Re: [Aus-soaring] Proximity

Not a typo, Macca. 1200 is the original GA VFR code in USA. Now used for all except: 1201 was glider VFR for a year, but is now used for jump planes. 1202 is used for gliders not issued a discrete squawk code. With those codes ATC will expect people jumping out of an aircraft squawking 1201,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Proximity

a good reason for all gliders operating close to RPT airports to have ADSB feed into your flarm. This is low cost insurance to avoid perhaps less than accurate and somewhat potentially over amplified press. ADSB traffic due to its much higher transmission power can be seen from >50km away.

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Hey Bob I am 50 years in gliding this month and thats longer than you!! and regretfully I remember many of them we have lost. As a friend once said to me "straight ahead to the hospital and left or right to the cemetery". ie avoid low level spins at all costs. Ian McPhee 0428857642 Box 657

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Possibly of interest Mike. Can you enlarge on this comment. Do you mean open the dive brakes 10 km for the Airfield and make an off field landing, as I have suggested? On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Mike Borgelt < mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> wrote: > I thought that's what dive brakes

Re: [Aus-soaring] Proximity

Hi, I have just joined the aus soaring group to respond to this. As some of you know I am the airspace airfields and avionics officer for the GFA also a member of BSC where we have had this issue for many years. The regional airline REX has worked with us for many years to make this

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

I was trying to figure out what you were getting at. I use a glide computer, not the Mark 1 eyeball for final glides. If you are going to do really skinny final glides it better be one you are familiar with and a glider you are familiar with. I'm also very conservative and while I've taken

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

"Anyway after looking at Google Earth and the TV footage I don't think we're talking about a misjudged skinny final glide in this case." Disagree! Adelaide doctor can answer for himself. The approach to Waikerie airfield from the North involves; 1, crossing the river, 2. an up slope of 100 ft

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

*'Does anyone know what really happened at Ararat nearly 4 years ago?''* *Yes we do know what happened.* Why try to hide it? There was an aerotow incident, The rope went slack. They released at low altitude. There was a safe landing ahead. Maurice Little did a turn back to the airfield at

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

I was trying to figure out what you were getting at. I use a glide computer, not the Mark 1 eyeball for final glides. If you are going to do really skinny final glides it better be one you are familiar with and a glider you are familiar with. I'm also very conservative and while I've taken

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

Yes I did Otherwise he would not have landed in the vines. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Paul Bart wrote: > > Yes, but when they coined that impressive phrase, they assumed that the > facts used would be relevant. Unless you actually know what happened to the > glider you

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

*"I was trying to figure out what you were getting at. I use a glide computer, not the Mark 1 eyeball for final glides"* Thanks Mike, What I was getting at was this: At the end of a final glide you have decision to make. It it this:* Am I sure I can get in to the airfield safely*! This