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October 31st 19, 04:59 PM
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Gliding risk....
On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 9:43:15 AM UTC-7, Patrick Grady wrote:
I think it's worth adding that 80% of drivers think they are above average in skill. (https://newsroom.aaa.com/2018/01/ame...-driving-cars/) That same illusory superiority probably applies to gliding. Yet, crashes still happen to these "above average" pilots. I once showed photos taken while mountain soaring in the Canadian Rockies to a guy who raced motorcycles; his reaction was that glider flying was insanely dangerous (the photos were quite dramatic). I knew otherwise, because at all times I was within safe gliding distance of landable fields. Basically, perception is not reality. The more you fly, the safer you will be (within reason), and these type of articles suggest the opposite. Tom 
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