Unfortunately, when you have 40 gliders landing within 5 minutes on a strip that can accommodate 3 abreast, there is no way this is possible or safe if everyone just lands straight ahead. Everyone MUST land long, and those on the edges MUST taxi off.
I've flown 2 comps this summer. at the first, most people were landing short and not taxiing off. The result was chaos, with several near collisions on the ground, and extremely high workload for those approaching to land - exactly what this rule is supposed to avoid ???? At the 2nd, as requested, everyone was landing long and taxiing off. even with the 40 gliders within 5 minutes, everything was calm and organised. The pilot workload was very low even spending as little as 1 minute getting out turning the glider 90 degrees and pushing off - it usually takes much more than this - is likely to cause a collision potential with at least 3 others, probably more. On 07/03/2013, at 9:50 , DMcD <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Tom, > > I really don't have an axe to grind here. You said… > >>> there have been more incidents/close calls and worse from the land straight >>> and dick around for ten minutes pilots than from those carefully taxiing >>> off. > > My glider has a steerable tail wheel, so I have the ability to veer > off the strip in an alarming fashion. I was given a telling off from > an instructor of a hundred times my experience for deviating from a > straight line at the end of my landing run. This deviation was not > alarming but a gently turn. > >> From memory the situation was that I had landed centrally on the > bitumen and when the glider was towards the end of its roll, turned > off the bitumen strip and rolled across the grass to the edge of the > strip. The grass is wide enough that two or even three gliders could > land there. > > The point the instructor made was that in a comp, there could be a > number of other gliders landing all around and there is no way that I > could be sure that the sides of the strip were clear and therefore it > was unsafe to turn. > > The alternative, appears to be to stop and then dick around for five > minutes… and it is a while… open canopy, release harness, release > static line, release pee tube, spray cockpit, climb out and get legs > to work, check for traffic and then pull the glider off the strip. > > Neither situation is particularly satisfactory, but my feeling is that > the straight run is safer than turning without looking (because > looking is impossible). > > How does one "carefully taxi off" without an initial turn to look? > > D > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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