At 11:44 AM 27/08/04 +1000, you wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:27:30 +1000, Mike Borgelt wrote
>
>> In a dying, shrinking sport the last thing we need is mindless regulation
>> and enthusiastic jack booted amateurs eagerly enforcing "the law" or
>> doing so for the sake of "safety" or an illusory "insurance" policy.
>> While I generally don't want to see people leave gliding, in their
>> case I'll ask them to mind their own business or leave.
>
>Forget about the BBL or liability insurances, and think about glider hull
>insurance instead.
>
>Exactly how "illusory" would the glider insurance policy be if a club or
>syndicate pilot totalled the glider (and himself it he was not able to bail
>out) because he got hypoxic, either blacking out and losing control, or just
>doing something plain silly like exceeding Vne because he couldn't think
>straight, and the insurance company decided the flight was conducted
>illegally and thus they did not have to pay out on the resulting claim.
Glider hull insurance is the business of the owners of the glider.
Why do you want so much regulation so that your hull insurance may be
voided by some minor breach of a regulation?
That is what we are talking about here. People want a small easing of the
regulation so that someone can do a Gold C height climb starting from low
altitude
without necessarily having oxygen. The emerging concensus is that this is
quite reasonable although it is desirable to have oxygen.
While we are talking about regulation causing problems how about getting
rid of the UTTERLY STUPID two signatures on the DI after disconnection of
controls.
It not only puts the otehr signatory at so me legal risk but prevents
someone from operating a motorglider even out of a hangar at a remote
location because
he has to disconnect a control to do periodic lubrication of a L'Otellier
coupling.
Mike
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