Hi All,
Does anyone know of any club using a disability hoist to assist with glider
access. Regards
Laurie Hoffman
From: Peter Champness <[email protected]>
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 25 April 2016, 21:16
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] The Golden Age
James,
No I did not understand what Emilis wrote. But I am interested!
Intervention by Government or DO GOODER PEOPLE is always bad in my philosophy.
It goes against the interests of the INDIVUAL which should be the highest
principle. That takes us into high level philosophy.
I hope that this will find some resonance with gliding people, who are very
likely independent thinkers.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:57 PM, James McDowall <[email protected]>
wrote:
Emilis,
I understood what you wrote but did anyone else? After years of working in the
building industry and experiencing first hand post bushfire bureaucracy I have
come to the conclusion that "affordable housing" is a confusion in terms. The
stringencies of the ABCB, however well intentioned are driving up building
costs. There is a lesson here for all forms of recreational aviation.
Jim
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:50 AM, emillis prelgauskas <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thank you Gary,
I fully concur that memory adds rose to the glasses.
I am drilling a bit deeper, based on my fire ground and court work.
In all fields of activity, there are prescriptive rules and these are
vehemently applied
and defended by some.
In many fields of activity it has since been demonstrated that ‘one size fits
all’
creates more problems than it solves.
That doesn’t stop the ‘fixed rules’ crowd from trying to forget about alternate
solutions.
fire ground example: “No, you can’t build a new replacement home where your
existing home was burnt
down by the bushfire; because the rules have changed and we don’t permit that
sort of thing now”.
In these fields the primacy of good human outcomes results in ‘alternate
solutions’ which can then be applied:
“The new build will have a shelter to ABCB guidelines, fire resistant
construction to AS3959 and siting
maintenance/fire fighting capability to Minister’s Spec SA78 - i.e. this is
permitted.”
Gliding is still travelling down that path of recognising that better outcomes
come from a baseline of
prescriptive ‘deemed-to-satisfy’ provisions with higher order alternate
solutions above this.
(The Building Code of Australia categorises 3 such layers in its industry, with
‘expert judgement’
at the top of the pyramid.)
Emilis
On 24 Apr 2016, at 9:11 pm, Gary Stevenson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Emilis, on consideration, I do not entirely agree with your recent comments.
> Golden ages live in our memories, but (fortunately/unfortunately), memories
> are fallable. In any case, all that you refer has passed ..for ever.
>
> As always, NOW is the time to seize the moment
>
> Let me suggest to you and to everyone else who is a member of this forum,
> that the reality of gliding in Australia today .... right now ...... is that
> we are living in an era WHERE THIS IT IS AS GOOD AS IT IS EVER GOING TO GET.
>
> THIS is the golden age.
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