Any moving vehicle carries with it the responsibility to remain in control -
your medical condition puts others potentially at risk if it means your
no-longer-piloted glider crashes into someone else or their property. Hardly a
nanny-state rule, just common sense surely!
Richard McLean
>________________________________
>From: emilis prelgauskas <emi...@emilis.sa.on.net>
>To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
><aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net>
>Sent: Friday, 18 May 2012 2:59 PM
>Subject: [Aus-soaring] self declared fitness
>
>
>On 18/05/2012, at 11:56 AM, Texler, Michael wrote:
>>
>> How comfortable people feel about glider pilots flying with self
>> declared fitness to fly can be another topic for discussion!
>>
>
>Sometimes, in the rush toward having a rule to satisfy every situation,
>we sometimes tend to forget that for many (a majority?)
>of the 2000 sailplaners across Australia
>are just flying for fun for themselves.
>They risk themselves
>(having had that conversation no doubt with loved ones)
>often in a sailplane they own
>
>and so the question has to be asked
>what is achieved by grandma nanny
>having a rule for every situation
>
>when in the end
>each glider pilot chooses to fly and takes the consequences
>of that choice on themselves.
>
>(A quite different topic is hiring a glider to someone else, flying
>more than one in the cockpit, etc.)
>
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