At 9:55 AM +0930 4/6/02, ANDREW WRIGHT wrote: > Why is it that a glider was is airspace through which parachutists >were operating or the otherway around ?
Because it is in no way prohibited, I expect. i.e. Because they're allowed to be, and they are, very often. Perhaps the reason why this is rare has more to do with the 'its a big sky' effect than anything else. I fly my glider in SA in airspace (uncontrolled airspace) in which there are multiple skydiving operations within a 20 km radius - all in that 'uncontrolled' airspace. This is the strongest argument I (personally) have for monitoring the area frequency when I fly, not 122.7 - and where I fly my (motor) glider, that is what I certainly do as a result - because I'm aware of the skydiving operations and other aviation around me, which has no idea that 122.7 exists (but that's a different topic altogether). In fact its only through radio monitoring that I have any idea that the two local skydiving operations exist at all. They aren't marked on the WAC chart; There is nothing to stop a glider (or indeed a light plane on the wrong frequency) being unaware of the skydiving ops around them. If you lived on the area frequency while soaring you might be surprised at the things you're otherwise missing (then again, there is a flip side - at times the only choice is to turn the bloody thing off after an hour of listening to jets being cleared every 3 minutes for approach into Melbourne, while soaring 80km's from Adelaide. I do so wish CASA's drive for economising hadn't lead them to interconnecting so many disparate area frequencies just to save a few $ on controllers' salaries) Cheers, Simon -- Simon Hackett, Technical Director, Internode Systems Pty Ltd 31 York St [PO Box 284, Rundle Mall], Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.internode.on.net Phone: +61-8-8223-2999 Fax: +61-8-8223-1777 -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
