Sydney Hoeltzli wrote:
/snip/
In that past 6 years that I've been flying at this club, we've lost 5
airplanes due to landing accidents, 3 of which were solo students.
Another 172R was badly damaged during a solo student touch and go,
which ended touch and go's for students.


Greg, I don't know, but this seems very high to me.
/snip/

Actually, this is an *extremely* high accident rate. In the eleven
years I was involved with a very busy flight school, during ten's of
thousand's of student solos *per year*, there was exactly one aircraft
lost due to the student's inadequate control of the situation. I would
recommend the persons in charge of Greg's flying club do an immediate
"stand down", and re-evaluate every aspect of their flight operation
before any aircraft is allowed to fly again.

Happy Flying! (students included!)
Scott Skylane