On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 6:22:12 PM UTC-4, Liam wrote:
On Mar 12, 1:40*pm, wrote:

On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:34:17 PM UTC-5, wrote:

Glider insurance companies in America need to wake up and get real.



Actually, the vast majority of glider accidents in the US involve unintended contact with the ground. Now if only someone would invent an instrument that would tell the pilot how high up he is, so he would know to become more careful near the ground, that would surely be worth a big insurance discount



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Such an instrument would surely be disallowed in soaring competitions.

It's really tempting to flag this as "abuse".

T8