On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:53:56 +1030, Mark Newton wrote > > The GFA ops people run a well-publicised roadshow each year which > involves visiting clubs in each state and running full-day safety > seminars. > > Part of those seminars involves frank, uninhibited, detailed discussion > of the accidents and incidents which have occurred since the previous > event in the same state. > > The last one in South Australia was at Lochiel in spring. I found it > a pretty valuable day, and have taken on-board lots of what was > talked about to improve my own flying. > > I commend Kevin Olerhead's safety seminars to everyone reading this > list.
Yes Mark, but there needs to be a thorough follow-up of these in the magazine for all those people who do not get there. I'd reckon it's far less than 20% of our membership who attend Kevin's seminars. I try to attend where possible when Kevin comes to Sydney, but there are always going to be people with family, sport or work committments, those on the duty rosters or other schedule clashes which simply deny them access to these discussions when they occur (not necessarily because they have a slack attitude about wanting to be safe pilots). If there was a summary of the first meeting included in Australian Soaring, then if any additional points are raised around the country as the roadshow progresses, a supplemental article could be written for the magazine, and all material should be on the GFA web site for later reference. In this way, all GFA members have equal access to the information Kevin is trying to disseminate. At the moment we tend to get one-liners which really don't help explain the root cause and scenarios leading up to the accidents clearly. The last really comprehensive GFA accident reports I recall were the ones hanging on the GCV Benalla clubhouse wall when I was doing my ab-initio training there in January 1998 - in fact I think this is what is shown under Operations on the GFA web site. What happened to all subsequent reports ? The HGFA general manager's report in each and EVERY edition of the magazine puts the GFA to shame. OK, maybe they have lots of accidents and the outcomes and root causes are not that pretty to put into print, but gee, they actually DO IT. I commend them for their diligence in trying to promote a "think safety" mindset amongst their pilots. Jason _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
