"send not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." That was
written 500 years ago. He wasn't wrong.
We have retained the tradition of having waypoints at geographic
features for three reasons. One is sheer laziness - we already had
locations of towns and silos. A second is psychological - we like to
say in the bar that we went to Hillston, rather than "i went to a
waypoint in the scrub west of Hillston". The third is more practical and
does have a safety implication - if you are heading for a town you can
see it out of the window, and don't have to keep referring to an
instrument on the panel. None of these are showstoppers if change is
seen as necessary.
Cheers
/Tim Shirley/
/tra dire é fare c' é mezzo il mare/
On 04/06/2014 09:03, Mike Timbrell wrote:
You mean we should make changes because someone in Poland gets beaned
by a piece of wreckage?
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of
*Matthew Scutter
*Sent:* Wednesday, 4 June 2014 8:15 AM
*To:* Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
*Subject:* Re: [Aus-soaring] Liability to public.
Turnpoints are usually over populated areas such as towns.
Turnpoints are naturally an area of higher collision risk because of
converging headings.
Pilots tend to outland/get low near turnpoints because of tunnel
vision or trying round the turnpoints efficiently in high wind.
Perhaps turnpoints shouldn't be over populated areas/landmarks in
competitions in this age of GPS navigation?
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Derek Ruddock <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Lookout, lookout, lookout...
*From:*[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Christopher McDonnell
*Sent:* Monday, 2 June 2014 6:52 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* [Aus-soaring] Liability to public.
http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/172564,Pilot-killed-in-glider-tournament
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