Hi All,
Never suggested we should abandon teaching visual hook up procedures and it
should remain part of our training. However, if a functioning radio is
available that is a safer, quicker and easier way of communicating. Having a
rope go over a wing while signalling not very nice. Best to give pilots
alternatives,
Harry Medlicott
From: Robert Hart
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:49 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Practice hook up procedure
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
â€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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