Mark
 
    You said "But FSA has the resources to do the publication properly, with more depth, and with analysis from aviation safety experts (instead of what some people in this thread have advocated, which is producing a few paragraphs of summary raw data in the mag and making everyone reading draw their own conclusions)".
 
    I have advocated to the Board that these reports should be a 1/2 - 1 A4 normal typed page (will be less in the magazine) and I am advised that sufficient factual data exists in a suitable form within the GFA, from the Incident/Accident Reporting system. It just isn't made available to the rank and file.
 
    Now there may be some extra effort needed to draft it into a form for the magazine, but I've made a suggestion on how that can easily be handled.
 
    At the present GFA Safety Seminars one of the key message is "early decision making and good circuit planning at 700 ft agl for outlandings" and specific examples are considered .......... including a number of fatals ..... and this is identified as a key problem for the sport, & rightly so.
 
    Yet in the March 05 Magazine there are 2 accident reports on p22, of a LS1F and a LS4 which say (merely) "Heavy landing while outlanding".
 
    I say that all members could gain something useful from those accidents if they were advised of the reason for the heavy landing.
 
    You tell me. Was it poor circuit planning, or pilot fatigue, or poor paddock selection or pilot dehydration or an unsighted star-picket or ..............................
 
    It can only benefit all active pilots to learn from these reports and I don't understand why you would possibly object to that.
 
Regards
 
 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] ACCIDENT & INCIDENT REPORTING

Don Ingram wrote:

> Material presented with the aim of increasing safety is duly digested and
> stored away, hopefully increasing ones level of safe behaviour. The crash
> comics however seem to have far more bite, the material presented is
> chillingly real & often gives one reason to pause and consider the particular
> case. It shouldn't really be so but at least in my own personal experience I
> have found that it has a greater impact.

Those who want CASA to take a greater role can also take solace in the
fact that GA pilots and glider pilots kill themselves in exactly the
same ways, and exactly the same lessons are applicable, and CASA already
produces a crash comic.

Glider pilots who read FSA will be just as safety conscious as they'd
be if they read the GFA accident reports too -- But FSA has the resources
to do the publication properly, with more depth, and with analysis from
aviation safety experts (instead of what some people in this thread have
advocated, which is producing a few paragraphs of summary raw data in
the mag and making everyone reading draw their own conclusions)

  - mark

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