ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike
Borgelt
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:46 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
At 05:03 PM 8/12/04 +1100, you wrote:
>I fully agree with Kevin, My own club, the VMFG has h
a minute before replying until I
> don my flame resistant suit!
>
> Harry Medlicott
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> From: "Robert Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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ednesday, December 08, 2004 1:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
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>My club has also safely flown a Puchacz for many years, its spinning
>charachteristics are as good or better that most if not all two seat
>gliders, it is started an
solute and utter nonsense.
John parncutt
VMFG
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin
McGowan
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:19 PM
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Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
My club has also safely flown
My club has also safely flown a Puchacz for many years, its spinning
charachteristics are as good or better that most if not all two seat
gliders, it is started and stopped exactly as stated in "the book" The thing
that is different with the Pooch is that it will lose more height than most
two
sible going for us,
Harry
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From: "skf1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'"
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] Accident
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia.
Cc: John Ashford
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
Hi All,
Fairly early in my gliding career my winch launching club bought an IS 29.
I was so concerned by what I considered its unsafe winch launching
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Cc: "John Ashford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
> My apologies to P
tralia."
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:59, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > I recommend never to fly an IS29 off th
My apologies to Peter
That last message was supposed to be a private reply.
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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 14:59, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I recommend never to fly an IS29 off the winch for the first time without
> experiencing a stall at height.
Rubbish Peter,
What about cable/rope breaks? These can happen at low level even on an
aero tow and you need to be ready to recognise a
experiencing a stall at height.
PeterS
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From: "Anthony Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:07 PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa
There was an accident involving an IS-29 at Stonefield
(Barossa Valley GC) last Saturday afternoon. I launched on
the first of the winch wires in GZQ with a BVGC pilot in the
front seat. I looked back after release to see the IS-29
being lined up for the second wire. I flew off to hunt for
a the
From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
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Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Accident in Barossa valley
> At 11:21 AM 6/12/04 +1000, you wrote:
> &
At 11:21 AM 6/12/04 +1000, you wrote:
> pilot went to Melbourne in serious condition
Yes I found the Ararat accident on the Adelaide Advertiser website.
Not the Barossa Valley and indeed seems to have happened on Sunday
afternoon whereas the ABC report was Sunday morning.
Mike
Borgelt Instr
One at AARAT(spelling??) pilot went to Melbourne in
serious condition
Mike Borgelt wrote:
ABC radio reported Sunday morning a glider accident in the Barossa Valley.
Anyone know any more on this?
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments
phone Int'l + 61 746
ABC radio reported Sunday morning a glider accident in the Barossa Valley.
Anyone know any more on this?
Mike
Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments
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