It's easy to blame the instructor in this, but where is the personal responsibility demonstrated? The pilot had already made a fist of the conditions, so why on earth get into a single seater?
"The instructor MADE me do it yer honour" -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Justin Couch Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2017 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops On 11/02/2017 9:07 AM, Mark Newton wrote: > Of course, this is all theorizing. We’ve had 70 years to find out: Have any > GFA duty instructors been found liable for any glider accidents? Not sure if specifically liable, but the Beverley PW-5 was written off due to poor instructor behaviour. That instructor is no longer with the club, or I believe gliding any longer. The club had the glider self-insured so that rules out that bit, but the pilot was badly injured, so the health insurance side might have something going against the instructor that approved the student to fly the aircraft. The SOAR report was published in the GFA mag, but I've attached a copy of it. I reckon this is about as close to negligence that you can get on behalf of an instructor. -- Justin _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
