I couldn't agree with you more. Sounds like a really good local procedure. Everyone in the loop. On 07/03/2013 8:43 AM, "Matthew Gage" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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