On 20/04/2012, at 2:07 PM, Tim Shirley wrote: > "Cessna XXX 10 miles SE Benalla maintaining 4500 ft overflying for Mangalore" > "Cessna XXX glider YYY, be aware there are approximately 6 gliders operating > in the vicinity of the airfield up to 6000ft" > "YYY this is XXX, please give locations of all gliders" > "XXX, gliders may be operating at any location within 10 miles of the > airfield and altitude up to cloudbase. Please keep a good lookout." > "YYY, there should be a NOTAM out for that" > "XXX, this is YYY, the ERSA entry for Benalla states that glider operations > may be carried out during daylight hours on any day"
It is hard to know both sides when I am only on one side - eg. Gliding, but I have a couple of friends who are pilots. They tell me that it is all safe because of the 500' separation. I explain that balloons, gliders, para/hang gliders, etc are all sharing the same space and don't have that rule. The conversation above is interesting, although there is an ERSA entry for Benalla, what about outside of the CTAF. Gliders are there too. With the increase of more SA planes, will this problem increase? Scott
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