already instigated when appropriate, as for example at the last nationals at lake KEEPIT, when it was a 500' feet minima at 3k I think it was when approaching over the lake.
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 10:09 AM, DMcD <[email protected]> wrote: > > Surely a lot of landing accidents would stop if we were more rigorous, > especially during comps, about circuit joining at a particular height? > > That is to say, if you are at 600, 800, 1000', call it what you will, > you join the circuit and land, wether it's a normal landing or an > outlanding. You don't tense up and try to scrape in. > > We seem to have a dangerous mindset that scraping in over the boundary > fence on a straight-in or a competition finish is not only OK, it's > what real pilots do. We should try and organise things so that flying > low and slow is just not part of the picture. We practice safe speed > near the ground with 'normal' circuits but low, slow straight-in > approaches are still accepted as being normal. If instead, when we > reach a certain height, a circuit was started, perhaps it would be a > safer idea? > > The finish height in comps could easily be set to 1000', and anyone > joining the circuit at a lower height than that was penalised. > Pre-trackers and GPS this would be impossible, but now it's easy. > > D > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
