Geoff,
contact the RTO/Sports(Regional Coach) in your area. Thats one aspect of
what coaching has been introduced to address.
-Cath
-----Original Message-----Adam,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Vincent
Sent: Thursday, 24 July 2003 5:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Fwd: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship
Well said. If anything is going to bring gliding clubs unstuck it is this mindset amongst the older fraternity of instructors that they can let go the reins once a student pilot has demonstrated solo capability. Very little, if any, training or mentoring seems to be provided by most clubs to turn glider pilots into soaring pilots. I soloed at 61 in 2001, I'm not an OFTTH and took to X-C like a duck to water. My dream is to help mentor less experienced pilots so that they can enjoy the same X-C buzz as I get each time I get away from the field. I don't have the patience or desire to become an instructor but know that I, and people like me, have a part to play in making sure that emerging X-C pilots get the opportunity to achieve maximum enjoyment and satisfaction from their flying.
Geoff Vincent
Mangalore Gliding Club
PIK 20B GAX
At 03:53 PM 24/07/03 +1000, you wrote:
>G'day All,
>
>Please find the article I wrote on the 23/07/03 [Aus-Soaring] The Junior
>Movement and Goals!
>
>I wrote this e-mail to to let you all know what the juniors are up to in
>Australia, and to show you all what were doing to try and improve the junior
>movement and to increase the members!
>
>I also forgot to write down that we have now got our own unique webgroup,
>open to all under twenty-six year olds to discuss anything and everything
>about junior soaring and the way we want to see it run! We have now got a
>total of 35 known juniors from all states and the list is growing!
>
>I looked at how our training has been done at a number of clubs and it seems
>that the students are bought up to "just go solo", and there then left to
>find out what else there is in our magnificent sport! I heard someone say
>that "When I went solo, I used to just hang around the airfied saying to
>myself "there must be more to this sport than just this" and then stumbled
>into the XC side of things" - Can we have a club mentor @ each club to show
>the different paths students can take?
>
>I can remember when I was doing my training, a couple of instructors used to
>take me on short XC's, one going over 100km in a Blanik! I always had
>intentions of going XC because of my background! but why not cover some XC
>as a part of the students training, and bring them up to get their to Silver
>C , then try and let them make up their own mind whether to continue or head
>off!
>
>Safe Landings
>Adam Woolley, 19
>CQGC
>
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