Mike The safety of winching could be significantly advanced if the modification you propose or something similar could be developed and implemented.
> >Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Interesting article on stalls and avoiding stalling in the latest > > > "Australian Flying". Basically don't pull the stick back too far! > > > > > > Seems stick position awareness might be the key to in > > > training to avoid unintended stalling. > > > I think you are missing the point. Aviation has been training pilots > to maintain a safe airspeed for the last 100 years and we still have > accidents that involve inadvertent loss of control through stalling > and its consequences. I did not miss the point. I agree with you entirely. It would be much easier to construct something like this than to try and figure out why people do not do as they are trained. People are much more difficult to understand and control than machines. Having said that, any mod like this could take a fair while to develop and test by competant people. -Who is likely to do it ? -WIFM ? -Will they be allowed to do it ? -Will they have the right development skills and attitudes to develop it safely ? -Would anyone bother to put it in their glider because most people will say they are too smart/skilled or whatever to make such a silly mistake as fly too slowly ? An inclinometer was proposed a few years ago to be used for hang gliders to stop all the stalls and crashes that happen. The instructors said that they were all too good to need such a device and that they would train their students well so they did not need a device like this. No such device is known to be in use and still they keep crashing from unintentional stalls. How do you tell anyone they need help ? > > > > Maybe a strong compression spring could be arranged so that at the > > > stick position for minimum sink pulling the stick further back > > > requires noticeable extra effort. The position will depend on the C > > > of G position but this could be dialled in after doing that calculation. > > > Anyway, read the article. It is made quite clear that fore and aft > stick position is all there is to it. I don't have easy access to the article in "Australian Flying" so I will take your word for it. Michael Derry _______________________________________________ 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
