Peter Creswick wrote:
You may be on the right track there Michael. It may well be that
under reporting is the real bottom line issue here.
Perhaps glider pilots in general are (for legal, pride and / or peer
ridicule reasons) unwilling to be forthcoming with incident reports in
the first place, unless something actually gets bent, broken, or hurt,
such that it can't be hidden. We have no idea (since the GFA will not
tell us) how many incident / accident reports they get each year. It
may be, that there are so few reports, that, that in itself, is the
big secret. If so, that is a real worry.
I think you are spot on here Peter.
I suggest you listen out in the bar of your club (and any clubs you
visit) and see how many unreported incidents you hear about. I would
also suggest that accidents such as heavy landings are also under
reported. There is damage (which makes it an accident), but it is
minimal and is only noticed when the cumulative effect becomes obvious.
We - glider pilots - are not under reporting and are breaking our
gliders, injuring and killing ourselves as a direct result of us not
being able to learn from what is going wrong and not only avoid the
mistakes of others but, more importantly, FIX THE SYSTEM that allows the
same sort of accident to keep occurring.
Just as an indication of how poor the reporting system actually is, as
an instructor under training a few years ago there was no mention
whatsoever of accident incident reporting.
We are changing this at our club and there are moves afoot to change
this across the state. For the full benefit, the change needs to be
system wide though.
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Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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