Glider Safety

Brad wrote:
Speak up about the pilots that you have already identified as "an
accident waiting to happen", then look to yourself.
Why are we waiting?

I'd be somewhat careful about this comment. Ultra-conservative flag
pole sitters love to criticize pilots who go out and polish the rocks
and do things they consider "unsafe"

I would have to think those pilots, and some of them are CFIG's would
love to pull an intervention on a few of us. Question is, are they
really safer than me?

A few of us spent 2.5 hours in close proximity to rocks and trees
yesterday for a spectacular ridge/mountain flight. To my knowledge,
none of the local instructors were there, or have done anything like
that in years, if ever.

So, are you telling me they are going to tell me how to fly safe?

I get a BFR in power every year, and fly 12 months out of the year in
my sailplane; my currency and safety is something I take
responsibility for, not some part time instructor who sit's in a
Blanik every other weekend.

Brad


I agree. Burt in his post says "Go fly with a seasoned instructor for
an afternoon and get a "real" Flight Review." This statement is based
on the assumption that instructors (or at least those instructors who
are "seasoned") are better pilots than the rest of us. While that may
be true for Burt and some others, in the US instructors are just pilots
who have taken more FAA tests than the rest of us (and probably done a
lot less XC). Why would that make them better pilots?

I would bet that the typical instructor could learn more from the
typical XC pilot, than vice versa.