In the current online classified ads of SOARING, I note that
two attorneys from Seattle are apparently trolling for
dirt from soaring fans in the US regarding "uncommanded
releases" from tow aircraft equipped with Schweizer
tow hooks.

Probably no single industry in the United States has been
harmed more by frivolous tort claims promoted by trial
lawyers than the U.S civil aviation industry. In the United
States, probably no company has done more to aid our sport
and make it affordable than the Schweizer Aircraft Company
and the Schweizer family.

Further, I can think of no sport where each individual
participant must more consciously analyze and accept the
risks of participation in each flight and take the steps
necessary to mitigate the risk associated with each flight.

I would strongly encourage all US pilots and friends of
aviation to hang up on these attorneys should they contact
you and I find it disgraceful that the official publication
of the Soaring Society of America would publish such an ad.

Pete Brown
Alaska Mountain Soaring
Anchorage, Alaska

http://home.gci.net/~pdb/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akmtnsoaring/