At 03:01 PM 22/04/2008, you wrote:
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> years ago be a pelican strike. The bird stuck the windscreen, they
> crew were not able to activate the escape module and were lost.
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Yes and I knew the pilot. He was one of the instr
Seems to me that you folks are trying to out do one another when it comes to
stories about close shaves with military aircraft!
Just for the record an F-111C model aircraft was brought down many years
ago be a pelican strike. The bird stuck the windscreen, they crew were not
able to activate the
Now that's worrying =\
Dion
On 22/04/2008, Derek Ruddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I launched off the winch at Yorkshire Gliding Club and had 2 Panavia Tornados
pass directly underneath me...
Derek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Catherine Conway
Sent: Tuesday, 22 April 2008 1:39 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to
I got down to 900' over Callington years ago in the Boomerang and was
scratching away when an Orion passed under me ! That was scary.
-Cath
On 21/04/2008, at 7:01 PM, JR wrote:
I shared a thermal at 8,300 feet with an air force Orion!!, that was
unexpected
JR
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At 05:25 PM 21/04/2008 +0930, you wrote:
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>I think common sense should be applied.
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>In unobscured air with good visibility the alarm going
off
>just serves to keep your eyes open and a glance at the
Flarm
>to ensure that no-one is in your blind spots. See and
avoid
>should work quite well in
Hi all,
As far as I'm concerned, given Flarm's lack of precision in
accurately pin-pointing a glider threat situation, taking avoiding action
before visually seeing the threat could well make matters worse. Let's
stick with the well-established "see and avoid" principle and
use Flarm only to augme
On 22/04/2008, at 6:56 AM, Terry Neumann wrote:
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> I hope you were both turning in the same direction :-P
I shared a thermal at 13,000' with a horse-drawn zeppelin. He wasn't
turning a
JR wrote:
>I shared a thermal at 8,300 feet with an air force Orion!!, that was
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>JR
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I hope you were both turning in the same direction :-P
Terry
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"My student & I had a surprise to once share a thermal at Leeton at 4000'
with a large hessian bag!"
The tip at Leeton has sprung some very strange things in the air... I've
seen quite a few plastic bags at 4,000' + , and even large bits of packaging
foam. Good thermal source, but jeez sometimes i
"My student & I had a surprise to once share a thermal at Leeton at 4000'
with a large hessian bag!"
Was that Heidi? Is she still flying? :-)
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There should never be a poor visibilty flight, we fly under VFR rules.
JR
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From: "Anthony Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Rules for using Flarm
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I shared a thermal at 8,300 feet with an air force Orion!!, that was
unexpected
JR
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From: "Roger Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] F111 Bird Strike
You guys need to read this:
http://www.flarm.com/support/manual/FLARM_DataportManual_v4.01E.pdf
See section 3 Design Philosophy
Mike
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I think common sense should be applied.
In unobscured air with good visibility the alarm going off
just serves to keep your eyes open and a glance at the Flarm
to ensure that no-one is in your blind spots. See and avoid
should work quite well in these situations.
In the situation with poor vis
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Please contact me off list.
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I see a potential problem in a busy gaggle at a comp where the Flarm can be
going off almost all the time. I love it as a safety device in these
circumstances, but if I had to avoid every warning I couldn't see I could
never be in the thermal in the first place!
Tom
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