On Mon, 09 May 2005 07:59:30 +1000, you wrote: <<<big snip>>> > I find it really sad that the people who have chosen themselves to > administer gliding are prepared to offer feeble excuses as to why they > won't publicly investigate accidents and despite rhetoric about "safety" > and voluminous rule books full of nit picking rules all justified on the > grounds of "safety" they are prepared to deny their fellow glider pilots > one of the safety tools considered valuable by the rest of the world's > aviation organisations. > > Last I heard the GFA has plenty of money. One way around the legal issues > would be to just do the investigations and go to court if necessary. Worst > case the GFA goes broke. So what? Best case the GFA wins in court and sets > a legal precedent. > I suspect the legal issues are just a distraction. Maybe the fearless > leaders are really worried that a reasonably independent accident > investigation system will simply find over time that real problem is > systematic. > > In the meantime we can just sit around and speculate as to which accidents > might not have happened if wider dissemination of accident reporting had > occurred. > > Mike
Mike, I have heard that ATSB no longer investigates any sport aircraft accidents, so where will the accident investigation reports come from for the future. Cheers, John G. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring