Hi Mandy, Many thanks for your input re how to link up with the current state of play.
I don't recall the exact details, but a few years ago, I do recall that for Bruce Taylor, the penny dropped, and he stated that (from hard learned experience), he was not from that point on, prepared to fly in comps in Europe north of a certain line that he defined. Certainly countries like Finland and Sweden were out. I have been following the OZ teams adventures in this round of World Competition, and I can only agree with BT. I live in Central Victoria, and the weather conditions over the past week or two have been very ordinary here for XC soaring, or any soaring at all, for that matter. Having said that, there is not the slightest doubt that we are experiencing conditions here, that are MUCH better than in Finland: For starters it is not snowing! Very few knowledgeable people will dispute the fact that to be a gliding bum, you generally need to be a millionaire, and equally importantly, have a lot of free time, to indulge your passion. If you meet the criteria,(especially if you are European), I guess that attending a comp anywhere in Europe is not (financially), a big deal. In this situation there will be a basic overall cost which is RELATIVLY minimal. In comparison, the cost of attending a European contest for an OZ pilot is considerable, and I will add that very few of our pilots are millionaires. The record shows that flying comps in Northern Europe is fraught. So we now get to the very nub of the situation. Why is that countries like Finland and Sweden are approved by the IGC to hold these comps? My old mate Terry Cubley, as our IGC delegate, knows a great deal about all this. Quite obviously, the whole situation is totally political, and Terry goes in there and batts for us: Sometimes he has a win. Sometimes he has a win when it seems impossible. A bit like flying X/C on a dodgy day in fact! So Terry, can the Australian gliding movement do ANYTHING to prevent this (in real terms, totally unrealistic), situation - re-occurring? Regards, Gary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mandy Temple Sent: Tuesday, 24 June 2014 5:59 PM To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' Subject: Re: [World comps in Finland There are several blogs and FB pages See Sports News on the GFA site http://www.glidingaustralia.org/GFA-Sport/Sports-News/ They are just about to start streaming today's briefing live on YouTube Mandy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Sanders Sent: Saturday, 21 June 2014 3:08 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Offtopic perhaps - but would be interested to read opinions Do our guys in Finland do a blog each day?? if so link please? Ron On 18 June 2014 17:02, Dion Stuart Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > How about changes be made so that colour coding/general systems are changed > so that colour blind people can distinguish between them? Changing to > red/blue would help with 99% of those who are colourblind (the Protanopia > and Deuteranopia affected people, which is upwards of 99% of > colourblind people - Tritanopia is the cause for some 0.001% of people). > > I'd be interested to know how many colour blind pilots are out there - > I think the statistic I heard is 25% of Western males and 10% of the world's > population of males have some severity of colour blindness, although > for many of them it's so slight they don't know - I personally work > with a guy > who never knew until he applied for a position in the ADF. > > It's pretty depressing (albeit understandable) when you're > automatically excluded from a slew of jobs because of something you > were born with - for > me it was commercial pilot, SAPOL, MFS, half the jobs in the ADF, lab > technician, just to name a few. It's more frusturating when you feel that > being colour blind wouldn't matter, or if a different colour coding system > was used, wouldn't be an issue. > > Just my 2c from a butthurt colourblind guy. > > Dion > > > On 18 June 2014 11:34, Nelson Handcock <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/casa-crack down-threatens-to-ground-colour-blind-pilots-20140617-3abkg.html >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> Nelson Handcock >> 0409 149919 >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonhandcockaustralia >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > > -- > sudo apt-get install witty-mail-signature cannot find package: > witty-mail-signature sudo apt-get install lame-mail-signature > installing ... > > The main idea of "Inception": if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside > a VM, everything will be very, very slow. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring ----- No virus found in this message. 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