Mike Borgelt wrote:
So we forget to do a proper daily inspection AND don't do a proper
control check before takeoff for this to happen. We don't fly in cloud
so icing is unlikely. Seems nothing has been learned since the Libelle
accident back in about 1979 in WA.
Things break - doing a DI doesn't guarantee that! We had a Puch airbrake
failure in the last 12 months!!!
Are the divebrakes really more likely to fail than the elevator,
rudder or ailerons?
I don't know - but I *do* know that if the elevator or rudder fail the
only way out is on a parachute. If the airbrakes fail I can still get
the glider down as they aren't primary controls, so knowing how to side
slip properly sounds like a good investment.
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Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au
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