On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:12:20AM +0930, Stuart Cassidy wrote: > A more accurate title would be "teen pilot nearly causes accident" > I think it is poor form when passengers are maintaining a better lookout > than the pilot.
The ATSB says the glider pilot saw the Cessna at about 2 miles distance. His subsequent actions (not making CTAF broadcasts) permit the inference that he didn't believe that there was risk of collision. The news article says the Cessna pilot saw the glider some miles away too (although I don't think that info is in the ATSB report) So both pilots appeared to see each other at quite some distance away from each other; but then passed within 100m of each other. Hard to reconcile those two facts. Do you think someone is telling porkies about the quality of their lookout skills? - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
