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Ansett had two Norwegian pilots: Bjorn Amundsen and Shell Leistaad. Bjorn was my T/C as an intake pilot and I owe him so much. I was also his last F/O. After a redeye which we crewed he went to his property in the Strathbogies where he’d established a large timber plantation as superannuation for his two children – Guy and Heidi. While slashing between the trees the slasher picked up a stone which rose and struck him in the back of his head. That caused Bjorn to fall backwards under the slasher. I was contacted by his wife and later Shell asking his last plans. That lead to Shell calling the local police to investigate and they found Bjorn still alive. Sadly he didn’t survive. Shell was also an Ansett 727 Captain and he sent Thor – also an airline pilot - a letter of introduction and Bev. and I met up with him at the 74 WC. I’m totally ignorant of Thor’s proposal. Please Post. Noel. From: Ron Sanders [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 4:29 PM To: Justin Couch; Gliding Australia Forum; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [gfaforum] 1000 K triangles Ingo competed in thirteen. As you say won four, and lost into second place at Wiener Neustadt by some stupidly small number of points. If one did a rigorous "uncertainty" or "error analysis" on the procedures in place at that time there is no way you can under any rigorous mathematical process ensure that with even 75% probability that Ingo was actually beaten. As far as i am concerned he won four and was a draw for first place at Wiener Neustadt. The scoring system then and now is a load of shit. The simplest thing is that is to understand that we add up the points to score the winner and yet a point scored on Wednesday is not the same value as a point score on Thursday you all aware of that??? Ergo it is all shit. Bill Anderson of the GCV had a really good system many many years ago, did not catch on, due to general ignorance. Does any of our up and coming newbys, even the top ones know, anything about Thor Johansen's proposal from thirty years ago Regards scoring?? EH?? who is he???? At least he is still alive I think George won three, but the big difference is ----- in Open class, in a row and without practise!!!!!!! unless flying a along the border of east Germany in an F4 Phantom constitutes practise for Paderborn. And what about the day that he was the only finisher and the majority of the pilots were pissed off at the over set task and complained to the organisers?? At the next briefing the (French? ) comp director said regards the complaints that----- they were there to determine the WORLD champion, the task was set and was possible as proven!!!! go jump!!!!! By the way George has said that it was the skinniest final glide he has ever done!!!! yes time moves on, but do we learn anything?? AAT tasks = what a load of shit!!! I want maps, cameras and no gps!! Am i getting bites??? Ron On 2 December 2017 at 16:33, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: On 2/12/2017 4:30 PM, Ron Sanders wrote: Come on guys!!! a few words on the internet does not need this level of aggro or holier than thou or what ever. I am only asking these questions for fun. I sometime wonder if the new youngsters are aware of the records and achievements that older Australian glider pilots have made in the past. Yup. Loss of corporate history is a real thing, and these are good ways of help people understand where we come from. GFA trivial night in the virtual world. Next question----- How many world comps did Ingo win?? How many did he attend?? He won 4. Don't know how many he's attended. It would have to be in double figures (assuming "attending" means competing in, rather than showing up for a dinner and a chat as a guest). How many did our other New Australian George Lee win, attend? Pass! -- Justin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gliding Australia Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:gfaforum%[email protected]> . To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/glidingaustralia.org/group/gfaforum/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gliding Australia Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/glidingaustralia.org/group/gfaforum/.
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