On 9/8/2010 12:19 AM, F-U-Ed. wrote:
On Sep 6, 6:50 pm, wrote:
Folks:
Snip...

You will not yet find this on any accident/incident reports.
Cindy Brickner
Southern Californiawww.caracole-soaring.com

Just for your information, before you so blatantly post such rude and
one sided statements, you should know

[The alleged pilot] is no saint
in the soaring community and if that is your perception on the man
after his phone call to "alert" the community and "save the Puchacz's
and their users", I can honestly say that you are all VERY mistaken.
Best Regards, Blue Skies and Happy Soaring to all

Hmmm...of the two posts, the first one seems distinctly less overwrought than
the second one...but there IS a factual error in the first one. You CAN find a
listing of the incident in the preliminary FAA daily accident/incident data at...

http://www.faa.gov/data_research/acc...a/A_0907_N.txt

Within a few weeks it can be expected to show up as an NTSB Preliminary
Report, too.

I for one would much prefer to be alerted to incidents as these than to remain
in wondering ignorance. And while I'd also like to know more about the
individual pilots involved (because it may well influence my personal
conclusions about any incident...and personal conclusions about others'
misfortunes are always my own goal when it comes to my own future flight
safety), I recognize that generally only thos who know/knew the pilot(s)
involved are privy to such intensely personal information. Such is the way of
the world and human nature...

Regards,
Bob W.

P.S. For those paying attention to publicly available information, 2010 has
become a genuinely statistically bad year for U.S. soaring, both in quantity
and deaths. Please - let's try and avoid all avoidable incidents for at
*least* the rest of the calendar year!