I see a post from Pete Cesco over on the official GFA Google Group that
the BSE revamp has finally been published to the GFA website. Passing on
the news here.
http://www.doc.glidingaustralia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&view=list&slug=basic-sailplane-engineering&Itemid=101
This is a huge revamp of the old BSE and I have been heavily involved in
the work (6 of the 20-odd chapters). The old paper BSE was scanned and
then all the chapters revisited. In many cases we rewrote from scratch
and did a lot of research work to update and amend items that were
previously written. Some were thrown out completely and new ones added in.
With it in electronic form, updates should be much, much easier too.
Each chapter is an individual document, so we don't need to issue a
whole new one each time we find a problem or GFA/CASA/FAA etc change the
rules on us. From Pete's notice, it looks like November each year will
be the update cycle.
There's an official feedback form so that we can collate and prioritise
changes. I'm happy to take public or private critiques as well,
particularly related to the chapters that I worked on. As always, there
will be some controversial changes and expect to cop some heat, but we
have a very fine line to tread between practicality and lawyers.
Sometimes the lawyers won as this is now considered an official
airworthiness engineering manual that needs to stand up in a court of law.
Finally, many thanks to the various people that I have chatted with
privately to get feedback, ask questions of etc. It was very helpful to
get from-the-field experience and input into the writing.
Next steps will be building up the sets of training materials for Form 2
coursework, based on this manual. Pete wrote about this in the last GA
magazine.
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