Tuesday, September 7, 2010

A club with more towplanes than gliders...

Or so it seems...I guess sh%t happens. At least it's been a totally unfly-able spring. We're not missing much. However the word from "on high" is we are to inspect every glider after every out landing. That's interesting. Whilst there is some anecdotal heresay that more damage is happening where gliders are landed somewhere other than at "home", the statistic's would suggest otherwise...if 95% of the gliders landing are at the airfield and the accident rate is 2-3% that still trumps a 20% heavy landing rate off field for the other 5%. In other words the apparent damage from a previous heavy landing is twice as likely to have occurred in front of our very eyes on 04/22. So thinking ahead...if some-one enters GKM or GXT in a contest and land-out...what happens then?? I wonder if training, education and an understanding of what is a heavy landing and what can happen, would be a better appraoch than a "new rule"...

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