part of the FAI
>Sporting Code
rules.
>
>In the years I've been flying I know of several pilots
who have successfully
>claimed gold heights when they flew well above
10,000 ft without oxygen.
>
>As for me, I'll wait until a
wave camp or XC camp where I'm carrying the
>right gear before I get
above 10,000 ft. No ifs or buts about
it.
>
>Cheers
>
>Jason
Well maybe they don't do
that because they aren't policemen and do not want
to be
policemen.
If you seriously think the GFA BBL or any top up third party
cover is good
for more than showing the piece of paper to the contest
management I think
you are seriously deluded. But, no doubt, having the
piece of paper gives
you a warm and fuzzy feeling.
I bet they don't
even check that the people conformed to VMC criteria
either and didn't
climb closer than 1000 feet to cloudbase or didn't fly up
the side of cloud
in wave closer than 1.5 km to the cloud.
Now please don't tell us that
you have never climbed to cloudbase while
above 3000AMSL or at greater than
1000 feet AGL, Jason. Enough of the the
hypocrisy.
Would all those
who wish to be policemen please for chrissakes go and join
your state or
the federal police services where you can be gainfully
occupied harassing
real criminals and leave the rest of us alone?
Mike
Borgelt
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