Have a read of the current GFA MOSP page 10 Section 8.1.7 titled 'Taxying
After Landing' Its pretty clear cut!
Regards
Laurie Hoffman
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From: Ian Mc Phee <[email protected]>
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
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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
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>Cath
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>On 01/03/2013, at 1:02 AM, "Texler, Michael" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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>> 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!
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