On May 16, 11:42*am, nimbus wrote:
On 16 mai, 19:21, jim archer wrote:

"Poor weather conditions, close to the mountains ridges, no
outlanding
fileds and still having water ballasts full of water? " *was not in
the article anywhere

Strange? *Not when you consider the pilots actual comments...
"winds were pretty strong" "skies were overcast" * "He said he was
ridge soaring when his glider stalled and spun into the side of a
mountain" *were some of the pilots and authors comments, so I'm not
sure what people are getting at here. *Sounds like he is genuinely
grateful and amazed to be alive after an admitted stall/spin.

Extract out of the provided link :

"He was flying lower and lower, without finding lift, and had not
dropped his water ballast—which increases stall speed. "

The question I have about this is the effectiveness of the different
alert devices while upside down. Would the SPOT get a message out,
would the PLB? Where I fly there would be no cellphone coverage and no
way to get a fire truck with an airhorn, so it would be SPOT or PLB
and a very long wait.

Brian