Thank you
sounds like DDSC has an excellent management culture
The list I suspect is directly applicable to a number of other gliding strips around the nation
without them having to have incidents themselves to learn from
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:30:26 +1000, Thompsons wrote:
>For example at my club DDSC we reviewed our apr 40
>odd incidents and accidents of the last 3 years and broke them down
>into
>categories.
>
>The leading cause is "loss of directional control during landing and
>take
>off" which were 40% of the accidents/incidents
>
>After investigation the factors we found that contributed were:
>Single strip therefore more exposure to x winds
>Narrow strip with buildings along side the strip( 2 accidents
>resulted in
>gliders contacting the buildings)
>Hangar flights with glider taxing towards buildings
>Poor pilot technique and training for x winds
>Characteristics of our training aircraft
>airstrip condition-long grass not mowed (not a problem now with the
>drought)
>
>These are all fixable without too much effort. This is what
>reporting and
>management is all about
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