Hi all,
Under Airworthiness-Docs/Forms
AIR0003 Crashworthiness.pdf
Cheers
/Tim Shirley/
/tra dire é fare c' é mezzo il mare/
On 07/04/2014 11:28, Gary Stevenson wrote:
These people get the foam in a large billet, and will cut you a piece to the
size and thickness required. From memory, their price was NOT competitive,
but that was years ago - maybe they now do a better deal?
Confor is a brand name, and other manufacturers (in the USA), make similar
products. Note the plural in products: As well as different thicknesses the
foam is made in different densities, which are usually colour coded. For
Confor, green is the way to go. I think the blue product that Ian refers to
MAY be produced by another manufacturer. Ian??
To the best of my knowledge this type of foam is not manufactured in
Australia. Can anybody prove me wrong/advise of an Australian manufacturer?
I note that Cumulus Soaring in the States is also a retail supplier.
GFA on its old web site had a useful discussion on the product, but I do not
know if this information was carried across to the new site. Tim Shirley, do
you know?
As a matter of interest the impact absorbing foam (Confor etc), can be
layered with other products too. I bought a layer of memory foam (as used
for comfort on some wheel-chairs), but never got around to actually making
it up and using it with the Confor in my glider cushion.
Regards,
Gary
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] confor foam
Doesn't necessarily need to come from the States, though I am not sure of
their pricing.
http://specialtyfoams.com.au
Regs
Ben
On Mon, Apr 7th, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Ian Mc Phee <mrsoar...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday at Chris Thorps GFA safety seminar at Archerfield I gave a
demo
of 1 inch blue confor memory foam. Some people there obviously did not
know about confor foam and recently a friend of mine is a southern state
was involved in a ground loop in ASK 13 caused by long grass catching one
wing and other wing gaining extra lift and whole glider lifted in the
air.
He was dumped from about 1metre leaving him with injured back for 2 or
so
months. He knew nothing of confor foam' and did not have same. Glider
was
all but undamaged.
Here is the link to confor foam
http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cmpages/conForFoan.php?clickkey=5944
It does cost $US23.50 for BLUE PAD 1 inch think (is all you need for
protection) and post per pad will be say $20 but that is minor to
injuries
it may prevent.
Personally I will not sign a form 2 unless the glider is equipped with
confor foam or they get a long talk that they have to order it NOW.
We wear seat belts in gliders and cars always so why not have confor in
all
gliders we fly and costs a lot less than a parachute and is equally
important I believe. $50 is the cheapest one off insurance policy you
will
ever buy in gliding.
If you want more proof go to the BGA web site for article on its use and
the front cover will be a photo of a Swift glider crashing and pilot
walks
away. The video or is it a series of still photos of the crash.
Thanks to Jenny Ganderton most of the gliders at Keepit have confor in
almost all gliders.
Personally I think GFA should mandate the use of confor instead of highly
recommending it but at least that is a start..
Ian McPhee
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