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Perhaps the
point may be that there are people new to gliding, like myself, venturing away
from home base for the first time and faced with putting all the training into
practice.
This
represents a steep part of the learning curve, and a time when the experience
[positive & negative] of all who've gone before is invaluable.
I gather the
resistance to 'crash comics' is the work involved in preparing them for
publication. The HGFA go to the bother, the fact that there are no
accident/incident reports from the GFA is perhaps a little
misleading.
I know
relying on not making the same mistake as others probably means one may
find an entirely original way to prang an aircraft, but at this stage,
among all the challenges I face, I would like to be able to consider my
vulnerability to making mistakes others have made, as well as the ones I may
make for myself.
There
has been debate about recruitment or the lack there-of, of new pilots.
Maybe the argument that 'there are no new ways of wrecking a glider, ergo let's
not talk about it' ignores what recruitment there is.
There is also that saying that in a
lot of pursuits it is the very young [inexperienced] and the very old
[complacent] who get caught.
From what I've heard of accidents etc
so far, there are more than enough experienced pilots, who should know
better, getting themselves into trouble. Maybe finding oneself thinking
'I've heard it before, there is nothing new' should be an alert
to possible complacency!
.......besides,
I love a good comic......my local paper has a roundup of local policing called
'On the Beat', it's the best part of the paper!
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