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decodes for Met briefings
The BOM have been working on a pictorial version of the area forecast for a
few years, don't know how far they have
to go before it is commissioned but saw a demo last year. Airservices
current briefing platform would not support this but will be replaced
in few years
There are about 180 australian pilots entered into the OLC with unallocated
categories for scoring. I have placed a list of AU pilots on the GFA website
in News/SportingNews http://www.gfa.org.au/news/newssport.php . If you are
entered into the OLC, could you please check your status and if yo
Darling Downs has had OzFLARM in all our club gliders (9) and two tugs, as well as around a dozen private gliders for about 4 months now. To your specific questions:
1.Why did your club decide to fit OzFLARM? - we are wanting to be leading edge on safety, and after seeing the benefits at
A brief report on the fatal accident last week:
"The fatal accident at Caboolture was in a homebuilt power sailplane ( pop up Rotax ) registered as an ultralight. I did some training with the pilot at GYM about six years ago. He was a current ultra light pilot trying to convert to gliders
I warily tread into the incident investigation debate.
Firstly, with regard to the fatality at Dalby, the report on our investigation is available on our website under the 'safety centre' area. The password protection on it was not supposed to be on it, and has now been removed so w
Pilots may be interested to know that Darling Downs Soaring Club has purchased FLARMs for our entire club fleet of 7 gliders and 2 tugs. We have around 9 private owners also purchased the units.
DDSC is a pretty busy club with a lot of local activity as well as cross country. After flying
From my training the following definition was given:
"a defined area of land or water used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and
movement of an aircraft"
In practical terms for gliding I thing for an outlanding in a paddock we should not treat it as an aerodrome,
but a
I have read with interest the ongoing debate on GFA safety. I think the debate keeps losing the thread that we need an awareness of incident causation, reporting and investigation, and analysis, and it is not limited to investigation of accidents. An incident system is a very necessary part
Graham,
The fact GFA do not investigate accidents and incidents is appalling, GFA management is stuck in the 50's with their attitude to most things including safety.
Several people i know who are professionals in safety and risk management in industry have offered to set up a safety mana
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