Good point made. I also have missed out on the last couple of safety seminars, not through want of attending, but just due to tyhe impracticability of attending a seminar 400km away from home on a particular date.
But, its not sufficient for us to just beef about it on this website. Can I suggest that you direct your sugugestion to Kevin Olerhead. If he doesn't get the request it's not likely to be taken up. Dave Shorter email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note no ".au" in address) 11 Lighthouse Crescent, Emerald Beach, NSW 2456, Australia Phone (02) 6656 1979 Fax (02) 6656 2983 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Armistead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Safety seminar information (was Re:accident ABCnews report) > 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 _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
