Re: [Aus-soaring] Practice hook up procedure

[Robert Hart]

On 20/03/12 19:49, Mike Borgelt wrote: At 07:45 PM 20/03/2012, you wrote: Hi All,   After going through the hook up procedures with a trainee I always ask ”is this what you would do in a real emergency?” The answer is always yes. I reply “what about using the radio – much safer” The GFA manuals should be brought up to date. The effort for many years was to avoid making the carriage of a radio in a glider mandatory and all procedures assume a radio is unavailable.   Harry Medlicott    Yep 100+ years after the invention of radio we still use a form of semaphore using the entire sailplane. Great. What a pitiful organisation. I have to disagree here. Whilst using the radio is what we would normally do (and I discuss this with my students as part of the briefing for a hook up), having a fall back method is still very important when radio problems in tugs and gliders are a known issue. I have experienced far too many radio problems in club gliders (and tugs) to give up the "whole glider as semaphore" method as a necessary fall back. If we are about safety - and we are - we need to make sure that we cover known problems (and radio in gliders/tugs is a known problem). I would strongly oppose the removal of the current hook up procedures in favour of a radio only procedure. -- Robert Hart ha...@interweft.com.au +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au

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