On 27 Jun, Mike Borgelt wrote: > I can just see it now. A pilot in an oxygen equipped glider on a good day > breaks off his climb at 12000 feet because his high altitude rating isn't > current any more. A little later he lands out because his ridge soaring > rating has lapsed and he doesn't use the working ridge that was available. > > Get real.
I really don't believe this, your hypocrisy and ego are truly mind blowing. Perhaps you should seek psychological counselling? On the one hand you miss no opportunity to criticise, nay castigate, the GFA and club instructors, principally on the gounds of incompetence (ie poor safety) and yet here you encourage a person whose currency in particular competencies is rusty to exercise those competencies. Whilst I will agree with you that a person whose rating on a particular competency has expired *may* still be safe in exercising that competency (people's skill retention varies, standards necessarily average). Alternatively, they may through dumb luck or some such come away from the exercise with life and glider intact. However, the point about well designed competency standards is that they guard *me* against some self inflated idiot (probably you if this is truly your attitude) flying unsafely and knocking me out of the sky and making my children orphans, to say nothing of wrecking my beautiful glider. You are trully full of bile and bullshit. -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strategic IT & open source consulting +61 (0)438 385 533 Brisbane, Australia http://www.interweft.com.au -- * 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.
