On Jan 12, 9:02*am, soarbooks wrote:
Do you have suggestions to make safety meetings and
programs more effective?

Yeah -- give the briefings to better pilots.

More seriously -- I think it would help to set some very specific
objectives for these sorts of meetings (the meetings of this type I
have been to have been rather too general and frankly pretty useless)
and I do have one particularly urgent suggestion:

What I'd like to see in the soaring community as a whole is better pre-
takeoff checklist discipline. There's no more efficient use of effort
in the pursuit of better safety to be had (I am mindful of several
sailplane and one tow plane fatality last year alone where checklist
failure was clearly a root cause). One could lay the groundwork for
this in a club briefing, but it will require follow up on the part of
instructors & chief tow pilots.

-Evan Ludeman / T8