Re: [Aus-soaring] The Golden Age

Thank you Gary, I fully concur that memory adds rose to the glasses. I am drilling a bit deeper, based on my fire ground and court work. In all fields of activity, there are prescriptive rules and these are vehemently applied and defended by some. In many fields of activity it has since been

Re: [Aus-soaring] Glider Registration

A conversation that has never been formally had within the sport is the ‘value’ of an Australian registration. >From my end, that registration held by an elderly airframe has meant that from >1949 onward it has been possible to trace the provenance (a la ‘Who do you >think you are’) until the

Re: [Aus-soaring] T as a mandated instrument

On 21 Apr 2016, at 5:52 am, Justin Couch wrote: > We don't get to pick and choose how we interpret "relevant" rules when we > don't like one that is not in our favour. I looked through at least another > dozen gliders of varying age. All state cloud flying permitted, none,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Fw: Nigel's omission

This is indicative of the dilemma about corporate knowledge, as each generation succeeding the one before only knows what they know, and records that for posterity. Like the re-imagining of the history of the sport’s formation and early growth by the late Maurice Little when the current magazine

[Aus-soaring] definitions

It is great to see conversation in full flow. One issue confounding understanding in the conversation might be the quite different definitions being placed on elements of gliding, with different contributors coming at things from differing points of view. It is possibly a difficult ask, but it

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

My understanding is that at present we have a Project beyond 3000 underway (encouraging clubs around Australia to have current members look to re-engage former members or engage friends). To be active in April 2017. This may sit within a business plan. As it seems similar to an Executive

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

As occurs in other parts of gliding, the issue of pilot responsibility vs club/instructor ’supervision’ has many constituent parts. - the existing fiction is that the national body ‘controls’ the sport whereas a reality is that at each individual flying site the control/supervision relies on

[Aus-soaring] a thank you

To all contributors to the conversation on gliding the sport: a thank you. The conversation serves the same function as did the production in 1996 of the GFA Development Guide. It gets together the thinking across the breadth of issues:responses of the day. It helps people like me to cast my

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

Thank you Richard, even though my contribution is spread over 50 years, I am still in there pitching for a future for gliding at the coal face. In the last 6 months I have - - contributed to a neighbouring club whose CFI ‘retired’ because of the ever increasing onerous impositions by GFA on

[Aus-soaring] discussion wrt gliding competencies

It is pleasurable to see aus-soaring delivering a broad range of thoughts on serious gliding core subjects. Contributing elements to the diverse breadth of commentary are both the diversity of ‘gliding’ styles (as previously listed) and the variety of attitudes brought by individual pilots

Re: [Aus-soaring] Training booking system and process

Some use http://www.aircraftbookingsystem.com/default.aspx On 17 Feb 2017, at 11:16 am, Ben Coleman wrote: > Hi all, > > Are there any gliding clubs using a booking system of some sort to organise > training activities? This may be as simple as who is turning up and

Re: [Aus-soaring] Membership- GFA- clubs future survival

The point that has been made in other forums is that - the gain of a new member does not equal - the loss of an existing member. Because the former needs support, mentoring and encouragement whereas the latter needs respect and encouragement but delivers knowledge and competencies. Hence I

Re: [Aus-soaring] "Sully"

I saw it tonight. With my emergency management background I could see the continuous theme on human factors which culminate at the end. Told in a slightly subdued style to suit the general audience it is intended for. Length felt slightly short for someone in my mindset. On 13 Sep 2016, at