David is on the ground at Benalla. 1558 km in 11 Hr 45. What a fantastic flight. He over shot Benalla and turned back at Lake Eildon in the hills to the south adding another 100km then overshot again to the east and turned back at Wangaratta. If the day is still going then keep going!
No accident, I know David. David has had this flight (and many, many others) planned for ages and each day he checks the ISO charts for the right pattern. When it looks right he is already prepared and launches as early as the day permits. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Then one day it turns out like it did today and Perfect Planning Produced A Perfect Performance. It helps that he is also a superb soaring pilot.... I guess. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Ross McLean -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Sanders Sent: Friday, 2 January 2015 6:47 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] ABC report benalla accident. I hope we find out very soon what happened. Ron > On 2 Jan 2015, at 5:25 pm, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > not good > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-02/person-killed-in-gliding-acciden > t-in-vic-chesney-vale/5997616 > _______________________________________________ > 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
