Geoff Kidd wrote: > At the risk of being railed against again by the "You only want the > gory details" mob, I ask whether any of you have considered Kevin's > article on P22 of the June 2007 Soaring Australia, and whether you > consider it a little incongruous. > > At the end of para 1 Kevin mentions the 4 fatals and states that "The > high rate of fatal accidents in our sport in recent years is most > disturbing and unacceptable". > > That is certainly correct. > > The incongrous bit, I feel, is that apart from Kevin's para of > narrative on this subject, the fatals each get 6 or 7 short lines, > each of which contain something like 10 or 15 words describing what > happened, but none of which would allow the membership to learn any > details about real cause, or on which we can improve our practices. > > And even more incongruous is the fact that these issues are so > "disturbing and unacceptable" that the reporting period chosen by the > GFA was 1st January 2006 - 1st April 2007. > > I suggest, again, that this issue needs more exhaustive reporting and > shorter reporting periods. > > Just imagine how brief they'd be and how often they wouldn't be > reported if this wasn't so "disturbing and unacceptable". > > I say that this just isn't good enough. > > Now I wait to be told again, as I was last time I raised this, that > the GFA staff are so overworked or volunteered-out that this is all > that can be produced or expected. > > Regards > > Geoff
I thought the format chosen by Kevin was very similar to that used by the BGA in their magazine. I think there is a fine line between reporting the bare facts, as Kevin has done, and being drawn into speculation about causes, which could open the GFA to legal challenge by the families of the pilots. Most pilots would be able to draw some pointers from the brief statements in Kevin's article. John G. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
