Ian, I've got it! A very good reminder. Don't do this unless it is a means of last resort. If it is the latter, the question is "how did you get into the situation in the first place?"
Thanks. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Mc Phee To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Simple question straw poll, (offlist reply) I really think taxiing is not on and Disc brakes 90% time can work but now and then they fail. I once watched an ASH taxiing hit Brad Edwards Pawnee - no damage to glider but serious ($10k or was it $20K) Pawnee damage. ASH disc was not working correctly. That pilot had been gliding over 40 years. . A friend of mine (he is level 3) taxied a glider in near hangar and I spoke to him about not a good idea. The next 2 seater was landing at hangar also and the visiting pilot from Sydney did something similar except overshot and finished up within 3m head on to John Michelle's Maule. I said to my friend Vic you are incharge best talk to him which he did and the pilot said "I saw you taxi so I thought I was allowed to do it here" .Basically my friend set a bad example. The best Taxi I have ever seen was Dafydd Llewellyn with his wife Jennifer and must be 25 years ago. He made 2 turns and stopped within 2 m of hangar door. Dafydd really did apologized but it was a skill he had from his youth at Bathurst (Sydney Tech Gliding Club) Late 70s I went to use wheel brake in L13 and bike wheel cable broke. I have not taxied since where I must rely on a wheel brake. If you must taxi then do it so NOTHING is in front of you. Taxi and relying on wheel brake is just not worth ite. When I have a young person jam on wheel brake I make them get out and touch the disc - they burn their fingers so bad that they never ever taxi and rely on a wheel brake again. AND I am sick and tired of fixing wheel brakes. Then there are the Pawnee pilots who push their luck too much with a taxi and use of wheel brakes. When I learnt to fly at a tailwheel flying school the owner got 3 of us students lift the tail of Citabria above our shoulder and the tail was now so light -always remember. He then proceeded with a lecture on how not overuse Citabria and Pawnee wheel brakes . That is my 2c worth Ian McPhee On 1 March 2013 07:02, Catherine Conway <[email protected]> wrote: It's very common in commercial ops that I have visited in the USA but I refuse to do it Cath Sent from my iPhone On 01/03/2013, at 1:02 AM, "Texler, Michael" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why the straw poll? > > I had the audacity to question a fellow level 2 as to why he taxied a heavy club two seater (a DG1000 with 2 POB) to within 5-10m of the back of the launching grid (there were other gliders on the grid). > > I was told that since I didn't have anywhere near the vast years of experience he had, 1,00's of kms of X-country he did and I wasn't as regular flier as he was that I had no right to criticise him. > > I was the level 2 running the day. > > Just trying to see how prevalent taxying up behind the grid is. > > Great to hear from you! > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2238 / Virus Database: 2641/5650 - Release Date: 03/05/13
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