Thanks Mark,
Interesting report.
My two near misses have been on the approach to the down wind joining
point;
Once I was nearly taken out by a glider performing aerobatics. I was
heading in toward the airfield and did not see the HASLL manoeuvres,
Second time I was nearly run down by the tug,
On 4 Oct, 2014, at 8:07 am, Peter Champness plchampn...@gmail.com wrote:
The take off/landing area seems to be the most vulnerable area because that
is where the flight paths cross most often.
Have a look at the diagram at the bottom of page 8 on this ATSB report from ten
years ago.
The details of this accident have caused me to rethink the probabilities if
glider collissions. Given the size of the airspace one would think that
the likelihood of 2 aircraft being within the one small box at the same
instant would be unlikely in the extreme, yet it has happened before.
I
A wake-up call here -
http://www.theage.com.au/national/complacency-amateur-rules-contributed-to-f
atal-glider-collision-coroner-finds-20141002-10peab.html
John
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http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/2600275/fatal-breakdown/?cs=12
From: John GWYTHER (BigPond)
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Subject: [Aus-soaring] Coroner's complacency finding on glider crash
A wake-up call here -
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