On Aug 24, 2:34*pm, T8 wrote:
On Aug 24, 9:52*am, Cookie wrote:

You really think ANY of the recent accidents are attributed to
dehydration?

Maybe.

A CFIG crashed their personal single place high performance ship due
to an off field landing over run. *Current, plenty of time in type,
etc. *The pilot had been pulling on (wait for it) the *release handle*
instead of opening the spoilers. *Dehydrated? *You bet. *This may have
been (I am speculating, but have reason to speculate) a "can't pee in
the glider" scenario in which the pilot was intentionally dehydrating
before flight.

Cookie, I agree with a lot of what you have to say, but I think on
this issue you have some homework to do.

Naturally, it's the PIC's job to keep the PIC healthy.

-Evan Ludeman / T8

btw, don't you instruct here?: *http://tinyurl.com/3e4hlcs

Can you teach me to fly the '21 like that :-)? *(sorry, I'm a natural
born wiseacre, couldn't resist)

Yes I teach there, but not that....but that video was done long before
I got on the scene there.......Proably not a good thing to have on a
web site.....

Dehydration? Keep that one in your bag of excuses. For airplanes
always use "carburator ice"...

This pulling on the wrong handle is a fairly common mistake....for
beginners especially....I see it all the time...

Flap handle and spoiler handle mixed up.....release and spoiler
handle mixed up......at release they open the spoiler.

One of our club Larks got totalled this way......pilot applied full
spoiler, then modulated the flaps thru the pattern...came up "just a
bit" short.........

Early 1-26 .....the handles look about the same spoiler and
release...

Lark and Blanik...flap and spoiler handle close together and look the
same.....Blanik had AD or service bulliten to change the handles to
look and feel different for this reason.........

Gee...and all that was needed was some water?

Since you were up at WB this summer...the guy who flew thru two
fences...dehydration????

Cookie