another crash

Yeh right.

believe whatever you like. If you're concerned about this sort of blowback, perhaps be more careful what you broadcast in a public forum, and consider who might be reading it.

On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:29:56 PM UTC-7, Nick Gilbert wrote:
believe whatever you like. If you're concerned about this sort of blowback, perhaps be more careful what you broadcast in a public forum, and consider who might be reading it.

Believe me, I don't give a **** about "blowback" - the facts will speak for themselves. Perhaps you, too, should review the two accidents that I posted links to. After all, physics also don't give a **** about opinions.

Tom

Hi Tom - my post regarding "blowback" was aimed at Charlie Quebec, not you.

Cheers,
Nick.

On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 6:52:13 PM UTC-7, Nick Gilbert wrote:
Hi Tom - my post regarding "blowback" was aimed at Charlie Quebec, not you.

Cheers,
Nick.

Sorry, I made a bad assumption!

Tom

Once again 2G claims his own infallibility, and ignores the evidence of his eyes.

An update on the bun fight at the headrest corral.
5 days later the airworthiness people still will not decide whether removing the headrest is legal or not.
Luckily, my wonderful club officials managed to bring the issue to the attention of the most experienced senior airworthiness person in the country, who is a CASA rated specialist on glider modifications,
and is responsible for the issue of engineering orders for such mods.
Below is his response to the inquiry re legality. Of particular note is the statement regarding reports of this headrest striking pilots heads during ejection.

“Your DG200 was certified by the German LBA under “ LFSM 1975 Airworthiness Requirements for Sailplanes and Powered Sailplanes. � Perusal of that document shows no mention of “Head Rests�. That means it was not needed for Certification. An optional extra if you like.

The current CS22 Design Requirements do have a mandatory fitment of Head Rests with strong emphasis being attached 2 or part of the seat.�

We also know that there are findings from accident reports that the original headrest may strike the pilot in the back of the head when the canopy is jettison. When Design Requirements are updated retrospectivity is not applied.

Based on all of the above, you can do what you like with the headrest. Being there, or not being there, has no influence on operations or airworthiness and the increased pilot safety is a key issue.

So it appears the pathetic bitter little person who reported me has failed utterly in their attempt to inconvenience me, however they have caused condiderable wasted time for the airworthiness authorities.
Stick that where the sun don’t shine.

This article by GDale clearly recommends removing the headrest from this style of DG canopy. It very nearly killed him on the way off.
Quote:
“We are going down really fast. The canopy goes off. The headrest, as the canopy pivots upwards like this, because it [the headrest] is attached on the back [of the canopy] quite deliberately so that it can’t slide back, so it goes ‘boom’. The headrest hits me really hard on the back of the head and puts my lights out. And I’m out for seven or eight seconds. So now I’m going down through 1200 feet in the vertical, glider accelerating, unconscious.�
“If you have an old DG with the headrest here [pads back of his head] take it off and put a roll behind your head instead, because if the canopy does that [again shows a canopy rising nose first, swinging round a point at its back] it will swipe you [10:30] really hard.�
https://members.gliding.co.uk/wp-con...out-advice.pdf

The conversation wasn’t about bailing out - it was about accident impact. Completely different thing.

Nick.

I assumed that it’s best to discuss safety related issues publicly, but then I should have learned from my previous experience with a club that is a safety disaster area,
so much so a previous CFI, when critiquing its claim to be low cost, described it as receiving a bi annual subsidy from its insurers due to the number of write offs they have.
If it wasn’t you Nick, I apologise, and my suspicions turn to a nasty bitter little leather faced turd I call D moaner, or perhaps a recent OAM winner.
Of course the gutless piece of **** won’t own up.
Luckily, my club officials are right behind me and taking up,the issue on my behalf.