RE: [Aus-soaring] Re: [chat] Fw: Safety Seminar

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Robert,   Without mentioning callsigns or who put the reports in , is there a summary of the reports available from the Qld comps? I know of one that involved a glider tug combination and another glider. Maybe for those watching this forum it might provide some useful information?   Cheers   Nigel           Nigel Andrews Managing Director RF Developments Pty Ltd "A Queensland Company devoted to Research and Development in aviation electronics" Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web www.rf-developments.com Ph: (61) 7 54635670 Fax: (61) 7 54635695 **************DISCLAIMER************ The information contained in the above e-mail message or messages (which includes any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the person or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the addressee any form of disclosure, copying, modification, distribution or any action taken or omitted in reliance on the information is unauthorised. If you received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your computer system network. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Hart Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 10:09 PM Cc: Soaring in Australia; DDSC Chat; cgc Subject: [Aus-soaring] Re: [chat] Fw: Safety Seminar J&J Thompson wrote:    Below is a notice for a Flight Safety Seminar to be held at Caboolture on Saturday 19th November 05. Please forward on to all your members that have email and post on your Club notice board. Note: Safety management concerns raised in a submission to the GFA Operations Panel and the GFA Board in June 05 will be discussed during this seminar It is worth noting that the ops panel rejected our AGM motion out of hand, claiming it was without factual basis. At the June Board meeting, the Qld representative tabled the documented evidence behind Qld's claims. Unfortunately, this is not reflected in the minutes nor was there any action on the part of the board in the light of this evidence to request that the ops panel reconsider the Qld motion. One wonders what else occurs at these meetings that is not minuted and so we, the membership, never find out about. Safety is all our concern and currently we are failing to gather adequate incident reports to allow us to find out where the problems in our systems lie. One result of this is that we have had three fatalities in Australia in the last 18 months. We urgently need to (re)construct a real safety culture within the GFA. Unfortunately, the ops panel clearly decided that it (as the functional area with safety responsibility) is doing a very good job - despite clear evidence to the contrary. If three fatalities in such a short period is a good job that requires no action or self examination... It is worth noting that the then head of the ops panel is now our esteemed President...amazing how the GFA hierarchy system works isn't it? I would urge all Qld members to try to get to this meeting at Caboolture. Even if the GFA hierarchy decides to bury its head in the sand on these issues, there is much that we can do ourselves. Assembling statistics on incidents (i.e. things that happened that were not accidents but nearly were) is under way at DDSC, as is clear accident reporting. At the recent state comp, air miss incident information was gathered from pilots. Local Qld initiatives like this will allow Qld to move ahead and create a safer gliding regimen, in spite of the recalcitrance of the ops panel and others, who will become increasingly irrelevant until they realise that their duty of care is the the membership and not to themselves. Your input is both valued and necessary to the future of your sport! -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au

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