How many accidents happen at comps that come from mid air collisions?
Most I would say.
Should we not ban gaggle flying as a rule, and would this not cut down on
the numbers of fatalities that drag our sport into the 'dangerous' category?
Think of the savings of life, money and even club exis
Hi all
I just received a box of new 5th Edition (dark green cover) Basic Gliding
Knowledge books, and was going through trying to identify the changes from
the 4th Edition (light blue cover). As far as I'm aware, GFA hasn't
generated any sort of revision log document to tell us what the actua
Try Peter Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Ron Baker.
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From: Derek Ruddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:55 AM
Subject: [aus-soaring] LS agent
> Does anyone have the name & contact details for the LS agent in Austal
G'Day, I may have put this message on rec.aviation.soaring by
mistake, instead of aus-soaring, so I am posting it again. Item 1 I have a copy
of the original Standard Class Rules in French. Can anyone help with a
translation? Item 2 I have yet to see a report by the Australian team on their
Steven,
Like most simplistic solutions, this one will not address all of the issues.
The last two mid airs at multi class nationals did not involve gaggling at
all, but a cruising glider contacting another from straight and level
flight.
The Queenslanf fatal many years ago involved a cruising gl
Many mid-airs occur in the circuit area, so banning circuits should sort
that out! :)
Hang on, all mid-airs occur in the AIR, so if we just banned flying
altogether - or only allowed one at a time :) < note smiles >
All sports have some inherant risk - if we wanted to play it safe we
woul
Most people die in their sleep,
Let's ban sleeping !!! ;-)
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:56:00AM +0930, Michael_Texler wrote:
> Most people die in their sleep,
> Let's ban sleeping !!! ;-)
Hey, that's what I've been doing!
[ I've been at work since the AGM finished; I might go home in another
hour or so :-) ]
- mark
Well put David.
The only flaw I see is that a persons comfort level is not necessarily a
good measure of competence level.
Anyway I thought a lot of accidents happened in outlandings (or the non
planning of) so I have banned them as well.
Regards
John Orton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Me
snip
"If you are not comfortable with gaggle flying, don't do it until you are."
The reason that I started this thread was to encourage some debate and
perhaps help people "get comfortable" with gaggle flying before they attempt
it.
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Uniform Time
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The Gawler easter regatta saw 52 gliders fly in typically Easter
conditions at Gawler. (Well not exactly, 52 gliders each day! Actually 13
gliders flew each day making 52 gliders over the 4 days. "A little journalist
license")
The overall winner of "Verified Class" was John
Another important topic that has been left out in ed 4 was cross wind
landings. I would copy the 2 pages from the instructors manual so as
students would have something to read. Guess this has not been added
either. Lets start now and get ed 6 right. I would normally have thought
there should
At 1:22 PM +0930 4/4/02, ANDREW WRIGHT wrote:
> "What's a FAT Distance task I hear you say!"
> Well it's new, it's never been tried before until this Easter at Gawler
>and it works! I will not bore all with the details suffice to say
>that it's the
>ideal task for weak conditions whe
That's a good idea Simon. I did not want to bore people with the details but
if there is genuine interest there I would be glad too.
How do I do it?
> At 1:22 PM +0930 4/4/02, ANDREW WRIGHT wrote:
> > "What's a FAT Distance task I hear you say!"
> > Well it's new, it's never been tried
April's AG has been received by a few Victorians and it has substantial
collation and assembly problems. We are trying to establish how wide the
problem is.
Anyone with a copy with page duplications and/or missing pages please advise.
ML
Maurice Little
International Trade Management
Tel 613 933
If it will help, just e-mail the article to me and I will create the web
page and advise the URL
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I would like to know what a FAT distance task is.
Regards
John Orton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ANDREW WRIGHT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "What's a FAT Distance task I hear you say!"
> Well it's new, it's never been tried before until this Easter at Gawler
> and it works
Thanks Will do
> If it will help, just e-mail the article to me and I will create the
> web page and advise the URL
>
>
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> Uniform Time
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> PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068
> Ph: 07 3371 2944 Fax: 07 3870 410
Hello John
Thanks for your interest. I am posting the details onto a web page
with the help of Brian Wade. I will post the location to all on the aus-
soaring list when this is done. Could we interest you in coming and flying
at Gawler next year?
> I would like to know what a FAT di
Hi Andrew,
I would be interested however from WA it would be a bit of a hike just for
Easter.
I ran a small GP event at Easter over here. I used AST with some
modifications in flight due to changes of weather.
Even though I banned outlandings the self launchers technically outlanded by
motoring h
Another 'rule' is that the pilot who is above and NOT climbing as fast as
the glider coming up from below, moves out of the core to let the lower
glider through.
The rationale is that the slower climbing glider can then formate on the
opposite side or below the best climbing glider and benefit fro
Jason wrote about BGK ed5:-
>I am going to write a series of Errata notes and send them to the GFA
and Ian offered some topics for updating.
Very nice to see inputs being offered;
my belief is that these sorts of publications are 'owned' by us all
collectively.
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Emilis Prelgauskas
B.ARCH ARAIA
I will pass this on to the gliding lists.
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From: "PC Flight Log" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Peter Stephenson'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:55 PM
Subject: RE: Ideal PC-Flight Log for Glider Pilots 2.0.0 now available
> Hello, Peter.
>
> Thank
Who knows, perhaps the collective wisdom of the "gaggle gurus" will find its
way into BGK?
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Personal Computer Concepts
Uniform Time
http://www.uniformtime.com.au
PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068
Ph: 07 3371 2944 Fax: 07 3870 4103
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