Quoting Dave and Cath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well put, Mark. My sentiments exactly. > > Dave Long > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
When I last had an input to this forum on this subject some months ago, I felt I couldn�t persuade the nee sayers and had other "facts" thrown in my face. Now that Mark has, I feel, just hit the nail on the head with further logical additional point re aerobatics by Leigh, I feel it is worth another entry from the west. It was earlier mentioned that two of my very experienced fellow pilots had to land in a paddock shortly after a low recovery several years ago, when the Puchacz was still new to this club. This serious incident coincided with the requirement to change from the practice of using QFE to QNH. This subsequent PILOT error used up 720ft of the height thought to be available for the recovery. This was further compounded by performing this manoeuvre over undulating hills of approximately 300ft to the west of the circuit. Guess what, they didn't recover 20ft below the ground; they noticed their error when well below 1000ft during the manoeuvre and made a quick recovery once they used the correct anti-spin recovery procedure. The ACFT, only knowing that it was still in the air and not caring how close the ground was, performed just as it has always done; predictably and quickly. At Beverley we spin the Puchacz almost daily and perform many aerobatic flights with manoeuvres including accelerated stall/spins requiring spin recovery techniques close to the minima. We warn trainee aerobatic pilots of the push-on- itis syndrome at the end of the aerobatic sequence near these limits. Once on the ground almost all of these aerobatic students have stated that they feel much more confident in their general flying as a result of flying the ACFT further into its allowable performance envelope. We still have pilots who don't like spinning or aero-batting but I THINK they are beginning to realise that the ACFT they see spinning and aero-batting nearby is in fact very predictable and very safe. We keep looking to produce safer pilots by attempting to eliminate pilot error while building one's natural fear of the "extreme" into a respectful caution in our training of such manoeuvres. Best regards, Daryl Mackay CFI - Beverley Soaring Society _____________________________________________ This email (including all attachments) is confidential. It may contain personal information and is intended solely for the named addressee. Confidentiality is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you by mistake. If you have received it in error, please let me know by reply email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. This email is also subject to copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted, or published without my written consent, as the copyright owner, or communicated or forwarded to anyone other than me. Any personal information in this email must be handled in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/157/0/PA002090.htm _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
