I am alive against it Nick in my youth I have partaken.
Either way I can still win without a beat up.
Besides who wants to trash a $180000.00 AUD worth of glider your dad would
not be happy or Bernard.
Let alone set a bad example to pilots who may try a beat up.
http://www.gfa.org.au/Docs/sport/ Plenty of reading for a cold winters day
such as today.
CASA says the following.
157 Low flying
(1) The pilot in command of an aircraft must not fly the aircraft over:
(a) any city, town or populous area, at a height lower than 1000 feet;
or
(b) any other area at a height lower than 500 feet.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
(2) An offence against subregulation (1) is an offence of strict liability.
Note For strict liability, see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code.
(3) A height specified in subregulation (1) is the height above the highest
point of the terrain, and any object on it, within a radius of:
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(a) in the case of an aircraft other than a helicopter-600 metres; or
(b) in the case of a helicopter-300 metres;
from a point on the terrain vertically below the aircraft .
(3A) Paragraph 1 (a) does not apply in respect of a helicopter flying at a
designated altitude within an access lane details of which have been
published in the AIP or NOTAMS for use by helicopters arriving at or
departing from a specified place.
(4) Subregulation (1) does not apply if:
(a) through stress of weather or any other unavoidable cause it is
essential that a lower height be maintained; or
(b) the aircraft is engaged in private operations or aerial work
operations, being operations that require low flying, and the
owner or operator of the aircraft has received from CASA either a
general permit for all flights or a specific permit for the particular
flight to be made at a lower height while engaged in such
operations; or
(c) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in flying training and flies over
a part of a flying training area in respect of which low flying is
authorised by CASA under subregulation 141 (1); or
(d) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in a baulked approach
procedure, or the practice of such procedure under the
supervision of a flight instructor or a check pilot; or
(e) the aircraft is flying in the course of actually taking-off or landing
at an aerodrome; or
(f) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in:
(i) a search; or
(ii) a rescue; or
(iii) dropping supplies;
in a search and rescue operation; or
(g) the aircraft is a helicopter:
(i) operated by, or for the purposes of, the Australian Federal
Police or the police force of a State or Territory; and
(ii) engaged in law enforcement operations; or
(h) the pilot of the aircraft is engaged in an operation which requires
the dropping of packages or other articles or substances in
accordance with directions issued by CASA.