I fully agree with Mike, you can mandate stuff like this, and completely miss the point.
Officialdom can put mandates in place to make them feel like they are doing their job, while having zero impact on safety. The real obligation rests with the pilot, his mandate is to stay alive by being thorough and careful, respecting the dangers around us in our sport. If that is not enough mandate for the pilot, another piece of paper wont help. Pam From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Thursday, 12 June 2014 9:49 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Att pop up motorglider pilots How about instead of more mandatory this or that, WE SIMPLY DO OUR PRE TAKEOFF CHECKS PROPERLY AND CONSCIENTIOUSLY EVERY TIME. In other times and places they have been called VITAL ACTIONS for good reason. It helps if people don't stand around making small talk while people are trying to do this. If interrupted go back and start again at the beginning. Much the same as the takeoffs where controls have been reversed after maintenance or failed to be hooked up. DISTRACTION during the procedure or during the checks of the procedure is the real problem. The guy in the ASW22B didn't die because of his radio etc, etc. He died because he didn't do the pre takeoff checks properly because clearly he failed to check that the brakes were properly locked. Then failed to notice that the aircraft wasn't performing properly and failed to abort the takeoff while there was opportunity. Mike At 08:11 AM 12/06/2014, you wrote: I notice Aldi this Saturday (14th) have on special again Active Noise cancelling headphones for $39.99.  These have batteries in the cup of headphones and do know work extremely well in a motorglider.  You still use the boom mic so there is no need to switch microphones (we often hear people on wrong mic in motorglider like they are at the end of a tunnel). They fold up into a small ball and have a case but you will need an adapter to go from 3.5mm jack to 6.5mm jack. For the past over 30 years in motorglider I turn volume up to full before takeoff but headpnone is a much better solution and unfortunately a few years ago a Finnish guy in Australia ASW22B took with airbrakes out and I believe did not hear the radio as people on ground warned him.  Unfortunately it was fatal. I would never mind if our GFA made it mandatory to hear a radio properly while engine is running especially takeoff. As some may realise all gliders  first CERTIFIED (not build date) after about 1990 airbrakes do not suck up on self launch or aerotow which really is a good safety feature. (I do know this includes G103 III and DG1001 and many more newer gliders) I do know owners at Keepit are using same and at $40 each maybe buy 2 Noise cancelling headsets on Saturday!!!!!! Just a thought Ian McPhee _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com <http://www.borgeltinstruments.com/> tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia
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