Pedro I 'm not carrying a can for anyone but I can do without your little outburst to the world in general. On another tack. The Air Force Accademy in Colorado has grounded all its 32 glider fleet as it is not sure if it is safe to fly them above 7000ft. They paid US$4.4 million for new training gliders back in March 2002 and I quote" technicians extrapolated data from the manuals to try to determine safe operating procedures above 5 000ft, but Brig. Gen. Johnny Weida (head honcho) said that was not good enough to assure the cadet's safety'' end of quote. Now would'nt it be interesting to know just what gliders they bought . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pedro Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Cross modal fatality rates between gliding and driving
> > >If you wish to portray gliding as a safe sport you can either tell lies as > >the GFA and many people are doing at present > > Mike you are an offensive LITTLE man, no, second thoughts your not a man, > you are not a member of the GFA and have not been for some time yet you try > to tell all how you are the font of all wisdom and the saviour of gliding in > Australia. If you were so smart and all knowing why, when you were a member > did you not fix all of the "problems"? It would be interesting to see what > would happen if the GFA sought to follow up legally your accustions of > lying. > > Maybe there is a reason GA training is 6 times safer than gliding according > to > >Michael Texler. > > I accept as I am sure most others would that at times instruction could be > improved but this is not confined to gliding. You might like to refer back > to CASA Flight Safety Australia Vol. 6 No 2 March - April 2002. First case > instructor with low time "student" when confronted by lower cloud was forced > to press on by the instructor into a valley. A hurried steep turn by the > student stopped the C206 from hitting rocks. On inspection later sticks and > green stains from trees were found on the aircraft. > Second case same edition pilot doing a check flight with insructor almost > put into inverted spin whilst flying IFR, "student" was smart enough to > recover the Aztec. The instructor said "I'm not very current on the Aztec > and I wanted to see what it did and how you'd recover" Fortunately the pilot > being checked was smarter that the instructor. > > Finally I am reminded of the story of the woman discussing contraception > with the Pope when she said "you no play the game so you no make the rules." > Mike go away and leave gliding to those who are members of the GFA > > P > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail is now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to > http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp > > > -- > * 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. > -- * 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.
