I hope I have misunderstood this sentence: I will make one comment – DO NOT _UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES_ THINK THAT THIS CANNOT HAPPEN TO YOU. The history of gliding is full of reports of EXPERT pilots who fucked-up and ended up very dead! BEWARE, and be aware. (Gary Stevenson)
If this could happen to anyone, this would be a dangerous sport. I would stop immediately If I had the feeling crashes could happen to me. I know one day I will land with the wheel up as that is something which can happen to anyone, not crashing into powerlines because too much headwind. Aren't these incidents a combination of things? Like a bad landing starts with a downwind. Judging Gary's story I believe the pilot made the wrong decision. I don't think these flights should be awarded. Lucky he is not injured. Grietje On 24/10/2014 10:50 am, DMcD wrote: > There's an interesting if tangential article by glider pilot and > cryptographer Martin Hellmann who helped re-invent public key > cryptography (some time after it was invented at GCHQ by James Ellis). > In this he states: > >>> While most experienced glider pilots sometimes do low passes (and some race >>> finishes require them), I've opted not to because I regard them as a 99.9% >>> safe maneuver – which is not as safe as it sounds. A 99.9% safe maneuver is >>> one you can execute safely 999 times out of a thousand, but one time in a >>> thousand it can kill you. >>> Even though they are clearly equivalent, one chance in a thousand of dying >>> sounds a lot riskier than 99.9% safe. The perspective gets worse when it's >>> recognized that the fatality rate is one in a thousand per execution of the >>> maneuver. If a pilot does a 99.9% safe maneuver 100 times, he stands >>> roughly a 10% chance of being killed. Worse, the fear that he feels the >>> first few times dissipates as he gains confidence in his skill. But that >>> confidence is really complacency, which pilots know is our worst enemy. > You only have to look at the statistics from the Alps in France to see > that experience counts for little when flying near the hard stuff, > whether it is at ground level or 12,000'. A low finish for me is at > 1500' > > 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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