On 29/04/2012 9:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Peter,
I think you have got to the nub of it, but I am somewhat surprised
that you feel it necessary to bring this topic up again.
Because I have been "stewing" on my reply.
Whilst Stu's figures are no doubt valid for actual strikes, the near
misses hardly ever get reported, and therefore tallied up into (yet
another), set of statistics. Unfortunately, (to my knowledge), there
are no statistics for near misses, and more importantly, for glider
pilot lives saved by flarm
I do not know of ANY glider pilot who flies regularly (lets say 100
hours per year), over a few seasons, who has not experienced a near
miss at least once in his total flying experience. However do keep in
mind the proven fact that mid-airs are most likely to occur within a
few km of a glider airfield, so it is a certainty that early solo
pilots can be, and are, right in the firing line! Time and time again
it has been said that the use of flarm is an adjunct only to good
lookout. So let me iterate - LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT, LOOKOUT.
Both incidents that I was involved in occurred because the aircraft were
in each others blind spots.
PeterS
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