Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Well the Pete Cesco thread turned into a useful discussion on safety. All to the good. I understand the desire to move the finish away from the airfield but making at the ground 3Km out was so obviously stupid I still can't believe it. We've only severely broken two gliders and risked pilots

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Mark, Yes. Also I really liked your guest article in the last AOPA magazine. Can you post it here? Mike At 10:42 AM 3/3/2016, you wrote: On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Peter (PCS3) <p...@internode.on.net> wrote: As an L2 instructor, I teach that glider pilots have

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Very useful, Mark - thanks for letting us in on your thinking, it makes a lot of sense!! Kind regards Bernard > On 3 Mar 2016, at 11:12 AM, Mark Newton wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Peter (PCS3) > wrote: >> As an L2 instructor, I teach that glider pil

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Peter (PCS3) wrote: > As an L2 instructor, I teach that glider pilots have to be flexible and not > fixate on landing on the RWY they took off on. I also quote that we had a > spin in and death at our airfield of a pilot who was flying with RAA. His > beautiful self

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

now that reports accidents and incidents are captured in a modern IT system (SOAR) the actual events can be readily accessed and analysed perhaps an annual summary analysis of events registered in SOAR would give our community better clearer insight (chris?) I feel that there may be a lot of as

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

>> 500' at 3k approaching over the lake. I have never forgotten that lesson of >> "what are my options""What are my options" Listen to the voices of inbound comp pilots… there's a whole lot of tension compared with inbound non-comp pilots. I'd guess, very few options are available other than t

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

On 2/03/2016 3:50 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: come to the comps and find out... NSW states are about to happen there. on the day, it was an appropriate margin as determined by the race stewards. the pilots all agreed by show of hand. seems a responsible approach (opps no pun) to creating the

[Aus-soaring] Unballasted Handicaps 2015-16

Would someone be so kind and please check the Unballasted Handicaps 2015-16 as published on the GFA website: http://www.doc.glidingaustralia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&view=list&slug=competitions&Itemid=121&layout=table example for un-ballasted: ASH 26E 440kJ 1145 ASG 29 390kJ 1135 Is this di

Re: [Aus-soaring] Mecaplex clearview vent

Ian Linke on 0414251378 can help you out with that as well as rails and the whole thing if necessary. Cheers Leigh BUNTING Balaklava GC ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

[Aus-soaring] Mecaplex clearview vent

Hello all. Does any one have, or links to a Mecaplex flip out clearview vent assembly, I'm looking for just the square perspex insert that fits in the clearview panel Many thanks ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists

[Aus-soaring] New ClearNav vario 3.3 software & MFD PC Simulator

New 3.3 software for CN vario should be on the Web site tonight with notes. Also for those with ClearNav multi function display below is link to a PC Simulator which makes it easy learning the MFD http://www.clearnav.net/main/cn-simulator.html Copy Australian maps into the map folder of the simu

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Yeah, I'm a bit confused by that statement also ... Col Whisson 0459 121 457 On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:32 PM -0800, "Optusnet" wrote: I am laughing so hard I think I just s_at myself Sent from my iPad > On 2 Mar 2016, at 4:54 PM, Matt Gage wrote: > > The height is intended to b