Sounds high to me. How many human piloted aircraft are there in the
world right now? http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/584144.html
Airliners are pretty much drones with on board human supervision occasionally.
There are other more significant threats to gliding and light
aviation.
Well there is a school of thought in CASA that
you can't take off if the environmental
conditions are such that they exceed the
limitations of the type certificate and/or aren't on the P charts.
A lot of German gliders were certificated under
the assumption of 38 Deg C max air temperature
an
> On 29 Oct 2017, at 3:33 PM, Gliding International
> wrote:
>
> 10. Are you worried about Drones? You should be! The conference in
> Switzerland last month brought forth a paper that declared aviators can
> expect to compete with seven million drones with seven metre wing spans by
> 203
It is time again for the new Gliding International and I will, as usual, go
looking for the item on Global Warming.
I used to find these articles irritating but now I have passed to the stage
of seeing the humorous side, especially as the intensity of the alarmists
rhetoric continues to ramp up..
The November issue goes in the mail October 31. The Digital issue will be
released on November 3.
The issue contains:
1. A review at length on the Twin Shark from Europe. This two seater has a
good future. The test flight report will appear in the following issue.
2. Meantime, we some ha
